Imagine you woke up one morning to find everything created by
engineers had disappeared. What would you see? No cars, no houses;
no phones, bridges or roads. No tunnels under tidal rivers, no
soaring skyscrapers. The impact that engineering has had on the
human experience is undeniable, but it is also often invisible. In
BUILT, structural engineer Roma Agrawal takes a unique look at how
construction has evolved from the mud huts of our ancestors to
skyscrapers of steel that reach hundreds of metres into the sky.
She unearths how engineers have tunnelled through kilometres of
solid mountains; how they've bridged across the widest and deepest
of rivers, and tamed Nature's precious - and elusive - water
resources. She tells vivid tales of the visionaries who created the
groundbreaking materials in the Pantheon's record-holding concrete
dome and the frame of the record-breaking Eiffel Tower. Through the
lens of an engineer, Roma examines tragedies like the collapse of
the Quebec Bridge, highlighting the precarious task of ensuring
people's safety they hold at every step. With colourful stories of
her life-long fascination with buildings - and her own hand-drawn
illustrations - Roma reveals the extraordinary secret lives of
structures.
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Wed, 3 Jul 2019 | Review
by: Tanya K.
Superficial and too much biogrpahical details.
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