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Underwater Construction

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  Underwater Construction Welcome back to Civil Adda  Hi friends,  So far we have discussed many interesting topics.   In the today's post of  Civil Adda  we are going to learn about something that is related to constructions, constructions that are carried out in water.  Have you ever thought of how constructions are carried out in the water? like that of bridges, dams etc.,  How foundations are laid in water?  And what are the problems that are posed by water during construction work?   All such interesting things are going to be discussed in this post of Underwater Construction .  So at first what is Underwater Construction?      As we all know any construction that is laid in water comes under underwater construction, it may be a tunnel, a bridge, dams or some other. As we think of a construction, concrete, foundations, construction technology etc., are some of the aspects that come to our mind. And so we are going to deal about all

How megaliths were moved?

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Ancient Construction Techniques Hello friends, You all might have seen many ancient construction wonders like  Pyramids of Egypt, Forbidden City of China, Great Wall of China, Angkor wat etc... But have you ever thought of how such massive blocks of stones are moved or lifted to the construction site? Yeah, in the today's post we are going to discuss some such interesting techniques used by our ancient engineers.let us head to the topic. Forbidden City   As a matter of fact, the construction work of Forbidden City took 14 years to get completed.Some of the stones used for this construction weighs hundreds of tons which were quarried from the nearby quarry which is 70km away. So the question we are getting is how did they move them to construction site from the quarry? For this, the engineers of those times devised many plans. One of the down to earth technique is ice lubrication .During winters they use to lubricate the ice roads with water.Whic