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Sunday September 24, 2006

North Carolina Civil Engineering Trails

This past week the North Carolina Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers  issued its North Carolina Infrastructure Report Card 2006. See my write-up of this in the Physical and Engineering News Blog.

While looking through the NC Section's website, I came across another travel tip to share. My last one was on NC county fairs. If you like visiting impressive civil engineering sites like dams, tunnels, bridges, and skyscrapers, the NC Section has a site called Civil Engineering Trails with an interactive map of interesting civil engineering sites across the state.

Large cities like Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham, Wilmington, and Asheville have city zoom maps to show all the sites in their locations. Sadly the links for the Raleigh, Durham and Wlmington city zooms are broken.

North Carolina isn't world famous for its civil engineering, but there are five skyscrapers documented in Charlotte; and around the state you will find three dams, some pretty interesting bridges, and some impressive domes.
Posted by orion Sep 24 2006, 10:21:40 AM EDT Permalink Comments [0]