English in Civil ConstructionUnit 1. Construction documents. 92 Unit 2. Health and safety. 98 Unit 3. Civil construction. 104 Unit 4. The building team. 111 Unit 5. Construction materials. 117 Unit 6. Building stones. 124 Unit 7. Concrete. 129 Unit 8. Strip foundations. 133 English in Computer-aided Design. Unit 1. The digital age. 137 Unit 2. Computers for the disabled. 142 Unit 3. What is a computer?. 148 Unit 4. What is inside a PC system?. 154 Unit 5. Computer languages. 160 English in Highway Engineering. Unit 1. Problematic passion of having a car. 166 Unit 2. How traffic problems can be solved. 172 Unit 3. Hurricane landfall site protection. 178 Unit 4. Right-of-Way. 184 Unit 5. Road surface. 190 English in Land Cadaster. Unit 1. Land use planning. 197 Unit 2. The types of land use planning. 203 Unit 3. What is land cadastre. 208 Unit 4. Role of the government in land cadastre. 214 Unit 5. Problem of automating land records. 220 English in Quality Management. Unit 1. Occupation or profession?. 227 Unit 2. Getting the right staff. 232 Unit 3. Forecasting. 236 Unit 4.Optical instruments. 241 Unit 5. Reinforced -concrete productiоn. 246 English in Railway Construction. Unit 1. Eurostar tops 10 million passengers. 251 Unit 2. Houston opens second light rail line. 257 Unit 3.Railway stations. 263 Unit 4. Railway track construction. 269 Unit 5. Double-deck train concept 276 English in Railway Maintenance. Unit 1. Earth track solutions – rails sleeper replacement, track maintenance and construction. 283 Unit 2. Network Rail company. 291 Unit 3. Network Rail company. 297 Unit 4. Sperry Rail - rail flaw detection systems. 303 Unit 5. Sperry Rail - rail flaw detection systems. 310 English in Tunnel Engineering. Unit 1. Tunnels. 318 Unit 2. History of tunneling. 325 Unit 3. The Channel Tunnel. 333 Unit 4. Tunnel jobs. 343 Unit 5. Tunnel construction techniques. 354 Unit 6. Design and construction methods. 363 English in Bridge Engineering. Unit 1. Bridges Classification.
Vocabulary. mention - упоминать in a wide sense - в широком смысле provide a crossing over - обеспечить возможность пересечения be classified - классифицироваться function - функция reinforced concrete - железобетон сable-stayed - вантовый include - включать flexible - гнущийся rigid - негнущийся service life - срок службы It has already been mentioned that bridges in a wide sense of this term mean constructional works comprising a superstructure and a substructure. In a narrow sense this term means a structure built to provide a crossing over a river. In technical literature bridges are classified according to their indications as follows:
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