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Parent topics
- Civil engineering [r]: A broad field of engineering dealing with the design, construction, and maintenance of fixed structures, including roads, buildings, airports, tunnels, dams, bridges, and water supply and sewage systems. [e]
- Construction [r]: Process that consists of the building or assembling of infrastructure. [e]
Subtopics
- Lifting equipment [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Crane (construction) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tow truck [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Overhead crane [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Elevator (construction) [r]: A mechanical device used for vertical transport. [e]
- Earthmoving equipment [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bulldozer [r]: A piece of construction equipment, with military applications, characterized by a movable blade for pushing earth or debris on the front of a tracked vehicle with great traction and power [e]
- Backhoe [r]: A piece of heavy construction equipment consisting of a combined shovel and bucket at the end of a powered, hinged boom; in use, the operator scoops earth or other material with the bucket, then draws it to the power source at the other end of the boom [e]
- Graders [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Front end loaders [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Drilling equipment [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pile driver [r]: Mechanical device used to drive piles into soil to provide foundation support for buildings or other structures. [e]
- Rock drill [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Oil drills [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Post diggers [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Tunnel boring machine [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pneumatic hammer [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Concrete and paving equipment [r]: Add brief definition or description
