Whenever a water body cuts through a roadway, engineers create bridges to make sure that the traffic on those roads is not obstructed. Imagine reversing these roles ,where a roadway runs across a busy waterway. In such a situation it is made sure that the waterway traffic as well as the roadway traffic is not hindered. For this task engineers come up with something called an Aqueduct . An aqueduct can be imagined as a water channel which helps in guiding the water flow ( specially at hindered paths) . It is a structure which is very frequently used around the world. But, in Netherlands the engineers and architects came up with a very interesting version of an Aqueduct, a water bridge. Let's try and get across this bridge in detail. The Veluwemeer Aqueduct water bridge :- This is a navigational aqueduct situated in the city of Harderwijk in eastern Netherlands. It is a water bridge that links two sections of a river with a channel of dimension 25m length and 19m breadth. This bridg...
Have you ever considered the possibility of existence of an underground tunnel between two countries divided by sea !? It seems impractical but this feat has already been achieved back in the 1990s . England and France are connected through an underground tunnel system below the English channel since 1994 called the English channel. Given the controversial history between the two countries , the formation of this megastructure proved to be very significant in improving the bilateral relationship of England and France. It also proved to be a boon for the businesses in both the nations. A project ,one of it's own kind was taken up by the engineers who were unaware of all the technical difficulties they will have to face and overcome. So let's dig into this without any further ado !! Where is the Channel tunnel? England and France are separated by a 34 kilometers stretch of English Channel. Beneath the sea bed of this English Channel exists the Channel tunnel connecting t...