Built - Hardcover

Agrawal, Roma

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1408870363 ISBN 13: 9781408870365

Publisher: Bloomsbury, 2018

Synopsis

Roma Agrawal, award-winning structural engineer and broadcaster, reveals the hidden stories behind our structures. 

'The buildings, bridges and tunnels around us are born from breathtaking human ingenuity,' she explains. 'once you hear their secret stories, you'll never see your surroundings in the same way again .' 

About this title

From the Back Cover

Why do skyscrapers sway?
Can materials really repair themselves?
Can one person cause a bridge to collapse?

Star structural engineer Roma Agrawal unravelsthese mysteries. 'The structures around us are born from breathtaking humaningenuity,' she explains. 'once you hear their secret stories, you'll never seeyour surroundings in the same way again .'

Read this book, and you'll see your world throughnew eyes - the eyes of an engineer.

From the Inside Flap

Imagine you woke up one morning, and everything created by engineers had disappeared.What would you see?

No cars, no houses; no phones, bridges or roads. No tunnelsunder tidal rivers, no soaring skyscrapers. The impact that engineering has hadon the human experience is undeniable, but it is also often invisible.

In BUILT, structural engineer Roma Agrawal takes a unique look at how construction has evolved from the mud huts of our ancestors to skyscrapers of steel that reach hundreds of metres into the sky. She unearths how engineers have tunnelled through kilometres of solid mountains; how they've bridged across the widest and deepest of rivers, and tamed Nature's precious - and elusive -water resources. She tells vivid tales of the visionaries who created the groundbreaking materials used in the Pantheon's record-holding concrete dome, and the frame of the record-breaking Eiffel Tower. Through the lens of an engineer, Roma examines tragedies like the collapse of the Quebec Bridge, highlighting the precarious task of ensuring people's safety they hold at every step.

With colourful stories of her life-long fascination with buildings- and her own hand-drawn illustrations - Roma reveals the extraordinary secret livesof structures.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1408870363
• ISBN 13: 9781408870365
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320