The Little Book of Civilisation - Institution of Civil Engineers

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The Eden Project The Eden Project in St Austell, UK, was built on the site of a disused clay pit. It recreates different mini environments from around the world within domes. Civil engineers helped to design and build these domes (or ‘biomes’) to span over 100m without internal supports. This creates a huge open environment inside the biomes for plants to grow. The transparent hexagonal membranes of the biomes are made of ‘ethylene tetra fluoro ethylene co-polymer’ foil (ETFE), which can be recycled, is anti-static, cleans itself, lets in more light than glass and lasts at least 30 years. Find out more at www.edenproject.com www.anthonyhuntassociates.co.uk Key facts The site collects and recycles 20,000 bathtubs of water every day. The project used 85,000 tonnes of soil made from recycled waste to support over 5,000 types of plants. Photography: The Eden Project
Published by: Institution of Civil Engineers www.ice.org.uk Email: civilisation@ice.org.uk Supported by: Designed by Graven Images (www.graven.co.uk) Printed in the UK by J Thomson Colour Printers on recycled and environmentally friendly sustainable paper. © Institution of Civil Engineers 2005 ISBN 0-7277-3353-2 “When you understand civil engineering, you see the world differently”
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