By 1827, construction on the Dayton-Cincinnati canal began as a way to better transport goods from Dayton to Cincinnati.

In 2000 the United States Congress designated the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor to recognize the national significance of the canal system as the most successful and influential human-built waterway and one of the most important works of civil engineering and construction in North America.

The diversion of water to the Milhat ath Tharthar and the construction of a canal transferring water from the Tigris north of Baghdad to the Diyala River have permitted the irrigation of land outside the limits of the dikes and the expansion of settlement.

Between 1767 and 1774 Hutton had considerable close involvement with the construction of the Forth and Clyde canal, making full use of his geological knowledge, both as a shareholder and as a member of the committee of management, and attended meetings including extended site inspections of all the works.

Such construction of a canal along the route using the San Juan River was proposed in the early colonial era.

They favored construction of a canal through the isthmus of Panama.

Between 1939 and 1940, with war in Europe underway, a new study was made for the construction of a barge canal.

The construction of the canal would more than double Nicaragua's GDP based on the canal alone ( exclusive of other investments which were estimated in Nicaragua as a result of the canal's construction ).

Some sources suggest that construction of the canal would enable Nicaragua to become one of the wealthiest countries in Central America, and one of the wealthiest countries in Latin America in per capita terms.

Supporters believe that all Central America would benefit from the construction of the canal.

In 2009, Russian President Dimitry Medvedev suggested that Russia would be interested in pursuing the construction of the inter-oceanic waterway canal.

The treaty allowed for the construction of a canal and U. S. sovereignty over a strip of land wide and long, ( 16 kilometers by 80 kilometers ) on either side of the Panama Canal Zone.

The hand-over of the canal and military installations by the US has given rise to new construction projects.

These measures are intended to allow the expanded canal to operate without the construction of new reservoirs.

Two hundred years after the construction of Ptolemy's canal, Cleopatra seems to have had no west-east waterway passage, because the Pelusiac branch of the Nile River, which had fed Ptolemy's west-east canal, had by that time dwindled, being choked with silt.

By the 8th century, a navigable canal existed between Old Cairo and the Red Sea, but accounts vary as to who ordered its construction — either Trajan or ' Amr ibn al -' As, or Omar the Great.

Napoleon had contemplated the construction of another, modern, north-south canal to join the Mediterranean and Red Sea.

After the United Kingdom and the United States withdrew their pledge to support the construction of the Aswan Dam due to Egyptian overtures towards the Soviet Union, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the canal in 1956 and transferred it to the Suez Canal Authority, intending to finance the dam project using revenue from the canal.

Israel has declared that it will construct a railroad through the Negev desert, to compete with the Suez canal and that the construction will partly be financed by China.

Invasive species originated from the Red Sea and introduced into the Mediterranean by the construction of the canal have become a major component of the Mediterranean ecosystem, and have serious impacts on the Mediterranean ecology, endangering many local and endemic Mediterranean species.

The total operation was a construction project comparable in magnitude with the Panama Canal, but in 1917 time was in short supply ; ;

The best reason that can be advanced for the state adopting the practice was the advent of expanded highway construction during the 1920s and '30s.

Timothy Palmer, who invented and later patented the arch type of construction for wooden bridges, was the genius who planned and supervised the building of the Essex, or `` Deer Island '' bridge although the actual work was carried out under the direction of William Coombs, who received $300 as recompense.

The north portion of the Essex bridge was well worth the cost of construction, although it proved to be twice what was estimated in the beginning.

The final step was a vote for a $230,000 bond issue for the construction of a sewage system by the 1959 town meeting, later confirmed by a two-thirds vote at a special town meeting June 21, 1960.

The next step was construction by the Manchester Light and Power Company of a plant on the west bank of the Battenkill south of Union Street bridge.

At about the time the Marsden enterprise was getting under way, the Vail Light and Lumber Company started construction of a chair stock factory on the site of the present Bennington Co-operative Creamery, intending to use its surplus power for generating electricity.

Moreover, it is too readily forgotten that in the Republic what gave the initial impetus to Plato's excursus into the construction of an imaginary commonwealth with its ruling-class communism of goods, wives, and children, was his quest for a canon for the proper ordering of the individual human psyche ; ;

In September 1822 two companies of infantry arrived at the mouth of the St. Peter's River, the head of navigation on the Mississippi, and began construction of Fort St. Anthony which, upon completion, was renamed in honor of its commander, Colonel Josiah Snelling.

The construction was reasonably solid ; ;

A bond issue which would have provided some $3.5 million for construction of the two 900-student schools was defeated by district voters in January.

Milton and Rosella Lovett of Cranston were awarded $55,000 damages from the state in Superior Court yesterday for industrial property which they owned at 83 Atwells Ave., Providence, and which was condemned for use in construction of Interstate Route 95.

Another obstacle was the grammatical construction of Siddo.

The Pacific Railway Acts of 1862 and 1864 granted federal support for the construction of the United States ' First Transcontinental Railroad, which was completed in 1869.

Mug House, a typical cliff dwelling of the period, was home to around 100 people who shared 94 small rooms and eight kivas built right up against each other and sharing many of their walls ; builders in these areas maximized space in any way they could and no areas were considered off-limits to construction.

This crisis was addressed in 1992-93 by construction of a tunnel to divert water into the lake from the Arpa River.

This decrease comes despite the fact that an important component of the government stimulus package was to support the completion of ongoing construction projects.

In the 2000s, along with the construction sector, the services sector was the driving force behind Armenia's recent high economic growth rate.

Throughout ancient and medieval history, most architectural design and construction was carried out by artisans, such as stone masons and carpenters, rising to the role of master builder.

Babbage was never able to complete construction of any of his machines due to conflicts with his chief engineer and inadequate funding.

These symbols show the deep religiosity of Gaudi, who was inspired by the contemporaneous construction of his basilica to choose the theme of the holy family.

Iron was afterwards introduced for the construction of anchors, and an improvement was made by forming them with teeth, or " flukes ", to fasten themselves into the bottom.