This title discusses how damns are built, including engineering, design and construction.

This title discusses how sports stadiums are built, including engineering, design and construction.

This title discusses how airports are built, from runway design and construction to terminal and security.

This title discusses how schools are built, including engineering, design and construction.

This title discusses how tunnels are built, from planning and excavation to construction to site design.

Explores the story of Federal contributions to dam planning, design, and construction.

Andrew J. Dunar and Dennis McBride skillfully interweave eyewitness accounts of the building of Hoover Dam. These stories create the richest existing portrait of the building of Hoover Dam and its tremendous effect on the lives of those involved in its creation: the gritty, sometimes grisly realities of living in cardboard boxes and tents during several of the hottest Southern Nevada summers on record; the fearsome carbon monoxide deaths of tunnel builders who, it was claimed, had died of "pneumonia"; the uproarious life of nearby Las Vegas versus the tightly controlled existence of the workers in the built-overnight confines of Boulder City; and of course the astounding accomplishment of building the Dam itself and completing the task not only early but under budget!