Chapter 6
I Construction During The Settlement Years
II The Use Of Timber As A Structural Material
III Structural Steel
IV Concrete Technology
V Housing
VI Industrialised Pre-cast Concrete Housing
VII Ports And Harbours
VIII Roads
IX Heavy Foundations
X Bridges
XI Sewerage
XII Water Engineering
i Pipelines
ii Tunnels
iii Dams
iv Power Stations
XIII Railways
XIV Major Buildings
XV Airports
XVI Thermal Power Stations
XVII Materials Handling
XVIII Oil Industry
XIX The Snowy Mountains Scheme
XX The Sydney Opera House
XXI The Sydney Harbour Bridge
XXII Hamersley Iron
XXIII North West Shelf
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In Australia the technology of water engineering has been largely borrowed from overseas experience. There are, however, many examples of the adaption of old ideas to new and unusual situations, as well as the extrapolation of previous experience to cover works of greater size or magnitude. Special factors which have influenced the technology of water engineering in Australia are the extremes of the climate with droughts alternating between floods, the small population particularly in the early years of European settlement, the cost of transport and the distance from industrial bases. Some examples of differing technologies and how they have been influenced by the prevailing circumstances are given in the following section.
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