Our cities are full of incredible engineering feats and most of us live with little idea of what we are looking at in the built environment, let alone how a new building goes up, what it is built upon or how it remains standing.
In this book Roma Agrawal uncovers the astonishing science behind her profession. Each of the eight chapters will tackle a great engineering challenge how we keep a building from falling down, or how a bridge is built to span vast distances explaining solutions from modern times, reaching back to the Romans and other ancient cultures who developed techniques still used today. Interweaving science, history, illustrations and personal stories, Roma will offer a new window into a subject that touches our everyday lives.
