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	Built in America - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/ This collection includes digitized images of measured drawings, black-and-white photographs, color transparencies, photo captions, data pages including written histories, and supplemental materials. From The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER).
	Construction History Society - http://www.constructionhistory.co.uk/ Exists to focus the attention of the construction industry and associated professions on the importance of preserving the records of our built environment. Includes membership details, newsletter, journal and events.
	Engineering Timelines Map of The British Isles - http://www.engineering-timelines.com/ Searchable data on significant projects and engineers in the British Isles.
	The Jerwood Photography Project - Making the Modern World - http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/photographicproject/modernworld.html A project to make accessible and preserve the British Library's photographic collection which records the progress of early construction projects. Includes samples from the collection.
	Cruquius Site - http://www.cruquiusmuseum.nl/ Group of volunteers restoring and maintaining one of the pumping stations which drained the Haarlemmermeer. Site describes the history, the technology, and the restoration.

	The Surveyors Historical Society - http://www.surveyorshistoricalsociety.com/ Dedicated to the preservation of historical surveying instruments, artifacts, records and memorabilia and educating the general public about the history of surveying.
	The National History Committee of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering - http://www.ryerson.ca/~amackenz/history/ Record for preservation, significant works of earlier generations of civil engineers. Includes illustrated listings of historic sites.
	Syllabus of Lectures on Civil Engineering in the University of Georgia - http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=AJQ7546 Facsimile of this 1853 publication by Charles Francis McCay. Provides an interesting insight into early engineering education.
	History and Heritage of Civil Engineering - http://www.asce.org/history/hp_main.html Features landmark projects, notable engineers, image library and resources guide. Provided by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
	Canadian Civil Engineering History & Heritage - http://collections.ic.gc.ca/civileng/eng/ Features historic sites by structure type and engineers who made a significant impact on civil engineering in Canada.

	Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Engineering Construction and Building - http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/310.html Covers a range of topics including roads and bridges, ports and harbours, and construction during the settlement period. From the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.
	Civil Engineering and Public Works. - http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=AGL5111 Full text of this 1870 publication by William Blake. Reports on the 1867 Paris Universal Exposition. Includes topics such as construction materials and the Suez maritime canal.
	Pocket-Book for Railroad and Civil Engineers - http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=AJS1974 Facsimile of an early calculation assistant which contained methods for laying out railroad curves, switches, frog angles, and crossings, the staking out of work, levelling, and the calculation of cuttings and embankments. Produced by Oliver Byrne in 1864.

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