Civil Engineering

California PATH Database

is a multi-disciplinary program with staff, faculty, and students from universities worldwide and cooperative projects with private industry, state and local agencies, and nonprofit institutions.

Design Manual for Roads and Bridges

contains information about current design standards relating to the design, assessment and operation of motorway and all-purpose trunk roads in the United Kingdom.

Hong Kong Energy End-use Data 2024 (associated data sets)

aims at providing an understanding of the energy consumption patterns and usages in Hong Kong.

OER Commons

is a free, online library for Open Educational Resources. Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning research materials that are free to access and openly licensed, potentially allowing anyone to use, adapt, and share them. They can include textbooks and course modules, lecture notes and syllabi, assignments, quizzes, and lab activities, and more.

Top Ten Civil Engineering Sites

provides top ten civil engineering sites, for example, Civil Engineering Jobs, Civil Simplified, etc.

Know the local engineering organisations:

• Association of Engineering Professionals in Society Ltd

• Hong Kong Institution of Engineers

• The Association of Consulting Engineers of Hong Kong

• The Association of Energy Engineers (Hong Kong Chapter)

Discover internet resources for research:

Engineering preprint servers

• arXiv e-print server
  is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for scholarly articles in the fields including computer science, electrical engineering and systems science.
• engrXiv Preprints
  is dedicated to the dissemination of engineering knowledge quickly and efficiently.
• Preprints.org
  is a multi-discipline platform providing preprint service. It is dedicated to making early versions of research outputs permanently available and citable.
• TechRxiv
  is a preprint server powered by IEEE and providing access to preprints in technology research.

Online Guide: Preprints

Other useful links

• Abbreviations.com
  is the world's largest and most comprehensive directory and search engine for acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms.

Special Access Hint (Google Scholar)