The document discusses the history of culvert box construction, tracing it back to ancient Mesopotamian civilizations like the Babylonians and Assyrians who constructed underground canals and culverts out of stone or clay to manage water flow for irrigation. It provides pictures showing the stages of modern box culvert construction, as well as an example of a collapsed culvert, highlighting important problems that can occur.

2. Culvert Box Construction Stages
Site Selection Criteria and Solution Suggestions
Important Problems
Information
culvert box construction history

3. Box culvert picture1[1]

4. The history of culvert box construction
can be traced back to ancient
civilizations In ancient Mesopotamia,
which is modern-day Iraq, the
Babylonians and Assyrians constructed
underground canals and culverts to
manage water flow for irrigation
purposes. These structures were
typically made of stone or clay[3].

5. Figure 2: Box culvert construction [2]

6. Figure 3: box culvert construction[3].

8. Finger 4: box culvert collapsed along the road[4]