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High search overlap on dam engineering, tunnel construction methods, and airport runway engineering (97% search match) and strong content alignment around civil engineering topics (85% content match), making it a direct audience and topic competitor to Practical Engineering.
Shares core civil and structural engineering topics (queries like civil engineering topics and retaining wall design) with substantial audience interest (95% search match) though content is slightly more basic (75% content match) compared to Practical Engineering.
Focuses on water management infrastructure and treatment processes (85% search match) aligning with Practical Engineering's civil infrastructure scope, with solid content relevance (77% content match) though narrower in project-scale topics.
Centers on engineering systems such as pumping and fluid dynamics (100% search match), but exhibits more basic or differently styled content (68% content match), still attracting a similar audience to Practical Engineering.
Covers infrastructure engineering and large-scale projects like tunnel construction and runway engineering (65% search match) with substantial topic overlap (77% content match) but a broader emphasis on storytelling and visuals.
Focuses on structural engineering basics and foundation design (59% search match) with relevant technical content (73% content match) appealing to a similar audience seeking foundational civil engineering knowledge.
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Sabin Civil Engineering — 90% match, 7M subscribers; BEng Hielscher — 83% match, 59.3K subscribers; Concerning Reality — 81% match, 250K subscribers. They share a focus on civil, structural, and engineering topics with educational content similar to Practical Engineering.
Practical Engineering creates educational videos about civil and structural engineering topics, including concrete, dams, spillways, tunnels, and infrastructure, as reflected in video titles like The Wild Engineering of Earthquake Isolation, So You Want to Build a Tunnel..., Do Retention Ponds Actually Work?, The Hidden Engineering of Runways, and Recreating an Ancient Pump. The channel uploads about 0.6 videos per week, with an average of approximately 1.3 million views per video.
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