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...Collaboration across the construction industry is also starting to happen, with property company Grosvenor teaming up with architects and engineers in 2021 to research ways to make construction more circular...
...the landscape, overshooting their rocky masonry bases....
...Brunelleschi took 16 years to build the dome, construction of which began in 1420....
...And so I was driving around the construction site in a massive pick-up truck with Gregg Robinson....
...Built as a factory and warehouse for the New York Consolidated Card Company, it then became a plumbing supplies store....
...This was a system of timber framing using vertical posts, beams and diagonal reinforcements all infilled with masonry....
...Almost immediately upon construction, cracks appeared — some large, none well-explained — in the walls of the nave....
...The organisation was established in 2014 by the family behind the Kone Corporation — makers of elevators, and one of Finland’s biggest companies....
...The company says Michael Palin’s recent UK television series on Iraq has generated significant interest....
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...“If you stopped construction today, you [would] run out of homes in less than two months. Crazy, huh?”...
...Naturally, his priority was construction: he demolished his grandfather’s store and levelled warehouses to the rear....
...But as with 18th-century masonry, appearances in 21st-century online work can be deceptive....
...The truck a few metres ahead on the road [under the bridge], was hit hard and damaged by masonry that fell down. The driver luckily survived but he came out with his face covered in blood.”...
...Amid these piles of construction materials, religious Hindus from across India gaze and take selfies as guides explain how the masonry will be used for a temple dedicated to Lord Ram — a Hindu deity who...
...The estate is now owned by his son Randle and his wife. Brooks has the impeccable accent and politeness of an English country squire. He drives the requisite battered red Land Rover....
...Forterra, the UK’s second largest brickmaker, has had a fairly tough time during its first few months as a public company, resorting to turning off the kilns at two sites as demand dropped, and now it has...
...The launch model cuts plasterboard, but Mr Sebhatu is working on blades for wood, ceramics, glass and masonry....
...“England is like Germany: construction schedules are precise, so everything leaving the workshop must be perfect.”...
...Homes can have masonry or mortar walls strengthened with wood or bamboo instead of steel....
...Those that venture closer are shielded from falling masonry by netting that encompasses much of the 2.5m sq ft building....
...“Britain is one of the largest importers of illegally felled timber in Europe,” says Bernard Planterose, director of North Woods, a Scottish company specialising in sustainable timber construction and a...
...US tool manufacturer Wilton wanted to give users in the construction, landscaping, masonry, mining and railway industries a safer sledgehammer, which could endure multiple overstrikes....
...AIR Worldwide, the catastrophe modelling agency, warned on Wednesday that residential buildings in the area featured wood-frame construction, more vulnerable than masonry....
...In 2005, a Bangladeshi garment factory building collapsed because of shoddy construction, killing scores of workers and injuring many more....
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