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57-Story Skyscraper Built in 19 days!
Broad Sustainable Building, a construction company in China, recently built a 57-floor, 2-million-square-foot skyscraper in just 19 days. That is an average of three floors per day. The building has 1...
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The Cost of Transforming Africa's Wet Savannas into Cropland
The world’s population is rising and with it are food demands. Policymakers are targeting Africa’s wet savannas as expendable areas easily converted into cropland. A study out from Princet...
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Japanese Seismic Success Serves as example to Northwest
Constructed in 2006, just outside Kadonowaki, Japan, the Ishinomaki Red Cross Hospital stands as a monument to civil engineering. The five-story, 402-bed hospital operated at full capacity during and...
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Thailand innovative home floats in case of flooding
The two storey home in a Thai neighborhood for factory workers has a special feature that is not directly visible to the average eye. Hidden in the home's foundation is a system that allows it to floa...
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[Video]: Enjoy a drone flight in Crossrail's tunnels!
For the first time, BBC was allowed to fly a drone along Crossrail's tunnels and the video is provided below! For the first time, BBC was allowed to fly a drone along Crossrail's tunnels and th...
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World's Tallest Wooden Structure to be Built Next Year
At 270-feet and €60M plans for the world’s tallest wooden structure, to be built next year, have been unveiled. Designed by Rudiger Lainer and Partner the wooden skyscraper will be built in the Seesta...
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New Delhi: 19 TBMs in the metro network expansion!
The Indian capital can be now considered, on a global scale, as one the cities where the largest tunneling project has ever been undertaken. According to the Delhi Metro officials this is not an under...
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Martian mountain soil sample analysis performed in place!
NASA's Curiosity Mars team has recently obtained a second soil sample from an outcrop of the Murray formation, the geological unit of Mount Sharp on Mars. Through analysis of the soil samples, scienti...
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Structural Art for Rent in Essex County
Intentionally designed to appear as four separate structures and the many historic pilgrimage chapels in the region; A House for Essex, designed by FAT (Fashion Architecture Taste) in collaboration wi...
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Geotechnical works in progress for Doha metro
Geotechnical investigations are on their way for the metro line in Doha. The $1.37 million project is about to complete and soil parameters will soon be delivered to rail line designers. Geotechnical...
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