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Quake-Damaged Building Implosion One for the Books | ENR.

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Banking & Credit Crisis. --> Companies. Book Reviews. Quake-Damaged Building Implosion One for the Books. Completed in 1986, the Radio Network House posed a challenge because its concrete structure was heavily reinforced to accommodate seismic loads. . Gulf Oil Spill. -->. Building Types. Construction Methods.

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Product Snapshot: Floor Laser and Riding Trowel | ENR.

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Banking & Credit Crisis. --> Companies. Book Reviews. This week we look at a self-leveling floor surface laser from Bosch and a rideable concrete trowel from Atlas Copco. Information is provided on construction projects in following stages in each issue of ENR: Planning , Contracts/Bids/Proposals and Bid/Proposal Dates.

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Patented Precast Shaves Costs on Korean Highway | ENR.

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Banking & Credit Crisis. --> Companies. Book Reviews. A French subcontractor is using a patented precast technique to build one of the worlds longest precast-concrete arch-tunnel sections at the site of a residential complex along South Koreas new Suwon-Kwangmyeong Expressway. m-tick reinforced-concrete base slab and span 12.6

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London Olympics Construction Is Safest in Recent Times | ENR.

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Banking & Credit Crisis. --> Companies. Book Reviews. Gibb showed a photo of the words “Olympics are painted in workers’ blood,” written by disgruntled construction workers on a concrete wall at an Olympic venue. Gulf Oil Spill. -->. Building Types. Construction Methods. Sustainability. Haiti Reconstruction.

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Pulse: 08/13/2012

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Banking & Credit Crisis. --> Companies. Book Reviews. The project entails the construction of a 541,667-sq-ft tilt-up concrete building. Bids/Contracts/Proposals. Bid/Proposal Dates. Keywords: Contract Award ; Bids ; Proposals ; Dodge Reports. -- Advertising --. Gulf Oil Spill. -->. Building Types.

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The Politics of Adobe in West Texas

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The couple bid $38,000 for the six-hundred-square-foot house at a local tax auction. Fathy’s approach to building required no wood, no concrete—just bricks made on-site from earth. Concrete was introduced into adobe construction throughout the Southwest at the turn of the twentieth century. Concrete is rigid.

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Pulse: 07/30/2012

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Banking & Credit Crisis. --> Companies. Book Reviews. Michigan The Edgewater Group is planning to build Harbor Village, a mixed-use development within the Harbor Shares community, located along the north bank of the St. Bids/Contracts/Proposals. Bid/Proposal Dates. Gulf Oil Spill. -->. Building Types. Associations.