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African Seed Bank Built From Recycled Materials

Natural Building

On this day, a group of men and women, old and young, are busy working at a construction site. The ”construction workers” are mostly farmers, agricultural workers, and a few masons from around the area. This particular building is a seed bank in the compound that hosts Seed Savers Network. See www.nation.co.ke

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Learning From Japan's Off-Site Construction Experience

Pro Builder

Learning From Japan's Off-Site Construction Experience ibush Tue, 04/18/2023 - 07:55 Insights into how the U.S. might learn from Japan in overcoming barriers and challenges to off-site construction To help assess the U.S. delegation, including representatives from the U.S.

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How to keep airports functional during construction

BD+C

How to keep airports functional during construction 0 qpurcell Mon, 01/15/2024 - 09:56 Airports Gensler's aviation experts share new ideas about how to make the airport construction process better moving forward. For a brief but productive window, airport construction turned into a completely different game.

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NJ Firm Vericon Firm Banks On Its Growing Niches

ENR Construction

Contractor of the Year builds state-of-the-art facilities for road travelers and financial customers, expanding its market sectors.

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Don’t dream it’s over: Traveller readers reveal their travel dreams and inspiration

Construction Test

Last week in our ‘Don’t dream it’s over’ feature article, we invited you, the Traveller readers to help keep Australia’s travel dreams alive by sharing your own inspirational travel stories and images. As a veteran traveller for over 40 years, your travel writers certainly struck a chord with me.

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Plane travel and coronavirus: People are missing travel so much, they’re getting airline food delivered

Construction Test

The coronavirus pandemic has made us pine for travel – the booking, the downloading of the boarding pass, even the in-flight snacks. He says there are hundreds of clients eager to find buyers for millions of pounds of food originally slated for restaurant, hotel or travel and leisure businesses. We even miss the snacks.

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Coronavirus and travel: 20 things we never thought we’d miss about travelling

Construction Test

And all of those experiences that we travellers used to gripe about have suddenly begun to seem quite wonderful. Of course, we knew we would miss some things about travel. How about all of the dramas, all of the annoyances, all of the boredom that is the reality of travel? Long-haul travel was a luxury in itself.

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