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The Original Ice Road Truckers: 15th-century Chinese workers used frozen paths to move 100-ton stones
Get the History channel on the phone because we’ve got a great idea for their next reality series. A new engineering study delves into the mammoth task Chinese workers in the 15th Century faced in building the Forbidden City and the findings shed light on a brilliant tactic. The city was built with massive stones, […]
November 18, 2013
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Artist sculpts 12-ton “Phoenix” from construction debris
Artist Xu Bing spent 20 years away from his homeland of China, living and working in New York City. However, when he returned, the China he found was completely transformed. Urban landscapes had appeared with gleaming skylines, symbols of the country’s rapid industrial and socioeconomic evolution. Bing decided to visit a construction site to see […]
August 5, 2013
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Bees on backhoe a buzzkill at Toronto construction site
Construction workers at Toronto’s Union Station experienced an odd disruption Wednesday when a colony of urban honey bees swarmed their jobsite, according to The Toronto Star. Thousands of bees swarmed the site, where a revitalization of the century-old Toronto subway station is underway, before settling on a backhoe. Toronto Transit Commission spokesman Brad Ross said […]
June 27, 2013
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Construction photos of NYC’s Second Avenue Subway are otherworldly
“When you look at my pictures, you do get a sense that you’re in the center of the Earth. Sometimes it’s like another planet.” That’s what Patrick Cashin, a staff photographer for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of New York, told Flickr when the photo sharing website recently interviewed him for a blog post on the astounding photographs […]
June 17, 2013
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Construction on LA’s 405 freeway impacts Jewish community’s observation of Sabbath
Ongoing construction on the 405 Freeway in Los Angeles is impacting the Sabbath activities of the city’s Jewish community, according to an interesting report from the Los Angeles Times. To understand the problem the community faces, it’s helpful to first understand why the roadway under construction is so important to them. The 405, and two other […]
June 17, 2013
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Charleston construction crew finds 27 graves beneath jobsite
While working at the site of a renovation of Gaillard Auditorium in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, construction workers found 27 graves, the Associated Press reported. The graves were arranged in two even rows and were uncovered after removing tons of dirt that previously laid beneath a parking lot. There is no record of a cemetery […]
February 20, 2013
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