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Grouting for buildings: All you need to know! (+demo videos)

Building and Interiors

Why does it happen that newly constructed buildings develop problems of seepage, loose joints, or cracks over time? demo videos) appeared first on Building And Interiors. This happens usually because of the lack of proper grouting or the use of mortar instead of grout. The post Grouting for buildings: All you need to know!

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Developer holds Baltimore City hostage - can he be forced to develop?

Community Architect Daily

Can a developer be forced to develop a vacant lot? A lot that is only vacant because the developer decided to purchase and demolish a historic theater venue? A lot that has been sitting in the defunct status for 17 years, ever since the developer acquired it? It’s time to put up or shut up. Not these days, anyhow.

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Demo Permits Issued for bKL-Designed 1100 W. Grand

Chicago Architecture

Demolition permits have been issued for the 7 story mixed-use development at the intersection of W. The post Demo Permits Issued for bKL-Designed 1100 W. Grand Ave and N. Aberdeen St. See the article here. Grand appeared first on bKL Architecture.

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New concrete vaulted floor suggests path to cutting carbon emissions

Deezen

The multidisciplinary team has completed a full-scale demo of the floor, built inside a Cambridge University Civil Engineering Department facility, and hopes the innovation will be adopted by the construction industry to reduce its carbon emissions. Demo shows minimum 60 per cent reduction in emissions. The demo floor measures 4.5

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Vans installs skateable ramp at refurbished central London store

Deezen

American apparel and accessories brand Vans looked to its skateboarding heritage when developing the concept for its store on London's Oxford Street, which it has occupied since 2019. The ramp has a wall at one end.

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MIT engineers build load-bearing structures using tree forks instead of steel joints

Deezen

Discarded tree forks could replace load-bearing joints in architecture projects using a construction technique developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MIT's Digital Structures group has built a demo structure using tree forks as joints.

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Don’t demo this sad trio

Architecture Here and There

Two attempts to develop a hotel were blocked in 2020 and 2022. Goncalves wrote and passed legislation that forced the city to inform neighbors that demo permits were being processed for the three houses on Angell. No proposals have emerged as a possible replacement. Ed Bishop is my insurance agent, has been for decades.

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