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Transform Your Garage: 10 Simple DIY Upgrades for a More Functional Home Space

UK Construction Blog

For example, a workshop requires durable flooring and ample workbench space, while a gym needs proper ventilation and impact-resistant flooring. Create a detailed floor plan with these measurements to help visualise potential layouts and identify space constraints. Carry out vertical storage solutions to maximise floor space.

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The Start of Celebration: the 2023 Yearbook of Engineering Achievement

Civil + Structural Engineer

It features elements that maximize the safety, security, and efficiency of the travel process including 100 percent automated screening lanes, 100 percent facial recognition “e-gates” for international departure, an innovative landside terminal design, and 100 percent trackable RFID Independent Carrier System.

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Transforming Your Basement with Bench Footing

UK Construction Blog

Bench footing helps prevent cracking and settling issues that damage drywall, tile, and flooring over time. By excavating and pouring concrete footings along the basement’s perimeter walls, you create a solid base to build upon. Unlike a concrete slab floor, bench footing maintains the basement’s drainage system.

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Hollow Block | Disadvantages of Hollow Block | Advantages of Hollow Block | Hollow Concrete Block Size | Application of Hollow Block

CivilJungle

These hollow blocks enable the implementation of thinner walls, which eventually lead to increased floor space because the air space in the block is 25% of the total area of the block, saving the material. The joints in these blocks need less cement mortar, little to no plastering, thereby accelerating the building process.

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DIY Pool Construction: What To Know

CCR Magazine

Building a customized pool requires proper planning, tools, and persistent work, but completing a DIY project saves substantially on professional labor costs. Why Build a Pool? Gunite’s principal construction component is concrete, spray-applied over rebar frames and left to cure rock-solid.

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TCC’s judgment in Martlet v Mulalley, a cladding fire safety dispute

Practical Law Construction

They are a consequence of the tragic fire at Grenfell Tower in June 2017, which led to a wave of inspections, investigations and scrutiny across the UK as building owners sought to ascertain whether or not their buildings were similarly defective. Martlet v Mulalley: background. The dispute.

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The Strawtegi CO2ttage in Salt Lake City

Natural Building

The Strawtegi CO2ttage broke ground in October, 2021, as the first permitted structure in the U.S. This net-zero carbon, modular, straw panel Accessory Dwelling Unit in Salt Lake City, Utah, is the first demonstration project and test build of Strawtegi, Inc. She studied Chris Magwood’s book on building straw panels.