One of the most ghoulish-yet-wise sayings we’ve ever heard is “Earthquakes don’t kill people, buildings do.” (Or, a bit more accurately, “poorly constructed buildings do.”) So as soon as we heard news of Haiti’s latest natural catastrophe yesterday, we knew the death toll would be high. There is little chance that the nation’s relatively weak […]
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The Terrible Predictability of It All
January 13th, 2010 · 5 Comments
Tags:California·concrete·earthquakes·engineering·Haiti·Iran·natural disasters
Do You Know These Master Builders?
June 23rd, 2009 · Comments Off on Do You Know These Master Builders?
Rick Yelton, editor-in-chief of The Concrete Producer, has obviously been feeling nostalgic of late, a sentiment spurred by his discovery of an old box of photos. The picture above, he informs us, is of his graduating class from a 1987 Master Builders conference. In the immortal words of that radio DJ from This is Spinal […]
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