Sections of a drill which broke through the roof of a rail tunnel came from a construction site above the ground, accident investigators have found.
To get the set onto the hotel's roof, the producers used a 300-foot construction crane.
Unibody construction, in which a vehicle's roof, door frames and floor pan are part of a unified, rigid structure, has made vehicles lighter and stiffer.
It might not make sense for homeowners with healthy roofs to invest in Powerhouse, but for people replacing their roofs or for new construction where the expectation is that a roof will last for 20 years or so it seems like a nobrainer to use Powerhouse.
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Private companies working on everything from the foundation to the roof of buildings are generating double-digit sales growth as the construction sector strengthens, according to data from Sageworks, a financial information company.
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Loud applause and cries of joy erupted from construction workers assembled on a temporary work platform on the roof of the building as the huge, silver spire was gently lowered and secured into place.
So too are various transport and construction projects: embarrassingly, the elaborate glass and metal roof for the main athletics stadium, designed by Santiago Calatrava, a renowned Spanish architect, may not be ready in time.
"Hopefully, the roof doesn't come off, " said Mr. Roberts, who works in construction.
The open site was vulnerable to Sandy's storm surge because it didn't have a roof, said Steve Plate, the Port Authority's director of World Trade Center construction.
The construction site consists of tidy stacks of flat-packed, prefabricated wall units, roof panels and other jumbo components trucked from Michigan and labeled and numbered like parts for a giant Ikea Akurum cabinet.
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Along with the 100-seat theater now nearing completion on the roof of the Vivian Beaumont at Lincoln Center and the 299-seat Theatre for a New Audience under construction within Brooklyn's BAM Cultural District both designed by New York architect Hugh Hardy it is also a gain for New York's theater scene, particularly that segment devoted to the city's teeming population of newcomers, strivers and on-the-verge or comeback talents.
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