But still, some (private) firm wins the design contract, and then some other (private) firm or (private) firms contract out the labor (or most of it) to do things like, environmental studies, surveying, accounting, pouring concrete, laying bricks, stretching wire, managing the people who do environmental studies, surveying, accounting, pouring concrete, laying bricks and stretching wire.
Dr. Uribe laid bricks and poured concrete by day while studying for the required U.S. licensing exams at night.
Instead of bricks, lightweight moulded concrete blocks are used for the walls.
SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) An eight-story building housing several garment factories collapsed near Bangladesh's capital Wednesday morning, killing at least 87 people and trapping many more in a jumbled mess of shattered concrete and bricks, officials said.
Just so we are clear about this particular waste let me explain directly from the European Topic Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production: CND waste includes soils, concrete, bricks, glass, wood, plasterboard, asbestos, metals and plastic.
Following the quake, investigators in Yunlin county discovered that three crumbled structures had been erected by a construction company that had used empty plastic bottles and tin cans as filler to save on concrete and bricks. (The owner was arrested.) In Dali, a massive apartment block suffered major damage: one of the 11-story buildings was uprooted from the ground and fell backward.
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They poured concrete, lugged bricks and cement and did metal work, with some clad in gloves and construction helmets.
Among the efforts, Chinese officials ordered new buildings to use concrete reinforced with steel, while older buildings were to be retrofitted with reinforced concrete and masonry bricks.
But whether turning the rocks into concrete or asphalt, or into pricier items like decorative bricks for walkways, Hanson makes a decent living.
The trick, if you can call it that, lies in the prefabrication of steel-and-concrete blocks that can be hoisted into position, just as bricks form a wall.
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