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Couple Build Incredible Handcrafted Tiny House
There’s nothing quite like a handcrafted home. A place where people have poured all their love and hard work into creating a unique and beautiful house that’s totally their own. This exquisitely built tiny house is just one of those homes. This DIY tiny house has...
How Tower Cranes are Built
You’re walking down the street and see a colossal tower crane. This giant structure seems as if it has always been there; however, it wasn’t when you passed the same road just a few days ago. It is quite surprising to see that happen in such little time. It might make...
The Woman Who Built The Brooklyn Bridge
To celebrate Women in Construction Week 2020, Bluebeam interviewed four employees at its recent “Women in Tech” event to get their perspectives on what it means to be a woman in the construction technology industry. Lilian Magallanes, Program Manager, Community...
Easy Cabin House: Easy to Assemble A-frame Cabin goes up in a Long Weekend
Brief While handy types can build an A-frame cabin themselves, the less DIY inclined who would rather follow a plan and have the materials supplied can do so with the Den Cabin Kit. Costing $21,000, it's claimed very easy to build even by amateurs. Insight...
London’s Floating Church: Floating Church Pops Its Top in a London Canal
Brief Denizen Works recently completed an unorthodox but very well executed floating church in London, England. The project brings to mind an old pop-top VW bus and is defined by a novel roof that can be lowered or raised depending on requirements. Insight...
4 Reasons Why You Need a Meeting Agenda
Laboratory Investigation of Sand and Water Inflow into a Hole of under-waterway Tunnels
Author(s) Fahmy Salah Fahmy Abdelhaleem, PhD Esam Eldeen Yousry Helal, PhD Abstract The effects of a cracked tunnel underneath a canal bed on water and sand inflow through the tunnel hole and distortion of the canal bed were experimentally examined. A circular...
Experimental Study on the Effect of Sediment Concentration on Trapezoidal Hydraulic Uump
Author(s) Saber Ebrahimiyan, MEng Hooman Hajikandi, PhD Mahmood Shafai Bejestan, PhD Saeed Jamali, PhD Ebrahim Asadi, PhD Abstract The effect of suspended sediment concentration on the characteristics of a hydraulic jump in a symmetrical trapezoidal channel was...
Boundary Shear Distribution in a Compound Channel with Differential Roughness
Author(s) Kamalini Devi, PhD Kishanjit Kumar Khatua, PhD Abstract This paper demonstrates the influence of differential roughness on the boundary shear distribution for compound open channels. A mathematical relationship is derived between the percentage shear...