construction

A lab worker removes crane hoist from a load of rebar used to construct full-scale buildings and bridge spans that are then pushed to the limit in field tests.
Infrastructure
This ‘earthquake lab’ is designing buildings to withstand natural disasters
A tiger crosses a road in India’s Ranthambore National Park.
Environment
GPS tracking could help tigers and traffic coexist across Asia
A man stand next to a machine with large slabs of wood.
The Big Fix
Building high-rises, hotels and stadiums out of wood — for climate’s sake
A view of the old quarter of Sanaa, Yemen, November 14, 2018.
Culture
UNESCO project aims to save Sanaa’s historic mud brick towers
a man mixes cement in argentina
Business, Economics and Jobs
Prefabricated homes may fix Argentina’s housing crisis — and put builders out of work
Arts, Culture & Media
Design for the Real World: Excavator
A woman scrapes mortar off of a salvaged brick with a flat end of a chisel so the brick can be reused.
Culture
‘Symbolic rubble’ from crumbling adobe homes preserves the past and eases trauma after Mexico earthquake
Mexico City
Environment
When disaster hits home: The Mexico City quake one month on
The elevator at Washington DC's historic Old Post Office Pavilion.
Technology
Elevators are kind of a big deal
Global Scan
How the Hunger Games salute is inspiring Thai protesters
SS Kroonland is seen on 2 February 1915 at the Culebra Cut while transiting the Panama Canal. Kroonland was the largest passenger ship to that time to transit the canal.
Business, Economics and Jobs
The Big Canal
Excavator at work, in Bas Obispo, Panama Canal (1886).
Business, Economics and Jobs
Panama: A historical perspective
Business, Economics and Jobs
Irish and out of luck? Come to Canada, says the construction industry
Environment
King County in Washington trying to convert sewage to energy
Environment
New effort to dismantle aging U.S. dams aims to improve wildlife habitats
Environment
University professor developing environmentally conscious cement
Environment
Japan’s earthquake-resistant buildings
Greener Concrete
Sports
Placehacking: Scaling the Building Towering Above London’s Skyline
Conflict & Justice
Russia’s Blue Bucket Brigade Tackles Corruption
Smart Bridges
Global Politics
Mixed Reaction to Asbestos Sentencing: ‘Justice is Not a Cure’
Conflict & Justice
Asbestos Executives Found Guilty in Italy
New Transportation Bill Proposes Big Changes
Arts, Culture & Media
Garage Inventors
Removing Dams in Maine
Environment
An Indian Toilet Museum’s Public Health Mission
The Living on Earth Almanac
City Trees
Few Large Dams Still Being built
Cool Fix for a Hot Planet
The Greenest House
Smart Sewers/Note on Emerging Science
Re-designing Cities
Re-designing Cities
Green Day
Almanac/Deep Sea Travel
Almanac/Don’t Fence Me In
Deconstruction
Artificial Reef
City Trees
Anniversary of Edwards Dam Removal
Arts, Culture & Media
Cal-Earth
Arts, Culture & Media
The Heat Is On
Health & Medicine
A housing materials crisis ‘made in China’
Business, Economics and Jobs
Crumbling infrastructure
Bulldozer rampage in Jerusalem
Environment
Cool fix for a hot planet