Why we stopped building cut and cover
We used to dig up roads to put trains underneath – cheaply. Ever-better tunnel boring machines have made the disruption this causes unnecessary.
Brian Potter is the author of the newsletter Construction Physics.
We used to dig up roads to put trains underneath – cheaply. Ever-better tunnel boring machines have made the disruption this causes unnecessary.
Americans famously love to sue one another. Are out of control product liability lawsuits the to blame for the crash of the personal aviation industry?
The height of skyscrapers is limited by physical, economic and regulatory barriers, but we should want to overcome them and build taller. Here’s how we can do it.