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One bulldozer turned into an 80-year family business, and the third generation still repeats what the founder said about working weekends
16+ hour, 7+ min ago (789+ words) Home - Construction - One bulldozer turned into an 80-year family business, and the third generation still repeats what the founder said about working weekends What keeps a small construction company alive for eight decades while equipment, contracts, and entire markets change…...
Jose, 64, bricklayer: they say the site is short of workers, then ask you to speak English to the bricks
18+ hour, 7+ min ago (763+ words) Home - Construction - Jose, 64, bricklayer: they say the site is short of workers, then ask you to speak English to the bricks Spain says it needs hundreds of thousands of additional construction workers. Yet José María, a 64-year-old senior bricklayer in…...
A former London Underground worker is warning every passenger about something he says nobody notices, and it is not the crowding
19+ hour, 22+ min ago (1040+ words) Home - Technology - A former London Underground worker is warning every passenger about something he says nobody notices, and it is not the crowding For most London commuters, the black grime inside the Tube is an unpleasant part of the daily…...
Ruben, carpenter: the shortage of trades is already showing, and the day only four or five of us are left we finally get recognised
21+ hour, 17+ min ago (886+ words) Home - Construction - Ruben, carpenter: the shortage of trades is already showing, and the day only four or five of us are left we finally get recognised A Spanish carpenter has put a blunt question to a labor market fascinated by…...
A trucker drove 14,000 kilometers in one month hauling soy to Santos, and what was left after costs is the part nobody posts
1+ day, 7+ min ago (960+ words) Home - Economy - A trucker drove 14,000 kilometers in one month hauling soy to Santos, and what was left after costs is the part nobody posts A Brazilian owner-operator hauling soybeans from Mato Grosso to the Port of Santosreportedly billed about $10,388 across…...
Big Boy, the largest working steam locomotive on earth, is stopping in Topeka, and what it takes to move it is absurd
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (869+ words) Home - Technology - Big Boy, the largest working steam locomotive on earth, is stopping in Topeka, and what it takes to move it is absurd Union Pacific’s Big Boy No. 4014 rolled into Topeka on July 23 for a tightly timed 30-minute stop…...
An electric train now carries its own power bank, and the stretch it was built for has no overhead wires at all
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (672+ words) Home - Technology - An electric train now carries its own power bank, and the stretch it was built for has no overhead wires at all A white BYD Atto 3 towing two large solar panels along the Medan-Binjai road in Indonesia looked…...
A couple left a trailer and self-built a 3,600-square-foot home for 410,000 dollars after contractors quoted 800,000
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (1014+ words) Home - Construction - A couple left a trailer and self-built a 3,600-square-foot home for 410,000 dollars after contractors quoted 800,000 A South Dakota couple turned more than six years of low-cost trailer living into the financial runway for a much bigger move. Allison…...
Cesar Franco, engineer: spending hundreds of millions so three high-speed trains a day can run is a mistake
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (676+ words) Home - Economy - Cesar Franco, engineer: spending hundreds of millions so three high-speed trains a day can run is a mistake Spain’s high-speed rail system is one of the country’s clearest engineering successes. But industrial engineer and university program director César…...
A boring machine as heavy as 500 elephants is going down to dig the first undersea stretch of India's bullet train
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (799+ words) Home - Construction - A boring machine as heavy as 500 elephants is going down to dig the first undersea stretch of India’s bullet train How do you bring a bullet train into Mumbai without carving up streets already packed with traffic? India’s…...