The Construction Thread

[thør]

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[thør]

When the power trowel goes wild.

 

[thør]

http://i.cbc.ca/1.3791600.1475621271!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/inuvik-rcmp-detachment.JPG

Grand opening

 

[Saint Peter]

Nice garage!

 

[thør]

Nice garage!

That's planned off to the left hand side of the building. Maybe, out of the photo.

 

[thør]

https://assets.dnainfo.com/photo/2016/10/1475850924-276211/extralarge.jpg

https://assets.dnainfo.com/photo/2016/10/1475850862-276209/extralarge.jpg

https://assets.dnainfo.com/photo/2016/10/1475850721-276205/extralarge.jpg

If you've been on the Red Line in Chicago, you've been here.

 

[thør]

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Drilling for heat in Iceland.

 

[Saint Peter]

expensive tubes

 

[trysail]

Drilling for geothermal energy in Iceland

Drilling for heat in Iceland.

It's a wonderful resource to have.


Unfortunately it has a bad habit of association with active volcanoes and earthquakes.


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[thør]

expensive tubes

Could be really expensive, depending upon the tech that they use to get the heat to the surface.

 

[thør]

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Chernobyl’s New Safe Confinement

 

[Saint Peter]

74 dead.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-collapse-idUSKBN13K06U

http://s2.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20161125&t=2&i=1163009744&w=&fh=&fw=&ll=780&pl=468&sq=&r=LYNXMPECAO03F

 

[timreh]

74 dead.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-collapse-idUSKBN13K06U

http://s2.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20161125&t=2&i=1163009744&w=&fh=&fw=&ll=780&pl=468&sq=&r=LYNXMPECAO03F

My guess is someone didn't take the 30 hour course?

 

[Lancecastor]

My backyard shed construction maintained a steady zero days without injury throughout the build.

 

[Saint Peter]

My guess is someone didn't take the 30 hour course?

I have no idea how the trades are trained and certified there. I doubt the OSHA 30 would have helped much. 74 dead workers are not dead because of failing to wear their safety glasses.

 

[chillywilly2]

That sucks..condolences for the families.

Now, why are they building coal fired plants when everybody else is shutting them down

 

[chillywilly2]

My backyard shed construction maintained a steady zero days without injury throughout the build.

Kept hitting your thumb with the hammer did you?

 

[thør]

https://68.media.tumblr.com/563fc7432241052e41e7558306b67646/tumblr_o7udc6h7NX1qgpvyjo1_1280.jpg

 

[NeedToSubmit]

...for construction workers, contractors, engineers, architects, tradespeople, and anyone else who works with their hands or makes money off of those that do.

Tell tall tales, bitch about the industry, post pix of jobs you've done, whatever.


Anything goes.

So I'm looking at the latest issue of my International magazine. In the "Safety and Health Department Report", there's a long screed about how we all need to vote Democrat this election. It ends with this:

...Now I know that some of our good union members vote Republican for one reason or another, whether it be the gun issue, abortion, gay rights, or whatever your issues are...

The "gay rights" thing is what caught my eye. Could anyone be such a fucking tool as to vote for the reverse side of the buttered bread just because of someone else's hole preference?

Yikes.

Hello Everyone,

Awesome thread!

I work in London as an associate for a design consultancy. To add a bit of diversity to the conversation I am a female engineer.

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[Saint Peter]

What type of designs?

 

[thør]

What type of designs?

More importantly, what engineering discipline?

 

[Saint Peter]

More importantly, what engineering discipline?

That was the follow up question.

I am sure if she tells us she designs "ultra top secret Alaskan doodads" there will be trouble.

Big trouble.

 

[thør]

That was the follow up question.

I am sure if she tells us she designs "ultra top secret Alaskan doodads" there will be trouble.

Big trouble.

Then, I prolly know her.

 

[Saint Peter]

Then, I prolly know her.

The painfully small world of ultra top secret Alaskan doodad design.

 

[thør]

The painfully small world of ultra top secret Alaskan doodad design.

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