It takes several thousand years for layers and layers of plant waste to compress into a rich, black coal deposit. Undisturbed, that coal will only grow stronger within the Earth. Given enough time and ...

In another week or so, gravity will re-assert itself at 326 College Street in Burlington. For now, four 2-story wooden columns, each a yard-or-so wide, have no apparent means of support along the ...

Basket or border columns may not be something you have heard of or have tried, and you may be asking what a basket column is. My best description is a large wire basket with a coconut coir liner that ...

Crews working for the Washington State Department of Transportation (WDOT) began fieldwork in Lake Washington today to study the lakebed where support columns and anchors will be placed for a new SR ...

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