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Background The Mall, Gadong is a unique looking shopping and entertainment complex located in Brunei Darussalam. The one million square foot mall features an international hotel, retail shops, a cinema and commercial spaces. The developer spared no expense in executing his futuristic design. The mall was completed in 2004 using a membrane system to address … Read More
Improving Safety and Productivity with Abrasion-Resistant Concrete Background As a leader in flexible packaging in North America and as Canada’s largest printer, TC Transcontinental has proven to be in great demand. This was no less true in 2007, which prompted the company to modernize and optimize their printing network from coast to coast in North … Read More
Background The Seton Canal was constructed in the early 1950s to carry water from Seton Lake at the Seton Dam downstream to the Seton Powerhouse. The canal is an open, concrete-lined trapezoidal-shape, approximately 3850 m (12,600 ft.) in length. The canal had deteriorated over its 55 years in service and had severe large scale cracking … Read More
Background The City of Dammam is the capital of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia and the third largest city in the country after Riyadh and Jeddah. It is an important commercial hub and port in Saudi Arabia. When the King Fahed Dammam Road underpass, one of the city’s principal road arteries, was experiencing cracking … Read More
Background Founded in 1945, Wellcome is the regions’ longest-established supermarket chains and one of the largest in the region. Wellcome is owned by Jardine Matheson Holdings via its Dairy Farm subsidiary. It also operates supermarkets in the Republic of China under the same name. Failure of a conventional membrane system on the negative side walls … Read More
Background The Coquitlam Dam is located on the Coquitlam River, 15 km (9.3 mi) upstream from its confluence with the Fraser River near the city of Port Coquitlam. The Dam provides additional storage and flows, which are diverted via a tunnel to Buntzen Lake and then to the Buntzen Generating Station. Coquitlam Lake is also … Read More
Background The Boyden Tunnel is a pedestrian tunnel located at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMASS) . This passageway connects the athletic building with the schools’ practice fields. Deterioration and severe water intrusion within the tunnel forced the university to close it to pedestrian traffic. The tunnel measures 165’ long 10’ high and 15’ wide … Read More
Background Made possible through generous local donations, the Greenwich Family YMCA in Connecticut was granted construction approval of a new Olympic pool as the centerpiece for its new state of the art Olympic Aquatics Center. Completed earlier this year, the pool measures 50-meters by 25-meters (164 feet by 72 feet) and is opened for recreation, … Read More
Background Located on the Dubai waterfront, Dubai Drydocks is one of the largest in the world. The shipyard employs more than 5,000 workers and as many as 1,500 subcontractors. More than 5,000 vessels and oil rigs have been built, repaired and maintained at the facility since it opened in 1983. A vessel requiring repairs at … Read More
Background In 2006, a superhighway project in Sichuan province, China, became a major focus for the government. Spanning more than 180 km (112 mile), the new expressway was developed to run along the Yangtze River from Sichuan’s capital city Chengdu to Leshan. Construction of the superhighway involved building five pairs of tunnels in a mountainous … Read More