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  2. Medieval enclosure at Tours - Wikipedia

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    A century after the clouaison was constructed and only a few years after the significant renovations it had undergone, local officials and Louis XI were acutely aware of the necessity to expand the area suitable for construction. Between 1478 and 1481, the king initiated a project aimed at redirecting the Loire River toward the northern bank.

  3. Resilience (engineering and construction) - Wikipedia

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    A home in Gilchrist, Texas, designed to resist flood waters survived Hurricane Ike in 2008.. In the fields of engineering and construction, resilience is the ability to absorb or avoid damage without suffering complete failure and is an objective of design, maintenance and restoration for buildings and infrastructure, as well as communities.

  4. Kath kuni architecture - Wikipedia

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    Kath-Kuni is an indigenous construction technique prevalent in the isolated hills of northern India, especially in the region of Himachal Pradesh Kath is derived from the Sanskrit word kāshth meaning wood and kuni from the word kona meaning corner. It also goes by other names such as kath-kona, kath-ki-kanni in Sarahan region

  5. Warforged - Wikipedia

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    Warforged are also capable of modifying their bodies to some extent after construction, represented by prestige classes such as the warforged juggernaut [10] (an aloof warrior who becomes more like a golem), the reforged [8] (a socialite who becomes more like a living creature) and the landforged walker [9] (a druid who coaxes the growth of ...

  6. Sampoong Department Store collapse - Wikipedia

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    Construction on the store began in 1987 and was completed in 1990. The company initially contracted to build the structure withdrew after the chairman of Sampoong Group's construction division, Lee Joon, demanded changes to the concrete support columns that introduced structural concerns. Lee Joon ultimately used his own company to complete ...

  7. 5 Service Battalion - Wikipedia

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    5 Service Battalion (5 Svc Bn), or 5 e Bataillon des services (5 Bon Svc) in French, is a deployable field unit of the Canadian Forces.It provides second and limited third line Combat Service Support to units throughout 2nd Canadian Division (2 CA Div). [1]

  8. History of construction - Wikipedia

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    The International Congress on Construction History is held every three years, with the First International Congress on Construction History held in Madrid in 2003. [31] This has been followed by editions held in Queens College, Cambridge, England (2006), Cottbus (2009), Paris (2012), Chicago (2015), Brussels (2018), and Lisbon (2021).

  9. Earthquake-resistant structures - Wikipedia

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    Concurrent shake-table testing of two or more building models is a vivid, persuasive and effective way to validate earthquake engineering solutions experimentally.. Thus, two wooden houses built before adoption of the 1981 Japanese Building Code were moved to E-Defense [5] for testing.