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Concrete: How It’s Done in the Third World, not just Bricks and Mortar

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Concrete: Crazy Construction Techniques!

Concrete is universally used as a pretty standard construction material.

But one thing that amazes me about how people build stuff in the Third World is how construction workers apply their own take on Concreting Techniques.  That’s because there’s no money to create or enforce any safety standards, so they come up with often inventive and mind blowing ways to construct new buildings.

Case Study One: Cementing in Africa, Part 1

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1xXKasK7rY[/youtube]

Case Study Two: Throwing the Cement – WITH the shovel!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGj-KkjwXJY[/youtube]

Case Study Three: Brick Transport in Bangladesh

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV-iP1jSMlI[/youtube]

Watching these Travel Videos makes me so more grateful that I was lucky enough to be born in the first world.  Makes you think, doesn’t it?

I’m not sure if any of these characters have read Working with Concrete!


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5 thoughts on “Concrete: How It’s Done in the Third World, not just Bricks and Mortar”

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    Elite Concrete Restoration

    That is not the way to form with concrete, we really need to export some of our engineering resources.

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