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It's 100 degrees outside. Your steering wheel is approximately the temperature of the sun. The air conditioner is doing its best. Then you see it. A section of pavement ahead looks like somebody pushed the road together from both ends and made it pop upward. Sometimes it happens fast enough to become a traffic hazard. The road buckled. But why? Concrete looks pretty solid. How does a material strong enough to carry tractor-trailers suddenly decide to stand up in the middle of the highway? The sh …

Every small town seems to have one. A giant tank sitting way up in the air with the town's name painted across it. Sometimes it's the first thing you see coming into town. Sometimes it's decorated. Sometimes it's been standing there so long nobody really notices it anymore. But if you stop and think about it, a water tower is kind of strange. We take hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions, of gallons of water and deliberately put it high above the ground. That requires a massive structure. En …

Scaffolding Massive Bridges Sometimes the work you need to reach isn't 300 feet above the ground. It's 300 feet above water, traffic, or absolutely nothing. Welcome to bridge scaffolding. Bridges present some of the most unusual access challenges in construction. Unlike a building, where much of the work is accessible from the ground or from relatively predictable elevations, the areas requiring maintenance on a bridge may be underneath the structure, between massive structural members, above ac …