The Atlantic Beach Council voted unanimously to pay a local contractor $97,000 to bulldoze sand away from the seawall and ...

Julian Leyland receives funding from UKRI. Sand underpins everything from skyscrapers to smartphones. Sharp sand (as opposed to rounded desert sand) is the key ingredient in concrete, while high ...

Add additional coats that extend beyond the patch’s edge. Then sand smooth, feathering the edges flush with the wall. Spackle can be used for other repairs, as well, like the chipping that often ...

Peter Wall arrived in Canada as a penniless refugee in 1948. But he rose to the top of the Canadian development industry, building some of Vancouver’s landmark buildings, including One Wall ...

SAND is set in an alternate-history, diesel-punk world—the ruined planet Sophie—where an ecological disaster has evaporated the oceans. All that’s left are humans and their Trampler mechs ...

Here, sand is added to eroded beaches to speed up the replenishment process. Other options include building vertical seawalls or sloping revetment walls. These expensive methods of protection work ...

Some of Australia’s most famous and popular beaches have been stripped of sand by the storm lashing the east coast and could stay that way for months, in a big hit to tourism and holiday plans ...

Construction continued up to the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), when the Great Wall became the world's largest military structure. Its historic and strategic importance is matched only by its architectural ...

Laura White, who was visiting York from Australia, says "tipping" the walls is a brilliant idea On a sunny day in York, crowds of visitors flock to the city centre to enjoy the weather.

ODESSA, Texas (KMID/KPEJ)- The rumble of sand-hauling trucks is a familiar sound in the Permian Basin, but soon, that sound may come without a driver behind the wheel. In a groundbreaking shift for ...