The assessment of a dredging projects soil conditions are the most important factor to determine dredgeability, the choice of suitable equipment, production rates and ultimately the associated investment for the works. A prudent tenderer when analysing the site data needs to be assured that the data has been collected and prepared by a competent soil investigation [...]
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
A mountain of Christmas gifts and goods make their way from and into homes each Christmas season. Unfortunately, not long after the festivities subside, many of those well-meaning gifts move rapidly on to mounds of landfill. Slowing the migration is as easy as setting your family the Green Christmas Challenge to send as little as [...]
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
New Guinea is the world’s second largest island, and is also one of the world’s last, vast and remote wildernesses. With a complex political history, this great island is divided. The western half, is now called Papua, a region of Indonesia, while the eastern half, Papua New Guinea or PNG, has been an independent country [...]
Monday, October 26, 2009
After the declaration of war in September 1939 house construction went through a period of decreasing activity. But it did not drop to its minimal level until February 1942 when National Security Regulations posed severe restrictions. Private building ceased in many areas and was limited in others. However, under the War Housing Program, state and commonwealth [...]
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Stick a pin in a globe through the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and it emerges almost exactly through the Cocos in Costa Rica. Discovered in 1609, these islands were settled and owned by a single family from 1827 until the Australian Government forcibly acquired them in 1978 for a payment of over $6 million. Lying 2,770 km (1,732 [...]
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
In the Indian Ocean off the Horn of Africa lies a small archipelago of four islands and islets. Although closer to Africa, the islands are part of the Republic of Yemen. The archipelago consists of the main island of Socotra and three smaller islands known collectively as The Brothers Abd al Kuri, Samhah and Darsa. The [...]
Monday, October 19, 2009
The Pearl of the Indian Ocean lies only 31 km (19 ml) off India’s south coast. Its modern name is taken from the Sanskrit ancient Indian epics Mahabharata and the Ramayana, and means resplendent land. Sri Lanka’s chief characteristic is intensity …of colour, of beauty, of religious belief, of sectarian commitment, and of affection it inspires [...]
Monday, October 19, 2009
Digital Printing, as its name implies, is the process of producing digital images on physical surfaces (called substrates) using either toner or ink jets. These substrates can include film, common paper, plastic photographic paper, and even cloth. Digital printing is by far the quickest and most affordable printing technique for a quantity of 500 prints or [...]
Friday, October 16, 2009
Often described in the post-war years as `the housing shortage’, the national effort to fix a very serious issue has over the years come to be called `the housing boom’. Without a doubt it was a boom in demand and building. There was also a marked increase in house ownership, achieved in many cases through [...]
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Tobago is the beautiful, reserved, soul-sister of jump jiving Trinidad, its partner in the Republic. The contrast is awesome. Tobago is small and it has no major industry to impinge on its lush fertility. It has one main town, Scarborough, and dozens of hamlets and villages with names that reflect the Spanish, French, Dutch, and [...]
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