Category Archives: Construction

How Can You Tell A Knockdown Home Versus A Renovation Project?

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For prospective home buyers, gauging whether a potential home represents a knockdown and rebuild or a renovation project can often be an extremely personal decision! In other words, ‘one man’s trash is another man’s treasure!’ For some an existing home is ‘livable’ as-is by making some minor improvements such as new carpet and paint. For […]

Do You Still Have Favorite Sports Team?

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Are you still a sports fan or have you become nothing more than a statistics watcher playing fantasy sports? The truth of the matter is that the undying loyalty of fans to a specific team has been diluted over the years because of a couple of significant factors… The first issue is that we now live in […]

Time-Lapse Video: China Builds A 57-Floor Skyscraper In 19 Days!

An astounding feat of engineering and technology with a 57-floor skyscraper in China constructed in a mere 19-days at a rate of 3-stories per day! ‘Sploid reader Xian Min Zhang sent us the latest time-lapse video of the construction of his latest building: A 57-floor 2-million-square-foot (180,000-square-meter) skyscraper fully built with energy-efficient, factory-produced Lego-like blocks. […]