Comment preview: I work in construction, and I'm amazed by how much I love the guys. I don't work in the field, and am a girl in my 20s, and I expected it to be rough. It's quite the opposite. They're some of the most down to earth, humble, lovable people I know. This kind ....

Comment preview: The road my best friend lives on has been closed for 16 months. The last time we saw a construction crew out there actually doing any work was the summer of 2012. Yet someone from the city, on a daily basis, always comes back to move the signs back into ....

Comment preview: SO this wasn't me, but it's a story my dad tells me often. When he was about 16 he lived in New York, in the rural area not in the city. One week the construction crew was working on paving the road, my dad was walking home (he lived close to the school) a ....

Comment preview: First day working with a new construction crew, I was to meet my new supervisor at the local McDonalds to follow him out to the construction site. I arrived to find they'd hired two new guys, me and someone else. The boss pulls up in his truck and tells us ....

Comment preview: I read about this incident in a college level psychology class: A construction crew had a major fuck up and somehow crashed a piece of heavy vehicle machinery into an overpass/bridge. So basically this giant vehicle is now wedged in between the road it sta ....

Comment preview: In the early 90s I worked for a large construction company in Florida. I was on the road crew. One of the machines we used was called a mixer. The objective of this machine was to mix up the subgrade of a road. It has giant teeth that spin insanely fast. W ....

Comment preview: This is truly a heart-warming story about the bond formed between a little girl and some construction workers. This makes you want to believe in the goodness of people and that there is hope for the human race. A young family moved into a house next door t ....

Comment preview: Here's why it's so cheap: this is just for the "Eye" of the SeaOrbiter. It's the lookout/communication part on the top, and represents 1% of the total costs. >Out of the total vessel heigt of 58 meters, the 18m of the Eye of SeaOrbiter hosts the lookout ....

Comment preview: This may be a case in which you need to consider circumstances. There appears to be construction going on, the business these handicapped parking spaces belong to may very well be closed and under construction. The other spaces may very well be blocked off ....

Comment preview: Wood and bolted steel building frame systems can be built extremely quickly. Field-welded steel frames are a bit slower, but concrete buildings take a LONG time, because you have to wait for the concrete to reach a certain strength before you can continue ....

Comment preview: In 2002 I got a job running a painting crew for new construction, we got about 350 a town house, 500 a single, considering with 3 guys we could do a town in under 7 hours, we were laughing (right out of high school, minimum wage was 8.75 or so) One day at ....

Comment preview: Years ago I worked at Animal Kingdom (Disney) when it was under construction. I was a scenic artist and wore painter's clothes which were always covered with tons of paint. The park wasn't open to the public yet but the new employees were there training. T ....

Comment preview: In the draft screenplay that was leaked, when they arrived in the gargantuan system, the planet that they visit was similar to Dr. Mann's world. They find a base that had been constructed atop the ice by Chinese tychonauts. Unfortunately (and this is also ....

Comment preview: I was working on a construction crew out in the middle of nowhere. Most of the crew was using chainsaws on one cabin while I was assisting an electrician at a cabin about 100 yards away. A VERY old electrician. At the end of the day the old guy was heading ....

Comment preview: So the US purposely took 50 people and launched them into space in 1963 on a sub light trip to ... where? This is one of those goofy shows that SYFY would buy! The premise makes no sense and the buyer of these shows has no understanding of sci-fi. Edit: I ....

Comment preview: **2012**: Construction on the generational starship *Mayflower* begins at the International Space Station. **2020**: With mounting challenges in spaceborne construction, *Mayflower* is placed into an independent geosynchronous orbit around Earth, and a dry ....

Comment preview: Rant time. I have been waiting to write this for years... I want to give you this scenario... Imagine for a moment that you are going to build a house. You have an idea what sort of house you want. So you hire an architect, plumbers, framers, electricians, ....

Comment preview: There was a good comment by /u/Hickorychips about it yesterday. >Rant time. I have been waiting to write this for years... >I want to give you this scenario... Imagine for a moment that you are going to build a house. You have an idea what sort of ho ....

Comment preview: What i think people dont understand is that the times that you see only one guy working, is often because the job at the tim eonly requires one guy. for example a watermain break. you have a crew of maybe 5 guys, two guys to operate machinery, one guy resp ....

Comment preview: Reminds me of something I saw on a construction site in the 90's. Our crew was building a foundation in a new subdivision. Across the street, another crew of carpenters were working. One of their guys pulls up later and takes a cage out of the back of his ....

Comment preview: > or is manpower so cheap that it's less efficient to make work easier with the most basic of supplies This. I'm in the US, and a few years ago we did a construction project (earthen damn) for an Indian company who had not previous built anything in the ....

Comment preview: If you want honesty, from my experience its because only 10% of us are actually working. Look at it this way, if you are working construction most of time you are a student or someone who is looking for a temporary job that pays half decent. By half decent ....

Comment preview: The amount of **logistics** involved on an active film set is staggering. Life can be very stressful for a unit production manager, production coordinator, and basically everybody in charge of making sure it runs smoothly. And it is very expensive. * Plann ....

Comment preview: > Sure, but who's paying for those homes that were built by construction crews The construction was already paid for by the initial developers. At this point, most of these vacant homes are owned by banks due to foreclosures. These houses are just sitti ....

Comment preview: Because work goes on virtually every hour of every day in high rises. The office critters occupy and push papers and make up money during the daylight and sometimes into the evening. And Overnight/early morning there are cleaning crews maintenance/repair c ....