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Water-Related Disasters and Disaster Risk Management in Metropolitan Areas (Tokyo)

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April 12, 2017
This article is an abstract of Dr. Koji IKEUCHI’s presentation who is a professor at the University of Tokyo since October 2016. Before that, he worked at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) till June 2016. As a civil engineer of the MLIT, He was in charge of flood control measures and management of natural disasters for many years. He became the Director…
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No Fines Concrete

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September 18, 2016
As the name suggests, no fines concrete is simply the concrete in which fines or fine aggregate is absent and omitted intentionally. Fine aggregates generally consist of natural sand or crushed stone with most particles passing through a 9.5 mm or 3/8 inch…
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Transparent or Translucent Concrete

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September 17, 2016
Have you ever seen a façade or cladding giving look of a rock-hard material but still gives you a see-through and translucent look inside the building? .  The widest used construction material, which is sustainable and reliable as well, is getting a makeover by engineers of modern era. Transparent or Translucent Concrete  \”it’s even possible to see colors…
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SmartSite – A monitoring unit for building sites

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September 11, 2016
This brand-new company, founded in 2016, offers a tool that makes it possible to manage a safe work environment on construction sites. The product is placed in the construction site area, and continually examines a number of parameters: the noise level, dust levels…