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Technology · Engineering
…were derived “from the design model.” The design model is stored in the file format of an engineering program that is no longer sold, on a disk in a filing cabinet at the Department’s offices in Corran, and nobody…
Politics · Public works
…avoided, on average, 5.70 crowns of work later. “It is the least controversial finding in civil engineering,” he said. “Every road engineer in the world knows it. Every finance committee in the world forgets it by the…
Science · Biodiversity
…Longer between visits It is tempting to think of a seed vault as a place where time stops. The engineering invites it: the steel door, the rock, the cold. A repository brochure printed in 2015 calls the collection “safe…
Culture · Repair
…items in 2015 to 121 last year. Walt, who regards the electric blanket as a sound piece of engineering, explains the logic without sentiment. “You heat the person, not the room,” he says. “Costs pennies. That’s what…
Politics · Government
…its maintenance allocation, not for lack of work but for lack of people: 17 percent of its engineering posts are vacant, and private consultancies pay roughly a third more. A ministry that cannot spend what it has…