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  2. Earthbag construction - Wikipedia

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    It is a natural building technique developed from historic military bunker construction techniques and temporary flood-control dike building methods. The technique requires very basic construction materials: sturdy sacks filled with organic material usually available on site. Standard earthbag fill material has internal stability.

  3. Geotextile tube - Wikipedia

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    Geotextile tubes being filled with sand. Amphibious dredge boat collecting sediment by using a cutting head, transporting it to geotubes. A geotextile tube is a large, tube-shaped bag made of porous, weather-resistant geotextile and filled with a sand slurry, to form an artificial coastal structure such as a breakwaters, dune or levee.

  4. Sandbag - Wikipedia

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    Residents and volunteers work to fill sandbags during the Mississippi and Missouri river floods of 1993. Members of the Georgia National Guard filling sandbags in preparation for floods. A sandbag or dirtbag is a bag or sack made of hessian (burlap), polypropylene or other sturdy materials that is filled with sand or soil and used for such ...

  5. Superadobe - Wikipedia

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    Superadobe is a form of earthbag construction that was developed by Iranian architect Nader Khalili. [ 1] The technique uses layered long fabric tubes or bags filled with adobe to form a compression structure. [ 2] The resulting beehive -shaped structures employ corbelled arches, corbelled domes, and vaults to create sturdy single and double ...

  6. How fetching water is holding back India's women

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    Ms Bhurbade says getting tap water for her is still a distant dream. “ [Women] start when they are children themselves. Someone hands them a small bucket and says, fetch what you can carry. And ...

  7. Repoussé and chasing - Wikipedia

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    The bowl can be placed over a sand bag or leather ring, and tilted to whatever angle is most convenient. A heat gun or blow torch to soften the pitch in order to fix the plate, or to release it. A set of "punches", that is, chisels with smooth tips that are used to push the metal: A "liner" has a flattened tip with a slightly curved blunt edge.

  8. Embankment (earthworks) - Wikipedia

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    An embankment is a raised wall, bank or mound made of earth or stones, that are used to hold back water or carry a roadway. A road, railway line, or canal is normally raised onto an embankment made of compacted soil (typically clay or rock-based) to avoid a change in level required by the terrain, the alternatives being either to have an ...

  9. Beach nourishment - Wikipedia

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    This project used sand-filled geotextile tube groins that were originally to remain in place for up to 3 years. A pipe was to transport sand from deeper water to the beach. The pipe was anchored by concrete blocks attached by fibre straps. A video showed the blocks bouncing off the coral in the current, killing whatever they touched.

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