Around 2008, the great housing bust hit California, and our client's construction empire crumbled.
Her husband is also struggling to find work after his construction company crumbled.
And in places like Seminole County, Fla., where the construction industry crumbled during the recession, more than 1,100 homeless students traverse the public schools.
It has played a more active role in subsidizing airport construction than overhauling crumbling rails.
What's to be done when the rubber used in an Eva Hesse construction begins to crumble?
I'm at Toronto's Harbourfront, having enjoyed a scenic 20-minute bus ride beautifully complemented by 20 minutes of lost wandering around construction sites, the crumbling remains of old superclubs, and never-ending condos, condos, condos, letting my legs slowly adhere to the hot, sticky surface of plastic lawn furniture.
Everything was rock construction, often without mortar, so it crumbled in the earthquake".
The concrete blocks used in the construction were of poor construction due to the high sand content that crumbled with the expanding and contraction of the mortar.
CONAKRY, Guinea — Chinese and Guinean workers toil shoulder to shoulder on a sun-blasted construction site at this crumbling city's edge, building the latest symbol of an old and sturdy alliance: a $50 million, 50,000-seat stadium.
Peak prices of $145 a barrel have crumbled as the financial crisis halted construction projects, shuttered auto plants and curbed oil consumption worldwide.
