Parts of Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport are gleaming; but elsewhere people sit with their saris drawn over their mouths to stop themselves inhaling the dust as plasterboard is machine-sawn nearby.
Some days he stands by a conveyor belt in a huge warehouse, picking wood, cardboard, plasterboard and metal out of demolition debris.
And housebuilders line the walls with prefabricated plasterboard, through which sound travels more readily than it does through old-fashioned walls coated in plaster.Houses are getting taller in response to the squeeze.
Tradesmen buying drills and plasterboard for their day's work jostle with commuters picking up paint on the way to the office.
Firms such as Serious Materials of California provide energy-saving windows and environmentally friendly plasterboard.
I should think that as you're crawling out of a heap of burning plasterboard that used to be your living room, it makes all the difference to hear a beep and see you've got a message saying: "Hi, set 4 gr8 boom 2 mins OMG too la8 soz xxx".
In this case, insulation boards can be fitted between the roof rafters and covered with plasterboard.
In an abandoned building opposite Smithfield Market, 2,000 individual mint plants will liven up the bare brick and plasterboard to create a "Garden of Disorientation", while a bar serves up four different flavours of mojito.
(Except, perhaps, the bit about stripping paint off the walls if you have the "plasterboard effect" underneath).
In his late teens, English moved to Dallas and got a job putting up plasterboard walls in "the projects" (housing estates).
The limestone used in the construction of York Minster (cathedral) was quarried in the district; limestone is still quarried there, and south of Tadcaster gypsum is mined for use in making plasterboard.
