The fire suppression system – which was tragically almost complete before the blaze, but delayed by the discovery of asbestos – will be finished, along with services threaded through newly exposed ducts and voids.
And these are only some of the variations.For complicated structures that contain voids and overhangs, gels and other materials are added to provide support, or the space can be left filled with powder that has not been fused.
Tarun Khanna of Harvard Business School has argued that emerging-world conglomerates are transient phenomena: they have thrived because businesses need to compensate for the underdeveloped nature of the local market (or fill in "institutional voids", as he puts it).
Doing so, however, not only voids the maker's warranty, but can easily "brick" the device, turning it into an expensive paperweight, and also risks opening up vulnerabilities that can be exploited by malware.
But he hopes that, like humans, his 'bots will come to do better, incorporating voids and overhangs in their constructions.As to the uses such buildings might be put to, he suggests they could be thrown up quickly as temporary structures in disaster areas, or in places hostile to people, such as outer space.
"The whole world is Café Riche," announced Naguib Surur, a poet, in 1977, "where everyone drowns their shame in the voids of their glass tumblers".
AMONG the many voids left by the death of Steve Jobs on October 5th was an empty seat in the boardroom of Walt Disney, where he was the largest shareholder.
Instead of using just lines, which can only be interpreted by people, the model is based on objects, which are solid shapes or voids with their own properties.
And in February, there are worries about how the Lib Dems will perform in Oldham East and Saddleworth, where a byelection will be held after a court found the election result, which went in favour of Labour's Phil Woolas, to be void.
With more than one in seven high street stores already lying empty, property experts do not expect the rapacious growth of food chains to fill that void.
I'd grown up with that dog, it had died almost in front of me, yet I was void of feeling.
