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Grab a bag of pre-expanded beads, and the first surprise is how heavy they are. Almost none. The fact that a bag the size of

Most of expanded polystyrene is just air, about ninety-eight percent air by volume trapped in fused beads. You get almost a tonne into one cubic

There is almost nothing in common between a road embankment over soft coastal soil and a podium slab above a basement, except for the light

Fresh produce does not usually lose quality because of one dramatic event. It is the accumulation of smaller exposures: time on a loading platform, movement

Cold-chain transport in the UAE is rarely a simple cold-room-to-cold-room movement. Product leaves controlled storage, passes through dispatch, enters a vehicle, changes hands, reaches a

In the UAE, insulation decisions make more sense when they begin with the building envelope rather than a catalogue. A villa roof in Abu Dhabi,

A building in the UAE can be structurally sound and fitted with an efficient air-conditioning system, yet still perform badly because the envelope allows too

A quotation can look perfectly reasonable and still be for the wrong material. That is where quite a few purchasing decisions go wrong. The buyer

A warehouse in the UAE is a large thermal problem before it becomes a storage problem. Thousands of square metres of roof and wall sit