August: the greatest month of them all, for at least three reasons: 1. The Galway Races. 2. Football returns on telly. 3. It’s National Water Quality Month in the USA. Okay, some of those are pretty lame (here’s looking at you, National Water Quality Month), but we... 
Tech in Construction: Ignore It (and maybe it will all just go away) The Story of Mr Clayhouse Once upon a time, around 8,000BC, people built houses out of clay. They would literally just slap lumps of clay one on top of another until they had made what passed for... We come downstairs and out through the lobby, still blowing like two whales in the North Atlantic. The boss rips the sign from the wall as we leave the building and folds it delicately into a pocket square for his destroyed shirt, the crisp white paper in contrast to... He is nothing of the sort, of course. His forward momentum, and whatever special forces training he must have had in his shadowy past, means that – rather than collapsing into the river or breaking multiple limbs like a mere mortal – he thrusts himself forward and... Women and children next, I suppose. The tenders are hermetically sealed in short order, using twenty bin liners, from an open pack of fifty he withdraws from the backseat. I idly wonder if the other bin liners were used for the last set of tenders or the body parts of... 