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It often takes several stakeholders to bring a construction project to life, and for vertical construction developments, there are added complexities with space restrictions and intricate designs to support the upward structure. It’s no surprise, then, that mistakes happen, but mistakes can quickly drain budgets and can take years to rectify.

Unlike neighbouring Japan, earthquake activity is infrequent in the peninsula area of South Korea, and those that do occur tend to be low in intensity. Typically, earthquakes in this region measure between 2.0 and 5.0 on the Richter scale[1]. The record for the quake with the highest magnitude on the Korean Peninsula stood for some time, recorded at 5.3 in 1980. This was recently overtaken by a 5.…

The use of UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) in ecology and conservation is building momentum, with many research groups around the world exploring this novel way to collect images of animals for analysis. Most of this work is being carried out on land, but a few intrepid scientists are starting to venture out over the water, and my team from the Zoological Society of London are no exception. There…