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This is a mini-documentary film about building a mega city on a lake. A Chinampas (chee-nahm-pahs) is a floating garden that eventually becomes solid earth, and that's the origin story of Mexico City. What used to be a massive lake and little city is now a massive city and little lake.Here's an AI-written summary of the video:

At PTC Live, the crew from WilsonArt demonstrated how to work with Thinscape, a solid surface countertop material

This is the fenestration episode of Building Resilience: Installing vinyl windows and a three-panel multislide patio door unit

Three-coat stucco patching with a block and mortar pattern between a lot of pipes sticking through a wall

How to develop an inclusive culture on construction jobsites and offices and attract talent to fill skilled labor jobs

ADUs are small houses, attached to foundations creating housing for extended family or renters

A walk-through of a drywall lift for ceilings and a drywall lift for walls

Framing walls using OSB with integrated weather resistive barrier (WRB) speeds the dry-in process and simplifies the air barrier

A two-day concrete driveway pour compressed to an informative eleven minutes

Probably. Four hours of clamping is enough for the wood glue to be stronger than the wood

All clothes dryers should vent directly outside

A construction calculator makes quick work of complicated hip and valley roof framing

You only need to move the drywall knife in two passes, up, down, done, and repeat for the second coat of drywall compound

Two WRB solutions help to build resilience into the mix. Add a rainscreen, four cladding options cover to the walls, and a sticky roofing membrane under a standing seam metal roof, and you have a resilient little home.