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Science news: Melting glaciers and Alaska earthquakes, chemistry triggers landslides, Zealandia switch, Beirut blast in 2020
Recent discoveries about our planet, its rocks, and other “stone” topics
Dream house for a builder and dream job for a stonemason
A villa in Murau, Austria shows what the natural stone can do and what the craftsman can make of it
On the Reiserberg not far from Kaiserslautern in Germany there is a walk-in sundial with 12 obelisks made of the local sandstone
The project brings together numerous local features and offers something with which the citizens can identify as well as economic perspectives
In 2020, spending on home improvements and repairs in the US grew by more than 3 percent
New Report by Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies / Free Online-Webinar on March 25, 2021
Miscellaneous: ideas around natural stone
A solution has been found in the conflict about the demolition of Elyn Zimmerman’s work Marabar in front of the National Geographic Society’s (NGS) headquarters in Washington DC
Michael Picco: “We have to communicate more with green facts about natural stone, e.g., Environmental Product Declarations and Life-Cycle-Assessments”
The 2021 president of the Natural Stone Institute (NSI) sees the moment favorable to reach even internationally standardized datasheets for marble, granite etc
Xiamen Stone Fair (May 18-21, 2021) will have virtual Guided Tours and B2B-meetings using matchmaking technology
As traveling will remain restricted and inconvenient, the organizers develop new tools for online visits and meetings between international buyers and sellers