Also, Wynn has a substantial debt load after building its luxury resorts, and at the end of their last fiscal year debt to assets stood at 47%.

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The Monadnock is a good place to get a practical sense of how quickly these innovations were catching on: the original northern half of the building consists of traditional load-bearing walls that are 6ft thick at the bottom, while the southern half, constructed only two years later, uses the then-revolutionary metal frame for drastically thinner walls that go just as high.

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On Tuesday , the Commons meets at 11.30am for justice questions and then there's a ten minute rule bill from the Conservative Stephen Mosley on Building Regulations (External Retaining and Load-bearing Walls).

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Meanwhile, five big-rig trucks roar up to the back of the building in the space of just 15 minutes, as employees load them up with unmarked brown boxes.

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Once sidled up to the building, a crew uses a scissor lift to unload giant enclosures made of Lexan and aluminum, dubbed Universal Load Devices (ULDs), which can weigh up to two tons each.

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