They combined skills to push for support of rock quarries, landfills, hospitals and power plants.
The East Kilbride firm bought Parsons Peebles Generation from Patersons Quarries for an undisclosed sum.
For traditional restoration, old quarries can be reopened and old techniques revived to stay true to history.
Milford is known as "The Granite Town" in the Granite State, though nearly all the local granite quarries are closed now.
Carrara Marble Quarries Tour - Before Michelangelo crafted his masterpiece, David, he started with a block of Carrara marble.
The relevant legislation is the 1954 Mines and Quarries Act which classes five deaths or more as a disaster.
Eventually, repairs and reinforcements were made, and to this day, the tunnels and quarries are still monitored for safety.
On the road back from the quarries is the picture-book town of Mergozzo.
But the Florida waters and quarries are still full of Ice Age bones.
Payne and Cousins had climbed together many times, from the mountains of North America to the tiny quarries of Lancashire.
The Talyllyn narrow-gauge line was built in the 19th century to carry slate from the Bryn Eglwys quarries near Abergynolwyn.
The group based its decision on the 1954 Mines and Quarries Act which classes five deaths or more as a disaster.
Edge Renewables wants to buy the three quarries there to chip wood from sustainably managed forests for renewable energy biomass incinerators.
Sometimes, when it comes to quarries, that requires purchasing an existing pit.
The National Trust, which also wants to buy the quarries, said noise and lorries would harm the site of special scientific interest.
So, beginning in the 1780s, the bodies were transferred in carriages at night to a new, final resting place in the old quarries.
In 1878, the obelisk known as Cleopatra's Needle, originally cut from the quarries of Aswan in about 1475 BC, was erected in London.
Between its 14 cement plants, hundreds of ready-mix concrete plants and quarries, and distribution stations in the U.S., Cemex employs about 15, 000 American workers.
He has installed sculptures around the village and every July sponsors an opera and theatre festival in the old quarries next to the castle.
On the Ickworth estate he organised what was perhaps the only shooting party ever held anywhere in which the quarries were the tame peacocks.
The Palais de Chaillot - or more precisely one of quarries that lies beneath it -- was the scene of one their most infamous projects.
It has farms, coal mines, quarries, zoos, and many other industries.
Because they knew that the long, flat expanses of wall would lack Cret's enriching classical ornament, they did not go to the original quarries for the closest match.
Through fossil clubs and field trips to quarries, Prokopi got to know older hunters who spent their lives beachcombing or standing chest deep in muck, searching for bone.
Glyn Rhonwy had been chosen because the geology of the area is good and the hydroelectric idea is appropriate for an area of former slate quarries, he said.
So engineers turned to steam engines to return the carts back up the line to the slate quarries before they were returned down the line under their own gravity.
But the subterranean quarries that were formed proved to be a shaky foundation for the city, causing a number of streets to collapse and be swallowed up by the ground.
Madocks used the "great embankment" to reclaim hundreds of acres of land from the sea and, in turn, brought prosperity to the area, linking the slate quarries with the sea.
Deep in the heart of the rugged and spectacular Snowdonia countryside, the small village of Croesor sprang up towards the mid 19th century to provide homes for workers in neighbouring quarries.
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