Six months after handover, a long block wall in a Lahore factory shed shows a neat vertical crack running from the window sill
A boundary wall in Rawalpindi goes up in solid concrete blocks, gets plastered, gets painted and looks finished. Then the first heavy monsoon
A shopping mall car park in July can feel like a frying pan in daylight and a lake after a monsoon downpour. Developers
Some kerbs in Pakistan's older sectors have stood straight for decades. Others, installed last year in a new housing society, already lean outward,
Walk through any older parking area in Lahore or Rawalpindi and you can often spot the problem from a distance. Long lines of
The first heavy monsoon spell arrives, and a few days later a damp patch appears on the inside of a new wall. The
A truck unloads at a 10 marla site in Islamabad on Monday. By Friday, the mason is complaining about chipped corners, one stack
Grass pavers have an unusual problem: half of every unit is empty space. The thin concrete ribs between the openings carry every car,
Walk through almost any housing society in Rawalpindi or Peshawar and you will find kerbs that lean outward, sit crooked, or have simply
A homeowner in Islamabad finishes a new paver driveway, parks an SUV on it for a month, and then finds three cracked blocks