concrete block

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They are still demanding answers over the key question surrounding the crash: why was there a concrete block at the end of the runway, despite international aviation safety guidelines?

From Barron's • Dec. 23, 2025

In 2018 - more than 20 years after the BRE's report - a concrete block fell from the ceiling of a school in Kent.

From BBC • Sep. 4, 2023

Homes of concrete block complete with fences, pools and even a dock have been illegally built inside the Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve.

From Seattle Times • May 6, 2022

Many workers now live in a two-story concrete block surrounded by a metal fence and watched over by Serbian security guards who bar entry to outsiders.

From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2022

Behind the low counter, half a dozen women hovered over waist-high stoves made of concrete block.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann