All blast walls designed to protect the streets ... The removal of the ubiquitous concrete walls — which have for years been a bleak feature of daily life in Baghdad — would ease the flow ...

Alchemy Concrete, Inc., Nelsonville, Wis., builds conventional and decorative concrete installations ... wrap-around steps and install raised concrete walls that acted as both retaining walls ...

chicanes and blast barriers, a little colour has just re-appeared. Every official building or media base these days has a frontage of four-metre (13ft) high concrete walls to protect against bombs and ...

KABUL — An Afghan artist is using the blast walls of Kabul’s streets to rail against corruption in the heart of the country’s capital. Kabir Mokamel's goal is to use the protective concrete ...

Muhammad Naseer is hard at work pouring concrete from a wheelbarrow into a T-shaped bowl made of steel. He is making a three-metre tall blast barrier, commonly known in Afghanistan as a T-wall.