Tetrahedral concrete forms used to prevent coastal erosion provided the design cues for this soap, which would look at home in any brutalist bathroom. Called Tetra Soap, the product takes its name and ...

Kochi: The state government’s plan to construct a seawall using tetrapods along the sea-erosion prone areas at Chellanam is likely to be delayed as the tendering of the project that was said to be ...

CHENNAI: In a bid to prevent coastal erosion and sea-water intrusion, about 14,000 tetrapods will be placed along the coast of Thiruvottriyur Kuppam, said fisheries department officials. Already 5000 ...

One thing that might be a factor is how turbulence actually can increase the speed of the main flow. Take golf balls. The dimples cause localized turbulence around the ball which reduces the drag and ...

Astonishingly, despite their unsightly impact on natural scenery, the Internet is full of geeks who appear to love tetrapods. (Whether referring generically to those concrete things piled up all along ...

The placing of tetrapods to protect the Chellanam coast from sea erosion has begun in right earnest, despite residents’ apprehension that the casting and installation of the concrete structures might ...

MANILA, Philippines – Concrete Stone Corp. (CSC), the construction solutions arm of Asiabest Group International (ABG), clinched a P22-million deal to supply tetrapods to a unit of mining company ...

Questions are being raised after concrete tetrapods, left over from the coastal road-building at Haji Ali, were dumped into the sea along the Bandra Bandstand promenade without waiting for a report on ...

Every year in the coastal village of Kerala’s Ernakulam district Chellanam, monsoon rains wreak havoc with reports of sea incursion, erosion and property destruction becoming a norm. Villagers ...