Eike-Christian Heine, since 2016, is an Assistant Researcher at the Department for the History of Science and Technology at the TU Braunschweig, where he is currently on leave with a Gerda Henkel research scholarship. His current research project explores a colonial, technological and knowledge history of archaeology by focusing on Germans, French and British travellers and their careers in the Ottoman Empire before 1940.Christoph Rauhut was Senior Research Assistant at the Institute of Historic Building Research and Conservation of the ETH Zurich from 2009 to 2015 and now works as Policy Advisor to the German Cultural Heritage Committee. He studied architecture at RWTH Aachen University and at ETH Zurich and received a PhD in 2014.

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• Part 1: Across Borders, Beyond Epochs1 Non–Simultaneity in the Construction of the Canal du Midi2 The non-simultaneous as a research tool for late nineteenth-century construction sites3 Siting Construction: Agency, Reflexivity and Temporality at the Glocal Construction SitePart 2: The Persistence of Bricolage4 Steel as Medium: Constructing WGC, a Tallish Building in Postwar Sweden5 Between Technological Effectiveness and Artisanal Inventiveness: Concreting Torres Blancas6 Constructing Brutalism: In-Situ Knowledge and Skill on London’s South BankPart 3: Intermediaries 7 General Contractors on Site. Contractors’ Discourses on their Position and Organisation, Belgium 1874 – 1958 8 Between Bourgeois Traditionalism and Extreme Environmental Conditions. "Alpenvereinshütten" and their Construction Sites in the High MountainsPart 4: Hand and Head: Construction and the Imaginary 9 Contradictions between Artisan and Wage Labour Production: Non–Simultaneity in the Building of Somers Town from the End of the Eighteenth Century10 Mixing Time: Ancient: Modern Intersections along the Western Anatolian Railways 11 Cathedrals, Pyramids and Hitler’s Highways. The Construction Site of the German Autobahn under National Socialism (1933–1942)