Iraqi subcontractors at the annex to the Ibn Sina Army Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, work on a roof construction method, not used in the US, it is a modification of a traditional Iraqi building method. A shallow arch is created with bricks and mortar between steel or pre-fabricated concrete beams, and when set, will support a poured concrete deck. This project has been planned, managed, and quality controlled by US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and site managers
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: IRAQI FREEDOM
Base: Baghdad
Country: Iraq (IRQ)
Scene Camera Operator: Jim Gordon, CIV
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
10/07/2005
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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