Sentences with phrase «as timber»

«The «industrial chic» look works well with open shelves and suspended features, while in more rural projects, we might use materials such as timber and wicker.

As timber can be cut on site, there's no need to wait for templating.

Straight doesn't have to equal dull, and it's possible to modernise less than lovely stairs with cladding, such as timber, tiles or stone.

Neutral tones, occasional pops of colour, luxurious fabrics and natural finishes, such as timber and stone, all contribute to the sophisticated boutique hotel feel.

Forests provide many important goods, such as timber and paper.

Critical habitats aren't protected from logging, although federal agencies are required to consult with the Fish and Wildlife to see if a specific project, such as a timber sale, would jeopardize the recovery of an endangered species.

Others are interested in producing biofuels to meet U.S. or European Union renewable fuel goals, or in producing industrial crops such as timber, rubber, or sugar.

Sponsors include leading British and international wood marketing and promotion organisations and associations, as well as timber product, suppliers and associated companies.

As far as I know, the cost of framing with steel is around the same as timber framing.

Hey, nope — once it's framed you can pretty much just treat it the same as a timber stud, and there's no difference in hanging extra shelving or anything like that.

The job of the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) is to balance competing interests: To maintain wild areas while at the same time supporting extractive industries such as timber, mining, oil, and gas.

Tree cover loss may be the result of human activities, including forestry practices such as timber harvesting or deforestation (the conversion of natural forest to other land uses), as well as natural causes such as disease or storm damage.

Over the years, she's seen how sea level rise, as well as timber harvesting and other industrial activities, have changed the river, making it wider, wilder and more difficult for fish to navigate.

As timber companies move into Central Africa's forests, apes increasingly have to find ways to survive in the altered forests they call home.

Humankind's relentless consumption of resources such as timber, oil and minerals is continuing to destroy natural habitats around the globe.

Not only did payments make a difference; they found that those species being protected were twice as likely to be of commercial value as timber, and also more likely to be at risk of extinction.

• Reducing the amount of waste sent to landfills and incinerators • Conserving natural resources such as timber, water, and minerals • Saving energy by reusing materials that have already been processed • Preventing pollution by reducing the need to collect new raw materials • Reducing greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global climate change • Helping to sustain the environment for future generations

The flood control service of trees standing, they said, was three times as valuable as the timber from trees cut.

Barlow challenges the limits and possibilities of cheap, everyday materials, such as timber, concrete and fabric.

The structures have purposefully been made from inexpensive material such as timber, polystyrene, canvas, cardboard, rope and debris from the artist's studio, in order to contrast with the grand neoclassical architecture in which they have been installed.

Throughout her career, Barlow has used cheap, readily available materials such as timber, concrete and fabric to make her work and has consistently reused and recycled these into new pieces.

The hotel draws its design inspiration from traditional Japanese residential structures, with classic Japanese materials such as timber, Washi paper and stone blended to great effect with modern technology and luxurious fabrics.

Natural Resources Funds: These funds invest in oil and gas and other energy sources, as well as timber and forestry.

For example: Starting with the «trees» — trees providing shade, protection (wind, rain, sun), cooling environment, soil health, oxygen, resources such as timber / fibre / woodchips / fuel for humans and shade / homes / food for animals.

Area Elastic — Made up of a hard surface such as timber, vinyl or linoleum, because there is no force reducing properties to the surface, it sits on an undercarriage system that provides force reduction.

The study confirms experience from European heathlands and other REDD + projects in the tropics, that ecosystem services such as timber production and carbon sequestration often compromise other services, such as biodiversity and local livelihoods.

Also, the new codes could, in certain cases, make lightweight cold - formed steel buildings less costly to construct than those made of materials such as timber, concrete or hot - rolled steel.

This group includes tomato, apple and legumes, as well as timber trees such as oak and poplar.»

In the past 30 years this protected region has lost 34 percent of its tree cover to agriculture and cattle ranching as well as timber harvesting.

Many commercially grown trees — fruit trees as well as timber trees such as pine, poplar, and willow — can be maintained as tissue cultures, transferred to soil, and then grown into whole plantations.

He delayed designating house numbers at the project last year, and then rejected nine rather pleasant street names at the project — such as Timber Lane and Lamb Run, and Ambert Heights Drive — that were suggested by the developer.

However, it began a new phase of environmental deterioration with its great and increasing dependence upon non-renewable resources such as fossil fuels and on renewable resources such as timber and food.

The plant closure devastation sweeps far beyond the traditional auto, steel and rubber industries; it affects such industries as timber, canneries, meat - packing, electronics, airlines, cosmetics and department store chains.

Upon hearing a distant thump in an old wooden house as its timbers settle for the evening, Jason and Grant will, quite properly, call out, «Can you do that again, please?»

Not exact matches

AS one out - of - pocket investor left the Pulpwood Plantations meeting last week, he noted that the heads of the fallen bid to take over Great Southern timber schemes could have done something to ease the pain.

The Pulpwood Plantations proposal to take over Great Southern timber schemes was withdrawn today before the official vote was to take place, as attention now turns towards rival bidder Gunns.

Ari Levy, manager of TD Asset Management's resource fund, says eastern timber companies aren't the same as western ones.

Some of the industry's biggest names, such as West Fraser Timber (TSX: WFT), are up 15 % to 20 % over the past 12 months.

As an example of its social impact, TriLinc says revenues for the Chilean timber exporter, certified by the Forest Stewardship Council, have tripled, creating 500 jobs.

But as the United Steelworkers Wood Council pointed out in an op - ed article, China is hungry for raw Canadian logs because Russia cut back on selling it unprocessed timber.

Lumber companies such as West Fraser Timber Co (WFT.TO) and Interfor Corp (IFP.TO) will likely buy private companies in the United States and Canada, Quinn added.

As a senior executive for several institutional fund managers, Stammers was the portfolio manager for a $ 1 billion enhanced real estate fund, a $ 1.2 billion private timber fund, and several pension fund separate accounts.

The FTSE NAREIT Equity REITs Index, which contains 157 publicly traded REITs (as of 2016) that span commercial real estate in the United States, excluding timber and infrastructure REITs.

Customers include the major shippers in the petroleum, chemical and petrochemical industries, as well as those moving fertilizers, minerals, timber, steel, aggregates, agricultural products, consumer goods and intermodal.

Michael Gayed, contributor to ETF Trends, highlighted the Guggenhiem Timber ETF (NYSEArca: CUT), and compared it to the iShares S&P 500 (NYSEArca: IVV) as an indicator of the demand for wood.

Trade in furs, timber and other goods dates back to our earliest experiences as a nation.

You know that we have no one so skilled in felling timber as the Sidonians.»

When cultural trends attempt to render science a sort of religion-less clericalism, scientists are apt to forget that they are made of the same crooked timber as the rest of humanity and will necessarily imperil the work that they do.

It was not merely symbolic; it was a heavy timber designed specifically as His instrument of death.

19th century, archaeological finds (e.g. earth and timber fortifications and towns, the use of a plaster - like cement, ancient roads, metal points and implements, copper breastplates, head - plates, textiles, pearls, native North American inscriptions, North American elephant remains etc.) is not interpreted by mainstream academia as proving the historicity or divinity of the Book of Mormon.This evidence is viewed by mainstream scholars as a work of fiction that parallels others within the 19th century «Mound - builder» genre that were pervasive at the time.