Sentences with phrase «building collapses do»

The idea is not to ensure that buildings emerge undamaged but that building collapses do not become «weapons of mass destruction,» as geologist Roger Bilham of the University of Colorado Boulder and computer scientist Vinod Gaur of CSIR Fourth Paradigm Institute in Bangalore put it in a paper on earthquake risk in the Himalayan region in Science in 2013.

But what's crucial here is to see that even an event as tragic as this building collapse does nothing to impugn the company's integrity.

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FIU had overall responsibility for the project building the pedestrian bridge that collapsed on SW 8th St. FDOT said they had a role in the project but did not oversee it.

They do not collapse because the buildings that happen to surround them are churches.There are no specific explanations given to what actually caused the «malfunction» but it reeks of negligence either on the construction site or to the company that engineered it.

Al Queda already bombed the World Trade Center in NY in 1993 but it did not cause the catastrophic collapse of the buildings they had planned.

And they will not reverse the damage done by two years of deep cuts to long - term projects like house building and the school building programme which have seen a collapse in the construction sector.»

Syracuse, NY - The state Department of Transportation does not know if it can legally knock down a four - story brick building that partially collapsed Friday and detoured Interstate - 81 traffic through Syracuse, a DOT spokesman said Monday.

While changes in escape - stair width, firefighter communications systems and the addition of sky bridges (all noted by Lamster) can only improve life safety in tall buildings, they do not prevent structural collapse resulting from fire.

Field pattern theory does not yet contain a provision for the pattern to collapse back into a single point, however, but Milton and Mattei think that field patterns may have a connection to the basic building blocks of matter.

And although fires did break out in tall buildings, until the World Trade Center attack, no high - rise blaze had led to the actual structural collapse of an entire building.

► A gorilla grows quickly to about 20 feet, roaring into the camera and beating his chest until sanctuary staff place him in a cage; he becomes angry and breaks out, smashing walls, doors, windows and equipment, jumps over a building and into the street, smashing an SUV with his fists, and a man points a tranquilizer rifle but does not shoot; police cars cut the animal off as a helicopter with armed men flies by and they shoot the gorilla with large tranquilizer darts (the gorilla collapses, unconscious).

The environments look fantastic, and while the destructible buildings may not be highly detailed as they collapse, they look good doing it.

We learn that The Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good and Who Wan na Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too collapsed shortly after it was built, killing Derek's baby - mama Matilda and disfiguring Hansel.

We don't start there, however, but instead begin our story in a New York office building, where an unknown middle - aged financier collapses from a heart attack while drinking from a water cooler.

The car did exactly what it was built to do, all of the airbags deployed, The engine compartment collapsed and the engine dropped down.

There's no way you can add «build a massive following on Facebook» to your to - do list without eventually collapsing on your desk from lack of sleep.

In 2003 the Old Man of the Mountain collapsed and sometimes when debt builds up, finances are nowhere to be found and you don't know where to turn, you might feel like the Old Man of the Mountain of New Hampshire, and want to collapse.

Rey Akdogan does it with metal tiling as incomplete as that of Carl Andre, Olof Inger with trash bags converted into the painting of light and space, Gabriel Kuri with black slabs crushing beer or soda cans like a Richard Serra that collapsed during an opening, Charlotte Posenenske with heat ducts as building blocks, Cameron Rowland with shelving brackets as line drawing, and Jean - Luc Moulène with rebar as an open cage.

The way I've figured to go about doing this through objects is to always try to surprise myself, decision by decision, as I build each painting with the hope that the viewing experience mimics this process, meaning that I hope that the painting unfolds, collapses, comes back together and unfolds again in a different way as the viewer navigates through it.

It's a really interesting show, though it does start with two painters that I can't get too excited about: Tomma Abts, who won the Turner Prize in 2006 and who's rarely exhibited in the UK since, and Simon Ling, a figurative painter who paints buildings that look on the verge of collapse.

buildings do collapse under such force.

72 Nigel The jet fuel exploding did not do the damage, it was the loss of strength in the building structural steel, due to heat of the burning jet fuel which caused the collapse.

But don't be tempted to write off high death counts from building collapses in shaky developing countries as simply another unavoidable consequence of poverty.

Japan is prone to major earthquakes and buildings and other structures are designed accordingly, as was well demonstrated, they had done very well in this regard with few major building collapses.

97 % of geologists saying that a region is earthquake - prone leads to reasonable cities (and insurance companies) enforcing building codes designed to ensure buildings don't collapse when an earthquake hits.

Why did so many modern buildings collapse, people wonder.

«Imagine a parent who says, «I never let my child go indoors, because I don't want them to be killed if there is an earthquake and the building collapses.

If the foundation depth is too short, for instance, the building would collapse before it was even completed, so you can be reasonably sure that part was done properly if the building is standing at all.

We go in, do all the engineering, determine what the loads are for that building, design the system, install the system, and we can pinpoint exactly where there's an overload condition and the building owners warrant before they have a collapse.

property was build in approx. 1930's and I doubt any repiping has been done, line has collapsed and needs completely replacing according to the several plumbers ive recieved bid on.

Not only did their own facility flood, but another building behind theirs ended up collapsing on top of the association headquarters.