Sentences with phrase «construction of barriers»

Adaptation Action that helps cope with the effects of climate change - for example construction of barriers to protect against rising sea levels, or conversion to crops capable of surviving high temperatures and drought.

Action that helps cope with the effects of climate change - for example construction of barriers to protect against rising sea levels, or conversion to crops capable of surviving high temperatures and drought.

On February 20, 2004 the World Council of Churches demanded that Israel halt and reverse construction on the barrier and strongly condemned «violations of human rights and humanitarian consequences» that resulted from the construction of the barrier.

Earlier this week, Trump signed dictates to sever funding for so - called «sanctuary cities» and to initiate construction of a barrier along the Mexican border.

But it turns out that the barrier, which was originally only intended to last until 2030, on the basis of up to 8 mm sea level rise a year — much more than what we have seen since the construction of the barrier in the early 1980s — and will be replaced in 2070.

Not exact matches

That plastic sheet might be converted into any number of seemingly unrelated products: a flexible bag to package nuts for retail sale; a liner (officially a «geomembrane») meant to sit atop a water reservoir; or a vapour barrier used in walls in newly built residential construction projects.

He's seeking $ 18 billion to $ 20 billion over 10 years for border security, as part of a fiscal 2019 spending package, and part of that would pay for construction of new and replacement barriers.

At the Department of Homeland Security's estimate of the wall's construction at $ 21.6 billion, a solar - powered barrier would eventually pay for itself (if it continues to produce over $ 106 million per year of electricity), Grieser says.

Inspection and holding stations were created after that, followed by the construction of miles of fences with barbed wire and steel barriers over the next few decades.

Getting over that conventional wisdom of «construction toys are only for boys» was a huge barrier at first and still continues to be a barrier.

Less than half the nearly 95 miles of border construction, including levees along the Rio Grande in Texas, would be for new barriers, with the rest for repair of existing segments.

Israeli authorities say the barrier is a temporary measure which has halted a spate of suicide bombings by Palestinians since construction began in 2002.

That NASCAR hasn't had a fatality in one of its three national divisions since 2001 is a testament to its steadfast commitment to safety, including requiring drivers to wear head - and - neck restraints, tracks to install energy - absorbent barriers, and stringent rules covering the construction of cars so that when a crash does occur the driver doesn't bear the brunt of the impact.

However, what Naturepedic is known for is their innovative natural design and intelligent mattress construction, which allows for Naturepedic to pass all Federal and State flammability standards without the use of flame retardant chemicals or barriers.

Furthermore, at the same time as Sharon planned this unilateral withdrawal, he laid the groundwork for the construction of a «separation barrier» that would ensure the expansion of Israel's future borders beyond the internationally recognized Green Line.

This is about their pure self - interest: the concern that someone who lives near the construction will vote against Hannon or Phillips because there is too much noise or inconvenience in eliminating deadly crossings or erecting state - of - the - art sound barriers — ones that will actually stop the noise.

Croce says contractors should be on site in the coming weeks and scaffolding, fencing and sidewalk barriers on the Delaware Avenue side of building could come down by the end of construction season.

The bill would provide $ 1.6 billion in funding to U.S. Customs and Border Protection for procurement, construction and improvement of a barrier along the southern U.S. border.

As investigators with the commission state: «The spill presented an opportunity for state and parish officials to facilitate construction of a large - scale, temporary oil spill response measure whose purpose might, they believed, «pivot» to permanent restoration of Louisiana's barrier islands - with BP footing the bill.»

For Glen Roy to function as a lake would require the construction of a huge barrier, several miles long and nearly half a mile high, to block off the valley's mouth and retain the waters within.

(C) mitigate the destructive impact of ocean - related climate change effects, including effects on bays, estuaries, populated barrier islands and other ocean - related features, through a variety of means and measures, including the construction of jetties, levies, and other coastal structures in densely populated coastal areas impacted by climate change.

The FHWA's TNM is used for designing highway noise barriers and informing the federal distribution of noise mitigation funds related to highway noise barrier construction.

-- If final regulations have not been issued pursuant to this section, for new construction or alterations for which a valid and appropriate State or local building permit is obtained prior to the issuance of final regulations under this section, and for which the construction or alteration authorized by such permit begins within one year of the receipt of such permit and is completed under the terms of such permit, compliance with the Uniform Federal Accessibility Standards in effect at the time the building permit is issued shall suffice to satisfy the requirement that facilities be readily accessible to and usable by persons with disabilities as required under section 303, except that, if such final regulations have not been issued one year after the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board has issued the supplemental minimum guidelines required under section 504 (a) of this Act, compliance with such supplemental minimum guidelines shall be necessary to satisfy the requirement that facilities be readily accessible to and usable by persons with disabilities prior to issuance of the final regulations.

Airport development means --(1) Any work involved in constructing, improving, or repairing a public airport or portion thereof, including the removal, lowering, relocation, and marking and lighting of airport hazards, and including navigation aids used by aircraft landing at, or taking off from, a public airport, and including safety equipment required by rule or regulation for certification of the airport under section 612 of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, and security equipment required of the sponsor by the Secretary by rule or regulation for the safety and security of persons and property on the airport, and including snow removal equipment, and including the purchase of noise suppressing equipment, the construction of physical barriers, and landscaping for the purpose of diminishing the effect of aircraft noise on any area adjacent to a public airport; (2) Any acquisition of land or of any interest therein, or of any easement through or other interest in airspace, including land for future airport development, which is necessary to permit any such work or to remove or mitigate or prevent or limit the establishment of, airport hazards; and (3) Any acquisition of land or of any interest therein necessary to insure that such land is used only for purposes which are compatible with the noise levels of the operation of a public airport.

He looks not just at the barrier that partitioned a city, and the human stories of those effected by the Wall, but also at the global politics behind its construction in 1961, 16 years after the war had ended and 13 years after Stalin's failed attempt to seal off the city had been foiled by the Berlin airlift.

She's adept at avoiding kids on scooters, people bustling by, construction barriers and the distraction of yapping pet dogs on flexi leads.

There has been considerable controversy over the construction of this course, as some environmentalists believe that a golf course — which typically requires large applications of fertilizer and pesticides — could pose a danger, though run - off, to the ecologies of the barrier reef and sea.

A strip of wood, painted in diagonal stripes like a barrier at a construction site, serves as a warning, but of what?

Brooklyn, NY — March 13, 2018 — Through shifts in scale and substitutions of materials, sculptor Noah Loesberg recontextualizes items from construction trades, architectural details, patent drawings, illuminated manuscripts and for this exhibition, concrete highway barriers.

Stacked for concise storage, highway barriers, although used for safety and traffic control, are usually a sign of road construction and therefore annoying delays as we speed along the highway.

Taking the construction site as a point of departure, López appropriates elements of urban infrastructure from chain - link fencing to orange mesh barriers to lane markers for her graphic intervention in the space.

Bill Mea then passed the maroon and gold floral wreath over the construction barrier surrounding Cooper Square, and it was placed on the statue of Peter Cooper, as is tradition.

The materials and colors are those of construction and safety barriers, emblems of engagement in a concerted activity and also a measure of protection within it.

This immense, painterly construction - marrying, obscuring and partially revealing layers of colour, draws a profound analogy with Germany's own ideological and physical barrier.

St. John deftly assembles a body of visual language that many Americans will recognize: a lamppost plastered with a disarray of posters, graffitied construction site barriers, and campaign stickers, which have their seriousness diffused by images of alluring young bodies.

Twice removed from reality, Partegàs's photographs document images appearing on vinyl barriers around construction sites, as well as a point where the fictional subsumes any trace of the real.

Back in 2007 I wrote a post looking at the closures of the Thames Barrier since construction finished in 1983.

Experts decry the practice of building levees to shield new construction from risks because water displaced by such barriers must, thanks to gravity and hydrology, go somewhere else.

These are only partly natural phenomena and they have been made worse by settlement decisions, canal development, loss of barrier wetlands, extraction of groundwater, oil, and natural gas, internal rainfall storage, and the design, construction, and failure of protective structures and inside levees rainfall storage.

General understanding of building design and construction, including vapour barriers, insulation values, etc..

(C) mitigate the destructive impact of ocean - related climate change effects, including effects on bays, estuaries, populated barrier islands and other ocean - related features, through a variety of means and measures, including the construction of jetties, levies, and other coastal structures in densely populated coastal areas impacted by climate change.

Roof: The main roof construction consists of fi bre cement slates on timber rafters, with 600 mm Rockwool insulation at ceiling level, a taped plywood airtightness barrier and services voids under, with a plasterboard finish.

A big flood resiliency effort, starting with the 3 billion dollar construction of a 10 foot high, two mile long flood barrier in 2017, is underway.

1 Oscar Baldry getting down to work in the old newsagent's shop; 2 laying Kingspan and Ecotherm insulation in the ground floor of the old shop; 3 first floor metal web joist detailing, with membrane behind the joists for airtightness; 4 ground floor walls feature 50 mm Xtratherm internal insulation; 5 this is followed inside by an Intello vapour control barrier and a further 25 mm Xtratherm; 6 the new timber frame first - floor twin - stud walls and roof rafters are of a fully breathable construction and full - filled with Warmcel cellulose insulation; 7 holes in the timber - frame where the Warmcel insulation was pumped in; 8 a pro clima Intello membrane on the inside of the first - floor walls and roof; 9 and finally, 50 mm Thermafleece (sheep wool) lined service cavity to the interior.

One's inability to repeat experiments is no barrier to the construction of an information theoretically optimal model.

... According to a review by Lovich and Ennen (2013), the construction and operation of wind farms have both potential and known impacts on terrestrial vertebrates, such as: (i) increase in direct mortality due to traffic collisions; (ii) destruction and modification of the habitat, including road development, habitat fragmentation and barriers to gene flow; (iii) noise effects, visual impacts, vibration and shadow flicker effects from turbines; (iv) electromagnetic field generation; (v) macro and microclimate change; (vi) predator attraction; and (vii) increase in fire risks.

The adoption of a uniform national grid access code has reduced barriers to interstate pipeline construction and closed gaps in the national gas grid.

By using a raft of measures including altering piling schedules, air - filled tubes, hydro - sound dampeners, and even utilizing bubbles as a barrier against underwater sound waves, the research — published by WWF and conducted by SMRU Consulting — suggests that a drop of even 8 decibels in construction noise could reduce the chance of a 1 % annual drop in North Sea porpoise populations.

When car crashes occur in construction zones they can be the direct result of improper warning signs, out of place cones or barriers, incorrectly diverted traffic and other issues.

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