Sentences with phrase «construction sites»

Our road traffic or construction sites, even our talking, fill their ears with low - pitched noise.

One of the firms that has faced complaints is Denko Keibi, which before the disaster used to supply security guards for construction sites.

Poor visibility, people wearing breathing masks, driving bans, closed factories and construction sites: This week, China's capital Beijing for the first time imposed the highest smog alert level.

Conceptual «tipper» truck adds efficiency to construction sites that today's dump trucks can not match

WARNING signals to deter minke whales from wind farm construction sites are being tested in Iceland.

Cornell University researchers factored in the carbon emissions over the course of natural gas's life cycle when it is extracted using hydraulic fracturing — which includes drilling the wells, erecting the construction sites, building pipelines to transport the gas, fueling the pumps that force the water underground, and transporting the wastewater — and concluded that natural gas is dirtier than coal.

«We almost always make major discoveries of new species when construction sites are properly supervised, which suggests that in unregulated areas, we're losing valuable resources forever,» he says.

Its inventors suggest the bot could become a fixture at construction sites.

Ramezani envisages future versions of Bat Bot being used to monitor construction sites and warn workers of impending dangers, but the researchers first need to work out how to make it land safely.

A safety monitoring method called On - Site Visualization has been implemented in metro system construction sites in Jakarta, Indonesia as part of a Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) project.

The state - owned land is to be passed to the Russian Housing Development Foundation, which was created in 2008 to transform underused agricultural land into construction sites for affordable family housing.

Khrushchev's motorcade, with the other Presidium members in tow, turned onto what is now called the M8 highway, and the cranes and suburban construction sites soon gave way to the countryside.

Orbital Insight's analyses also suggest that we should be looking at ghost cities nearer to home — frozen construction sites, uninhabited neighbourhoods, failed building units.

«This is a more energy - efficient and reliable solution since stationary hovering is difficult for quadrotors in the presence of even mild wind — which is common for construction sites.

One potential application of B2 is to supervise construction sites.

Silt - bearing runoff from many activities including construction sites, forestry and farms can inhibit the penetration of sunlight through the water column restricting photosynthesis and causing blanketing of the lake or river bed which in turns damages the ecology.

Bevirt spent hundreds of hours cleaning up nails and performing other odd jobs at construction sites to earn enough for the costly mountain bikes and computers that would feed his technology habit as the years went by.

It's ideal for tools, making it the perfect companion at construction sites.

If you've seen a hurricane, tornado, or super storm, then you know just how much damage they can do to roads, bridges, construction sites, and especially underground subways.

If the popularity of Pinterest and other crafting, engineering, and construction sites and shows are any indication, lots of us love a good DIY project.

With a frame made of high - quality, lightweight steel tubing, it is highly durable and handles well in the most rugged and demanding of environments, be it in heavy forests or at construction sites.

A lightweight drone with features mimicking the wings of bats is an agile flyer and could be used to monitor safety risks at construction sites

The Times Ledger reported that an investigation by DEC found that along with clean soil, the companies dumped unapproved material from other construction sites around the city onto the property where 52 single family homes and a water front park are to be constructed.

Also traffic congestion, lack of coordination at construction sites, participatory budgeting, and fair wages for service employees, eliminating tipping.

One notable example is the Scaffold Law, an 1885 law that makes property owners and contractors liable for any «gravity - related» injuries at construction sites.

Two leaders of the United Hispanic construction workers are pleading not guilty to «charges they threatened and extorted contractors at construction sites in the Manhattan and the Bronx,» according to the Wall Street Journal.

In New York, the issue is heavily tied to the ongoing debate over the safety of union versus nonunion construction sites.

In addition, working on city projects would allow apprentices — at least temporarily — to avoid a common obstacle, the need for a driver's license and a car to travel to construction sites.

Meanwhile, the parents also met in early 2014 with City Councilman Mark Levine (D - Manhattan) to get him to sponsor a bill restricting noise at construction sites within 50 feet of schools and hospitals to no more than 45 decibels.

Commissioner for works, Akparawa Ephraim Inyang - Eyen, made the assertion while fielding questions from reporters after undertaking an inspection tour of construction sites along Etinan - Ndoneyo and Etinan - Eket road projects.

At least eight of those hours will pertain to the dangers of falling workers and objects at construction sites, according to the bill.

These include a revising of the city's construction codes in 2009, creating a unit to inspect stalled construction sites, launching a campaign focused on preventing falls on construction sites and implementing more than 25 new construction safety laws.

From 2015 through September 2017, there've been more than 40 deaths at construction sites in the city.

Edward Hardy, Chief Executive of the Considerate Constructors Scheme said: «One of the Scheme's core principles is to encourage construction sites to become better neighbours by communicating and interacting with their local communities.

Unite: Derek Simpson will warn ultra right wing groups that their politics of hate are not welcome on construction sites across the UK

A weekend of Open Door events inviting members of the public to visit working construction sites is being organised for the autumn by the UK Contractors Group (UKCG), the Industry Training Board and Sector Skills Council, CITB - ConstructionSkills, the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) and the Considerate Constructors Scheme.

The council also voted to double penalties for construction sites with «excessive violations.»

newspaper, noting, among other complaints, that «there are very few African - American men and women working on the construction sites» at state - funded projects in the city.

The one somber detail was a procession of men in black hardhats carrying coffins, symbolizing the — by their count — 16 workers who have died on construction sites in 2015, all but two of whom they claimed were non-union.

As NYC's building boom has taken off, the number of available site - safety inspectors has dropped while the number of workers dying at construction sites has spiked, a Daily News investigation has found.

At 1 p.m., NYC Public Advocate Tish James, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, Gary LaBarbera, president of the Building & Construction Trades Council of Greater NY, other elected officials, and construction workers and advocates rally to demand greater safety measures on construction sites across New York City, Broadway and Barclay Street at City Hall Park, Manhattan.

At 2 p.m., NYC Department of Investigation Commissioner Mark Peters and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. announce fraud in asbestos inspections at construction sites and arrests of certified asbestos investigators, DOI Headquarters, 80 Maiden Lane, 19th floor, Manhattan.

That means they use heat to mold plastics into different forms — like into those orange rectangle - shaped traffic barriers at highway construction sites.

The Chartered Institute of Building brings art to public spaces by offering thought - provoking photography for construction sites Forget corporate logos and advertising - soon the public will be treated to dramatic, eye - catching art galleries on construction sites around the country, thanks to a new initiative from the Chartered Institute of Building.

With its 6,900 members, IUOE Local 825 represents crane, forklift and other heavy equipment operators, mechanics and surveyors who work on construction sites.

And it dates that far back because so many workers were being killed and maimed on construction sites that even in an age when that was the norm, lawmakers in the state at the time realized something had to be done about it.

The episode is not unique; just over a week ago, on October 29th, 218 workers shut down two construction sites of the Lom Pangar Hydroelectric Dam Project in eastern Cameroon.

She understands that construction sites need to be safe and that an honest day of work deserves an honest day of pay,» said said union head Joseph Ramaglia.

The recent unofficial action across construction sites in the UK shows just how frustrated UK based workers are with the employers.

In response to the Health and Safety Executives (HSE) consultation document «Proposals for new Regulations requiring the notification of tower cranes operating on construction sites», the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) feels little can be achieved by the formation of standalone Regulations with regards to tower cranes.