The Lingotto, once the main factory of the automobile manufacturer FIAT, was designed in the 1920s by engineer Matté Trucco; the one million
cubic meter building was famous for its imposing industrial architecture as well as for the futuristic vehicle test track placed on its rooftop.
Not exact matches
In a herculean effort, authorities have so far scooped up some 9 million
cubic meters of contaminated soil and leaves and washed down
buildings and roadways with the goal of reducing outdoor radiation exposure to 0.23 microsieverts per hour.
The fires didn't cause any additional damage to
buildings, but one incinerated 18,000
cubic meters of material, enough to fill about seven Olympic - size swimming pools.
For example, meeting growing demand by finding a new source of water or by
building a new dam in a place like California could cost up to 60 cents per
cubic meter of water.
And just where all the fuel and other radioactive solid debris on the site will be stored or disposed of long - term has yet to be decided; last month the site's ninth solid waste storage
building, with a capacity of about 61,000
cubic meters, went into operation.
Private companies are planning to
build more than 30 other plants, capable of producing as much as 200 million
cubic meters of natural gas each year — far exceeding China's current natural gas demand.
Opened in 2004, the museum is housed in a 17,700 square
meters cubic building, designed by the Danish architects Schmidt Hammer Lassen.
The
building will have 455,000 M2 of space (4.9 million SF) and be
built from 185,000
cubic meters of wood, which is enough to
built 8,000 single family homes.
For comparison's sake, A 66 + - billion
cubic meter per year pipeline is only slightly larger than the 54 billion
cubic meter Nordstream pipeline Russia's already
built and is now operating to deliver natural gas supplies to directly to Germany via the Baltic Sea.
China is already
building a 60 - billion
cubic meter per year natural gas hub in Guangdong Province to import natural gas by land by pipeline from as far away as Turkmenistan, as well as provide domestic distribution for Liquid Natural Gas delivered by sea from Australia, Indonesia and the Middle East.
Whether it was jet fuel or gasoline burnt and exhausted to the atmosphere, coal burnt to produce electricity, or even the millions of
cubic meters of concrete used to
build hydroelectric dams, the hallmark of twentieth - century development was an increased carbon footprint.
Our life - size LEGO Empire State
Buildings have a volume of about 900,000
cubic meters, close to that of the real thing.
Measured in Becquerels per
cubic meter (Bq / m3), radon exists in low levels in most environments, with an average outdoor level of 10 Bq / m3 and indoor level of 45 Bq / m3, a difference explained by the
build - up of radon that confined spaces allow.