Sentences with phrase «local construction materials»

Ships travelling north from Britain to buy sheep would carry cargoes of corrugated iron to sell in Reykjavik, where it quickly became clear that the material was well suited to the isolated volcanic island with limited local construction materials.

«Eventually, when human beings populate Mars, we'll have to find local construction materials... you can't ship everything from Earth,» says professor Yu Qiao, a materials scientist who works at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and part of the team who just published on the topic in the open - access journal Scientific Reports.

BI: Like «The Martian», «Artemis» struck me as very realistic — the claustrophobic hallways in lower - income areas, the local construction materials, the chemistry...

Not exact matches

Following in its namesake's sustainability efforts, The Brando plans to use local materials in its construction and renewable energies such as solar energy and coconut oil.

Our modular production units create construction materials out of recycled plastic and local organic inputs.

Walker's bill would exempt construction materials from the state and local sales tax and hand the company up to $ 2.85 billion in tax credits based on the number on the number of jobs generated.

Hall's group has developed a recipe book of melt glass for any geographic location based on a «witch's brew» of the bomb's fissile material and explosive yield, its detonation point, and the local geology and construction materials.

Most notable is clearer determination of the nature of the radiation hazard from the thorium - rich minerals found in the local soil and rock and use in construction material in Baley.

Once the postgame buzz dies down, the stadium plans to donate leftover food to a local food bank and repurpose décor and construction materials.

Catalina senior Jerry Soto landed a job last summer with a local construction company, making ductwork and other materials for buildings.

This type architecture is based on localized needs and construction materials, and reflecting local traditions.

The district has teamed with the American Lung Association, the University of Minnesota, and local architecture and engineering firms, creating a set of IAQ guidelines for the design of new facilities, construction practices, and selection of materials and furnishings.

Examples of such entities include state departments of transportation; local governments; transit agencies; special authorities; special districts; railroad companies; and private firms or consortia that may include companies specializing in engineering, construction, materials, and / or the operation of transportation facilities.

Local regulations that control design, construction, and materials used in construction.

We chosed this kind of construction because wood suits the local weather conditions and keeps the air cool even on the warmest days, avoiding the big waste of energy from air conditioned rooms and using local materials at the same time.

The simple application of timber, terrazzo, natural colors, fabrics and local materials, the Standard and Poor «reed grass Used in the construction of the roofs, is consistent throughout the property.

It was re-built with local materials using Ottoman construction techniques, stones from local quarries and original material recovered by Hungarian army divers from the river.

Our group of Fathom Travelers worked with members of IDDI as well as local construction workers to mix the materials needed to make the cement, shovel it into buckets, pass buckets into the house and pour the cement onto the dirt floors.

For its construction only sustainable materials such as local wood products including teak, acacia and cedar for floor and ceiling has been used.

The local staff working in the restaurant, driving the speed boats, and making up the rooms come from villages on nearby islands, and all helped in the construction of the resort, which is mostly furnished with handcrafted items made from driftwood materials.

In 2005, the artist opened lesser new york in her Williamsburg loft, which was a response to Greater New York (2005) but it was lesser; it was a greater response to the lesser limits of the art world that she saw reflected in PS1's concurrent survey; this lesser exhibit / installation was organized under the auspices of a «fia backström production,» a lesser production of curated ephemera such as press releases, invites, posters, and so on culled from found materials and the work of a greater local network of friends and peers; the lesser aesthetics of dejecta, pasted directly onto the walls, reflects a greater decorative pattern, not unlike Rorschach images of a lesser art industry itself within a critique of a greater institutional relationship to art production; as such, the lesser display of curated ephemera (from nonartists and artists alike) not only comments on the greater vortex of art and capital, but also serves as a lesser gesture toward something like a memorial wall, not unlike a collection of posters on the greater Berlin Wall, or a lesser improvisational 9 - 11 wall, or, more recently, a greater Facebook wall, or the lesser construction wall surrounding the Second Avenue gas explosion in the East Village, all pointing to a lesser memorial for the greater commodified institution of art consumption; whereas in Backström's lesser new york each move repels consumption by both the lesser value of the pasted paper and its repetition, which dispels the greater value of precious originals; so the act of reinstalling lesser new yorkten years later at Greater New York — the very institution that rejected her a decade earlier — speaks to the nefarious long arm of Capitalism that can morph into an owner of its own critique; so that lesser new york is greater than its initial critique, greater than a work of institutional critique: it is a continuous institutional relationship, a lesser critique that keeps on giving in its new contexts; the collective spirit of artists working together playfully is lesser, whereas the critique of how artists can imagine working alongside the institution is greater, or vice versa; the lesser gesture of a curated mixed - media installation in one's home with no clear identification and no commercial validity becomes untethered when it is greater, and this particular lesser becomes greater in the Greater New York (2015) context; still, the instabilities of the organizing systems by Backström continue to put pressure on both the defining features of art production in both the lesser context and the decade - later greater one; further, the greater question of what constitutes an art as a lesser art becomes a dizzying conundrum when the greater art institution frames the lesser to be greater, when the lesser is invested in its lesser relationship to the greater.

Using recycled materials found on local loading docks and in alleyways, Washburn creates post-Minimalist constructions that appear as swells of urban refuse.

Afterwards, these materials (which have been altered with Day - Glo orange or yellow paint) are returned to their source, often used in local retail and home construction.

Local housewife Gina (Michelle Williams) compensates for a distant husband and a petulant teenage daughter with the construction of a customized new house from the ground up, using only «authentic» materials.

Hassan Sharif sourced materials, such as copper, from construction sites and local markets in his native Dubai and transformed them into abstract sculptures such as Car Parking (2015).

One Planet Living principle Masdar Target ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local values.

Toilets for People, in partnership with local NGO's, offers on - location programs which include training and composting toilet construction & installation using local materials and labor.

For example, during the construction phases, economic activity increases substantially in the community due to purchases of materials, equipment, meals, etc, as well as rentals and subcontracts to local businesses.

In a sustainable building design, sustainable materials and construction methods are used for building, and the natural energy sources available from your local climate are used to help meet the need for heating, cooling, and lighting.

You are right on with this comment, my concern for building more efficiently is that it is possible to build energy efficiency into a structure and do so affordably, however the market today tells us that we have to have this or that to green build a home when we do not have to have such things, everything we need is already within the local marketplace of construction materials.

Already, local companies from restaurants to hotels to gas stations to hardware stores to equipment rentals to gravel companies to engineers are hard at work supplying materials and services to the construction effort.

Also, before current construction techniques were prevalent, the natives built (and still build in many parts of the world) structures with material and techniques that adapted to the local weather conditions — what logic!

The materials used for construction are a mix of local stone, steel, glass, and concrete chosen keeping in mind the climatic needs of the region while retaining the progressive design intent.

The materials chosen for construction are readily available through local distributors.

Donovan Rypkema has noted that renovation and restoration uses twice as much labor, and half as much material as new construction; with windows, it is almost 100 percent labour and it is pretty much all local.

Spanish collective Basurama arrived in Niamey, Niger, to assist locals in the construction of new leisure spaces with local, low cost materials.

The construction materials had to be local, the factory had to be built by hand by local carpenters and they couldn't rely on electricty.

Rypkema points out that new construction is about 50 - 50 labour and materials, whereas restoration and renovation can be as much as 75 % labour - for every dollar spent you get twice as much local employment, and use about half the resources.

Applicants will be able to seek local approval through Section R104.11 «The provisions of this code are not intended to prevent the installation of any material or to prohibit any design or method of construction not specifically prescribed by this code, provided that any such alternative has been approved.

«TCC claims 2.1 The following are examples of the types of claim which it may be appropriate to bring as TCC claims --(a) building or other construction disputes, including claims for the enforcement of the decisions of adjudicators under the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996; (b) engineering disputes; (c) claims by and against engineers, architects, surveyors, accountants and other specialised advisers relating to the services they provide; (d) claims by and against local authorities relating to their statutory duties concerning the development of land or the construction of buildings; (e) claims relating to the design, supply and installation of computers, computer software and related network systems; (f) claims relating to the quality of goods sold or hired, and work done, materials supplied or services rendered; (g) claims between landlord and tenant for breach of a repairing covenant; (h) claims between neighbours, owners and occupiers of land in trespass, nuisance etc; (i) claims relating to the environment (for example, pollution cases); (j) claims arising out of fires; (k) claims involving taking of accounts where these are complicated; and (l) challenges to decisions of arbitrators in construction and engineering disputes including applications for permission to appeal and appconstruction disputes, including claims for the enforcement of the decisions of adjudicators under the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996; (b) engineering disputes; (c) claims by and against engineers, architects, surveyors, accountants and other specialised advisers relating to the services they provide; (d) claims by and against local authorities relating to their statutory duties concerning the development of land or the construction of buildings; (e) claims relating to the design, supply and installation of computers, computer software and related network systems; (f) claims relating to the quality of goods sold or hired, and work done, materials supplied or services rendered; (g) claims between landlord and tenant for breach of a repairing covenant; (h) claims between neighbours, owners and occupiers of land in trespass, nuisance etc; (i) claims relating to the environment (for example, pollution cases); (j) claims arising out of fires; (k) claims involving taking of accounts where these are complicated; and (l) challenges to decisions of arbitrators in construction and engineering disputes including applications for permission to appeal and appConstruction and Regeneration Act 1996; (b) engineering disputes; (c) claims by and against engineers, architects, surveyors, accountants and other specialised advisers relating to the services they provide; (d) claims by and against local authorities relating to their statutory duties concerning the development of land or the construction of buildings; (e) claims relating to the design, supply and installation of computers, computer software and related network systems; (f) claims relating to the quality of goods sold or hired, and work done, materials supplied or services rendered; (g) claims between landlord and tenant for breach of a repairing covenant; (h) claims between neighbours, owners and occupiers of land in trespass, nuisance etc; (i) claims relating to the environment (for example, pollution cases); (j) claims arising out of fires; (k) claims involving taking of accounts where these are complicated; and (l) challenges to decisions of arbitrators in construction and engineering disputes including applications for permission to appeal and appconstruction of buildings; (e) claims relating to the design, supply and installation of computers, computer software and related network systems; (f) claims relating to the quality of goods sold or hired, and work done, materials supplied or services rendered; (g) claims between landlord and tenant for breach of a repairing covenant; (h) claims between neighbours, owners and occupiers of land in trespass, nuisance etc; (i) claims relating to the environment (for example, pollution cases); (j) claims arising out of fires; (k) claims involving taking of accounts where these are complicated; and (l) challenges to decisions of arbitrators in construction and engineering disputes including applications for permission to appeal and appconstruction and engineering disputes including applications for permission to appeal and appeals.»

Insurance companies rate your home based on factors such as replacement costs, the city and / or county where you live, your claims history, your credit history, construction materials and local fire protection.

In some cases, a local ordinance may require you to use certain building materials or construction methods if you repair or replace damaged property.

There are numerous industries that create the demand for local truck driving jobs, from livestock to construction materials... Read More

There are numerous industries that create the demand for local truck driving jobs, from livestock to construction materials.

Expertise lies in the financial and material management of design and development projects, from procuring resources during the planning stages, to subcontracting jobs to third parties, to coordinating with local transportation authorities during construction periods.

• Provide construction site security and diligently monitor all local and third - country nationals to successfully oversee all equipment and materials safety and provide loss prevention initiatives.

• In depth understanding of the local and federal building construction policies and legalities • Knowledgeable of structural systems in steel and concrete • Excellent grasping skills and ability to understand and follow written and verbal instructions • Matchless negotiation skills and ability to communicate effectively with third party suppliers for procurement of construction material

KCI Technologies, Inc., Sparks • MD 10/2008 — 8/2012 Senior Architectural Project Manager Ensure an allowance for space, materials and fixtures to be used allows access for physically handicapped individuals and other elements are consistent with design and construction criteria for the facility as well as the local jurisdiction.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Washington Group International (WGI), Bagram • Afghanistan 2011 — Present Security Provide construction site security and diligently monitor all local and third - country nationals to successfully oversee all equipment and materials safety and provide loss prevention initiatives.