Sentences with phrase «of tall buildings»

He is also the Founder of High Rise Facilities, a website and magazine for owners and managers of tall buildings.

High levels of public transport density are usually accompanied by higher levels of traffic - related noise and air pollution, especially in urban environments typified by a concentration of tall buildings.54 Both excessive traffic - related noise and air pollution have been linked to stress, inability to psychologically restore and depression.55 56 One of the main features included in the measure of street connectivity used in this study was the presence of bridges, overpasses or tunnels.

The drone looks like four quadcopter tethered together — using this configuration, the craft can put out fires, perform search and rescue missions and clean the sides of tall buildings.

Many rows of tall buildings are organised into blocks which resist any natural breeze.

(4) Shaw, C.Y. and Tamura, G.T.; Studies on Exterior Wall Air Tightness and Air Infiltration of Tall Buildings, ASHRAE Transactions, Vol 82, 1976.

One of the most vocal advocates for the use of CLT in the construction of tall buildings is British Columbia architect Michael Green, who starred a few years ago in a series of wood - building videos sponsored by the Washington Forest Protection Association, the Washington Contract Loggers Association, the Family Forest Foundation and the Washington Farm Forestry Association.

The city of Yakuza Kiwami consists of a very Urban environment made up of tall buildings, alleys, and tight crowded streets.

I live in the desert literally so there ain't no fancy photo shots of tall buildings etc to show you guys.

I have collected together 30 photos of tall buildings and structures for you to discuss with your class.

For example, a student's questions about the construction of tall buildings quickly transformed the block area in our classroom into a place to investigate and test the children's theories about building skyscrapers.

«CLT and mass timber more generally are part of a massive trend in architecture and construction, but the seismic performance of tall buildings made from these kinds of wood is uncharted waters.»

After 50 cycles of harmonic vibration — skyscrapers swaying rhythmically from side to side in giddy wobbles — dozens of tall buildings have shed most of their glass.

«It would create a canyon of tall buildings around the High Line,» she said.

It's almost unnerving — there's something off, in a good way, about a metropolis with tons of tall buildings and millions of people being so peaceful.

Scheduled for completion in 2017, it will dwarf the iconic Transamerica Pyramid and assume the mantle of tallest building west of the Mississippi.

Take a photo of a tall building, and you might notice that it looks a bit like it's leaning, or even warped.

The tower is still in the planning stage, but if it is build, it will be the sixth tallest structure in the UK, and exceed the height of the tallest building, the Shard in London, by at least ten metres.

Without the spire, One World Trade Center would actually be shorter than the Willis Tower in Chicago, which currently wears the crown of tallest building in the U.S. at 1,451 feet, not including its own antennas.

In a feature from the business section entitled «Les villes chinoises veulent toutes leurs gratte - ciel géants,» La Mondetakes note of the phenomenon that is the skyscraper - dense Chinese city, and specifically, the completion of Shanghai Tower, now one of the tallest buildings in Asia.

You should stand on the roof of the tallest building you know of and try and fly... just remember to wear a parachute... ok.

From the top of a tall building a brick falls on his head killing him.

If you don't believe it controls you because you are so special, please, go to the top of the tallest building without a parachute or any other means to fly or defy gravity, jump off and try to change your destined death with your free will, because you see yourself as outside that power and totally in control of your own fate.

The sun is only just kissing the tips of the tallest buildings, while cars zip by in the shadows below.

First, a basin underneath Kathmandu, filled with half a kilometer of soft sediments, amplified the shaking of taller buildings; and second, a gentle, slow onset to the earthquake's rupture limited the types of waves that would have shaken shorter buildings.

Near the top of a tall building, there's nothing to stop the flow.

One of the tallest buildings around, there is a cosy bar with a view of the city high on the 27th floor.

Raiden takes out an attack chopper from the roof of a tall building before taking a plunge down an elevator shaft.

Ultimately, the believer (Wilson) forces the non-believer (Hunnam) onto the ledge of a tall building.

A man falls from the side of a tall building after a struggle.

When Hunt is forced to freeclimb up the outside of the tallest building the world — the Burj Khalifa in Dubai — with only the help of one of those science - fictional gadgets, which doesn't work as well as it should, I was laughing with delight as well as gasping in shared panic, it's that breathtakingly intimate while at the same time putting you right in the middle of big, heady action, innovative stuff we haven't seen before.

The poor sap who hired these losers might have just as well climbed to the top of a tall building and emptied a box of business cards into the wind.

If you work long hours or if you live on the last floor of a tall building, your puppy may have not yet attained sufficient bladder and bowel control to hold it long enough to wait for you to come home or take him down several flights of stairs.

Bladder problems may be caused by either infectious agents such as viruses, bacteria, mycoplasma or fungi, crystals in the urine, noninfectious conditions such as interstitial cystitis, as well as from trauma such as being hit by a car or falling out of a tall building and injuring their back.

The helicopter pad on the roof of its tallest building confirms the high - end status of Diamond Plaza.

I had been to the top of the tallest building in the world!

The Novotel Canary Wharf is situated at 40 Marsh Street and at 127 metres high is set to be one of the tallest buildings in the area.

Lamanai has one of the tallest buildings found in the Mayan world (112 feet) and the views from the top are breathtaking.

Some of the tallest buildings in Australia are in Sydney such as Governor Phillip Tower, MLC Centre and World Tower.

The new property, called the Shangri - La Hotel, at the Shard, London, is located on the 34th to 52nd floors of the tallest building in western Europe, and is the first high - rise hotel in London.

The view from the lounge is a little better as you get to see some of the taller buildings in Bangkok, but again there really isn't much to see.

The volcanic ash that fell over the city covered everything except some of the roofs of the taller buildings.

This table lists buildings that once held the title of tallest building in Mobile as well as the current titleholder, the RSA Battle House Tower.

The hotel, which is yet to be named, will take over the top 15 floors of the tallest building of the development and will include around 280 rooms and suites, all with beautiful views of the city.

In the right location of Lubaantun, such as the top of the tallest building, one can see the Caribbean Sea.

As Las Rias is one of the tallest buildings in Noosa, the views from here are spectacular.

Located at the end of the corniche beach road, across the stunning Emirates Palace hotel, are two of the tallest buildings in the emirate, known as Etihad Towers.

The site is one of the most popular Maya ruins in Belize and is home to the fascinating El Castillo Pyramid, one of the tallest buildings in the country at 130 ft.

Taking over the crown of London's tallest building from Canary Wharf's One Canada Square at it's completion in 2012, it also boasts the title of tallest building in the..

Towering over the city, the five - star hotel Swissotel Krasnye Holmy is one of the tallest buildings in Moscow.

In another instance, I tossed Cappy at the railings of a tall building in order to quickly get to the top of it.