Sentences with phrase «pound per square foot»

«At a certain pound per square foot, we're out,» she said.

Chipotle as part of the announcement also said that it would give its chickens more space (6 pounds per square foot), provide them with improved lighting and litter in their housing, and change how its chickens are slaughtered to a practice pushed for by animal welfare activists.

So - called extensive roofs have fairly thin cross sections, including perhaps three inches of soil - like growing material; they weigh from 15 to 25 pounds per square foot when saturated and support low - lying plants.

This vast sprawl of systems, materials and structures has a mass of about 30 trillion tons, which would mean 10 pounds per square foot (50 kilograms per square meter) if spread evenly over Earth's surface.

This system allows them to bind to surfaces extremely well: large accumulations of mussels can weigh as much as 1,700 pounds per square foot.

As if a green roof inside a ballpark wasn't a unique enough aspect of the project, the metal roof deck the system was being installed on would only support 25 pounds per square foot for the entire system.

The roof couldn't take much load, so «Lisa Rapoport of Plant Architect came up with a clever solution: she installed a sliver of a green roof, only three pounds per square foot.

She designed a complex and elegant sliver of a green roof that weighs barely three pounds per square foot, but will definitely improve the view.

- it is heavy at 15 to 18 pounds per square foot - can your roof take it?

• Strengthened floors, able to bear 100 pounds per square foot, compared with 50 pounds per square foot in a typical office building.

Not exact matches

LaRue roasts 2,300 pounds of coffee beans per hour in a massive automatic roasting machine at its 120,000 - square - foot headquarters.

The company grew six pounds of mushrooms per square foot of growing bed area, which amounts to 15 million pounds annually.

The proposed rule would also require poultry houses to provide at least one square foot of space per every 2.25 pounds of hen — a proposal that comes as consumer concern over animal welfare is at an all - time high.

Poultry, rabbit, sheep, and goat manures are higher in nutrient content and should be applied at the rate of 200 to 400 pounds per 1,000 square feet of garden.

Aged or composted steer manure provides low to moderate applications of nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorous, and can be applied at the rate of 500 to 1,000 pounds per 1,000 square feet of garden.

The following week, the explorers descended again, this time to 1,426 feet, where the ocean leaned on their vessel with more than 650 pounds per square inch.

The resulting mudlike slurry is then pumped under 400 pounds per square inch of pressure to the plant's most novel feature, the 300 - foot - tall gasification tower.

The pedestrian walkway stands approximately 220 feet above the San Francisco Bay, and, according to an article in The New Yorker (2003), «Jumpers who hit the water do so at about seventy - five miles an hour and with a force of fifteen thousand pounds per square inch.

For those who think it is a meaningful number, at 45,000 pounds for the four metre diameter, that is $ 88,641 for 135 square feet, or US$ 656 per square foot, although we do not include the area of the loft.

That is actually the same price per pound as a BMW Series 2 Coupe; you can do your own price per square foot calculation.

Preferred habitat: prairies + + + + Foliage / winter appearance: dormant in winter + + + + Soil conditions: loam, clay, tolerates poor drainage + + + + Light conditions: partial shade to full sun + + + + Plant spacing: 1/2 to 2 pounds of pure live seed per 1,000 square feet, or 3 to 4 feet apart for accents.

Preferred habitat: prairies + + + + Foliage / winter appearance: dormant in winter + + + + Soil conditions: loam, clay, tolerates poor drainage + + + + Light conditions: partial shade to full sun + + + + Plant spacing: 1/2 to 2 pounds of pure live seed per 1,000 square feet, or 2 feet apart for garden accent + + + + Wildlife value: important forage grass, butterfly larval food plant, wood nymph larvae eat it

Preferred habitat: moist or seasonally moist open places + + + + Foliage / winter appearance: dormant in winter + + + + Soil conditions: loam, clay, tolerates poor drainage + + + + Light conditions: partial shade to full sun + + + + Plant spacing: 1/2 to 2 pounds of pure live seed per 1,000 square feet, or 3 feet apart for garden accents + + + + Wildlife value: dense growth makes it good wildlife habitat, and large seeds attract various birds; important source of food for ground feeding songbirds and game, also a butterfly larval food plant.

Preferred habitat: prairies + + + + Foliage / winter appearance: dormant in winter + + + + Soil conditions: loam, clay, well drained + + + + Light conditions: partial shade to full sun + + + + Plant spacing: 1 / 2to 2 pounds of pure live seed per 1,000 square feet, or 1 1/2 feet apart for garden accent + + + + Wildlife value: butterfly larval feed plant, wood nymphs and swarthy skippers eat it.

10 to 20 pounds of actual fertilizer per 1000 square feet.

For an average lawn, he recommends applying a high - nitrogen lawn fertilizer at a rate of one to 1.5 pounds of nitrogen per 1,000 square feet.

While preparing the soil, add five pounds of a pelletized lime per 100 square feet in sandy soil, or 10 pounds in a clay - based soil.