Sentences with phrase «prefabricated concrete»

Rietveld had planned to build the entire home using prefabricated concrete, but that turned out to be too costly.

Zhukova and the architect Rem Koolhaas have unveiled plans to bring back to life a 1960s prefabricated concrete building that would normally be pulled down.

Not exact matches

It was prefabricated from concrete, delivered to the site, and assembled «almost like Legos,» says Palmisano.

«Edison's «Single - Pour System»: Inventing Seamless Architecture» illustrated how Thomas Edison invented and patented in 1917 an innovative construction system to mass produce prefabricated and seamless concrete houses.

Schmitz, an Iowa State graduate student of civil, construction and environmental engineering, and Sri Sritharan, Iowa State's Wilson Engineering Professor and leader of the's College of Engineering's Wind Energy Initiative, were trying to answer some basic questions about using concrete panels and columns to build wind turbine towers using prefabricated, easily transportable components.

This project will evaluate connections between prefabricated bridge elements through ultra-high performance concrete.

Minimalist artist preferred industrial materials, prefabricated and / or mass - produced, concrete, wood and stone are also returning materials.

However, this Amazon tiny house option avoids most of that work by being a prefabricated option that ships fully - finished, and although it still requires either concrete footers or a slab to sit on, it's ready for the sewer, water, and electricity connections («plug and play») once that's complete.

Numerous case studies will be presented to demonstrate how innovative building enclosures have been integrated into various projects ranging from mid-rise wood frame buildings and prefabricated Passive House buildings, to towering wood, concrete and steel structures.

Cross Laminated Timber (CLT)-- prefabricated panels of wood whose strength, dimensional stability, rigidity, and large spans make it a replacement for structural steel or concrete — is currently far from a go - to building material in the U.S.. However, in what is likely an indicator of explosive growth, new product offerings for North America are arising almost as quickly as new projects are constructed with the material.

«In a SCIP (structural concrete insulated panel) building all the walls, floors and roofs are made of prefabricated foam panels with robotically welded mesh on each side and a 3 - D truss system welded through the center foam panel.