Sentences with phrase «reinforced concrete»

Our most popular how - to guide walks you through the entire process of making a flexible rubber mold and using it to shape fiber reinforced concrete into a fantastic side table.

Here's an example of the reinforced concrete Donna mentioned.

Peau de Béton is a lightweight fiber - reinforced concrete panel which perfectly reproduces a refined industrial look.

In 1993, the six - year - old reinforced concrete building, weighing an estimated 3,500 tons, was moved a distance of 180 metres across a major road to make way for the new Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.

The property includes reinforced concrete floors, tilt - wall construction, 30 - ft.

Well - built, solid stone foundation with both reinforced concrete and wood supports.

That building uses reinforced concrete for its walls and CLT for its floor panels, Barbosa says.

Instead he settled on reinforced concrete for the foundation and balconies only and used bricks for the rest of the home.

Stephen has extensive and diverse experience in the construction industry reinforced concrete structural work civil works u...

Dynamic, high energy and knowledgeable Global Civil Engineering professional, currently holding a B.S. in Civil Engineering, and well trained in all structural and stress design and analysis, materials testing, reinforced concrete design, timber / masonry design with strong knowledge in AutoCAD Civil 3D.

Dynamic, high energy and knowledgeable Global Civil Engineering professional, currently holding a B.S. in Civil Engineering, and well trained in all structural and stress design and analysis, materials testing, reinforced concrete design, timber / masonry design, with strong knowledge of Civil Engineering oversight for multimillion - dollar projects.

Highlights of Relevant Experience: Demonstrated expertise in underground construction including deep trench excavation, steel sheeting, piles driving, reinforced concrete footings, deep sewer manholes, drainage structures and storm pipes.

Breaking into a bank doesn't require drilling through 20 inches of reinforced concrete.

For this reason, the materials used in the Caribbean (typically reinforced concrete) are less vulnerable to water damage than the wood framing that dominates the residential and light commercial projects in the United States.

The Respondent was the contractor for an eight - story reinforced concrete structure being built as a major addition to the Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria, B.C..

(clockwise from top left) The ground floor features 400 mm Kore EPS insulation under 100 mm reinforced concrete slab; a Siga Majpell vapour control and airtight layer protects the building against excessive moisture penetration; the 45 mm service cavity fulfilled with mineral wool insulation; airtight detailing to prevent the joist ends causing avoidable infiltration; Ampatop Protecta plus membrane fitted to the roof; the timber frame structure coming together

«The vaulting gives the house plenty of structural strength but obviates the need for embodied - energy intensive materials such as reinforced concrete.

«In the U.S. alone, approximately 33 million board feet of mostly virgin wood, 60,000 tons of steel, 1.6 million tons of reinforced concrete, and 5 million gallons of toxic embalming fluid are put in to the ground every year.»

As Shibata explains, this «Switch» design came about as a way to get around the inflexibility if the building's existing, box - like reinforced concrete structure, where walls are structural elements and therefore can not be taken down.

Glass reinforced concrete.

There are hot tubs all over the place, and the small skatebowl, dug out of the hillside and made out of reinforced concrete, is simply amazing (though this certainly increases the carbon footprint of the project by quite a lot!).

Also, my understanding is that it was not the levees themselves that failed, but rather flood walls (essentially large reinforced concrete fences set in the middle of levees).

Next the Baseler Zeitung brings up the disposal of the massive 3000 - tonne reinforced concrete turbine base, which according to German law must be removed.

Ground floor: 350 mm Geocell foamed glass insulation on ground, laid and wrapped on Terram 700 geotextile, radon barrier, 225 mm reinforced concrete with a power float finish.

After: 150 mm blinded hardcore; DPM; 200 mm Kingspan / Ecotherm insulation; second DPM to contain slab; 100 mm reinforced concrete to finish — ground down to expose aggregate — with 75 mm perimeter PIR insulation to upstands.

Basement walls: 250 mm Dow Floormate 300 - A rigid external insulation outside 250 mm reinforced concrete retaining wall.

The backup to the backups is full containment in an underground, reinforced concrete bunker.

The home can also be built on a reinforced concrete foundation, if so desired.

All the shatterproof balcony glass is set in 1/4 inch thick heavy aluminum frames stainless steel (salt corrosion) double bolted every 18 inches into reinforced concrete 2inches thicker than before.

Ground floor: Ground bearing slab of 150 mm thick reinforced concrete on 1200 gaugepolythene Radon membrane, on 200 mm Celotex GA4000 (Lambda value of 0.022 W / mK), on sand blinded and compacted hardcore.

It was noticed in a California earthquake some years ago that unreinforced brick warehouses survived while reinforced concrete (an earthquake - resistant material) elevated freeways fell, and small apartment houses built on steel columns over open parking areas often dropped to the ground.

When steel became common and affordable it took over the tall building world, along with poured reinforced concrete.

The floor is a hybrid of glulam (glued laminated) beams and reinforced concrete.

This is particularly true when a steel - reinforced concrete dome meets Federal Emergency Management Agency standards for a tornado shelter.

One reason thousands of rural communities peppering the slopes and valleys outside the Katmandu metropolis were particularly hard hit is that they lack access even to wood for construction timbers in the deforested highlands — let alone reinforced concrete.

In Southern Europe the problem is far worse, as the buildings made from reinforced concrete are far heavier and far less elastic than the wooden ones in California.

It's expensive to tear into walls and introduce steel reinforced concrete columns next to openings.

or the billions that have been spent fixing reinforced concrete buildings and the failures of flat slab and shear wall or column and slab buildings.

Nowhere was the mysterious affinity more in evidence than on the gallery's second floor rotunda, where a super-refined Donald Judd wall piece, Untitled (Bernstein 78 - 70), 1978, was hung above a rough Andre floor work, 32 - Part Reciprocal Invention (1971), composed of lengths of steel rods used to make reinforced concrete.

«All too often, the most amazing feats of human engineering are kept hidden and disguised under shiny facades or reinforced concrete.»

Using a sophisticated casting process with glass - reinforced concrete, the artist depicts the scene of the fallen statue at life size, but unlike the fragments of an actual ruin, Gander's work is one single, massive form.

His focus in recent years has centered primarily around sculptural works in fiber - reinforced concrete, painted with natural self - made pigments from locally - found, crushed bricks and stones.

This skin is made of 2,500 rhomboidal panels made in fiberglass reinforced concrete supported by a 650 - ton steel substructure.

At Martos Gallery: Davina Semo, «THEIR NOSTRILS SNIFF THE ORGY BEHIND THE WALL OF FLAME AND STEEL,» 2011, spray paint on safety glass, reinforced concrete, 36 x 36 ″

Sayre created the «Earthcastings» works by digging molds into the earth with his hands, then filling the molds with reinforced concrete to create castings.

Warner, Eastman, and landscape architect Alling S. DeForest (1875 — 1957) created an urban estate complete with working farmland, formal gardens, greenhouses, stables, barns, pastures, and the 35,000 - square - foot, fifty - room residence made of reinforced concrete.

How does reinforced concrete help us think, materially, about temporality today?

To celebrate the building's new life (one of the first buildings made of reinforced concrete in the city which was built in 1938 — at the corner between Piazza San Babila and Corso Venezia — by the architect Giacomo De Min), on the occasion of Milan Design Week 2018, Studio Job have designed a Pop Art inspired love letter for Milan on the stunning Rationalist facade of the Garage.

Davina Semo EVEN THE LITTLE HE NEEDED SEEMED NOT EASILY PROVIDABLE 2013 spray paint transfer on reinforced concrete, debris 36 x 36 x 2 inches (91.4 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm) ARG # SDA2013 - 002

Stainless steel reinforced concrete with glass mosaic tile, dimensions variable.