Sentences with phrase «slab of concrete in»

For instance, if your dog prefers to eliminate on concrete and you want her to go on grass instead, place a temporary slab of concrete in the area where you want to teach her to go.

Not exact matches

In their place are an array of bulky, angular light - gray slabs of what might be concrete.

A duration is not a stretch of time spanned by a perception but a virtual compresence of successive events in a «concrete slab of nature,» in which all events are simultaneous, and successive simultaneities overlap.

I drove with Joe to see Hawk on a cold, wet Saturday afternoon and was shocked by what I saw: a beautiful brindled beast exiled to a concrete - slab kennel, living in and slipping in and falling in a scabrous landscape of his own feces.

At Pioneer Park, the concrete slab with «GRILL» stenciled in blue and white letters is set up near picnic tables on the Fernandez Avenue side of the park, near the pools.

The concrete walls, columns, footings, slab on grade, slabs on metal deck, and podium deck utilize 30 percent fly ash, which contributes to the LEED credits in the category of Recycled Content.

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In central Belfast heaps of brick line the street, slabs of concrete rise from the ground, and gaping pits belch clouds of dust.

WWF may refer to: World Wide Fund for Nature, a nature conservation organization previously named World Wildlife Fund (and still using the former name in some markets) World Wrestling Federation, the name used from 1979 to 2002 by the professional wrestling company now known as WWE Welded wire fabric, a reinforcing material typically used in poured concrete slabs Working Women's Forum, an organisation in India World Water Forum, an international forum for water issues Windows Workflow Foundation, Microsoft's workflow management framework Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway, a former 2 foot gauge railroad in Maine, United States WWF (file format), a campaign to produce PDF electronic documents that forbid printing Words with Friends, a game for Apple and Android platforms Waterside Workers» Federation, a former Australian trade union, now the Maritime Union of Australia

To make the pieces in Situations, Specifics, Attenuation, Otitigbe took photographs in Wave Hill's Conservatory, and then used a software algorithm to convert areas of light and dark into a cutting pattern for a computer - controlled router, which engraved the surface of concrete slabs.

I also organized a lottery that made it possible for a visitor to the Whitney Biennial in New York to travel to Los Angeles to visit the concrete slab of an abandoned freeway project in Los Angeles.

and the date it was painted — two years after the Cuban revolutionary was killed in Bolivia, where the photograph of his corpse on a concrete slab in the laundry room was made to available to the press — suggest that the painting is both a memorial and an attempt (signaled by the exclamation point) to resurrect him or, at least, his spirit.

In several of the works on display, the hardened concrete slab is brutally beaten, broken in order to create a new forIn several of the works on display, the hardened concrete slab is brutally beaten, broken in order to create a new forin order to create a new form.

For his 2015 Sunroom Project, Situations, Specifics, Attenuation, Otitigbe Eto used photographs he took of plants in Wave Hill's Marco Polo Stufano Conservatory, converting light and dark into a pattern that he engraved digitally on concrete and aluminum slabs, using a computer - controlled router.

The «Béton Brut» Paris tour starts with a concrete slab of Cité des 4000, leads through the round towers of Les Choux de Créteil, cité Curial — the largest estate in Paris, leading onto the Orgues de Flandre high - rise towers, and concludes with a classic example of post-war Brutalism, the Centre National de la Danse.

Art Miami LLC is proud to announce the completion of a concrete slab that will house Art Miami — the city's longest - running contemporary art fair and its sister fair CONTEXT Art Miami, at their new waterfront location at One Herald Plaza in Downtown Miami.

Utilising food products to build earthy textures on stealth slabs of concrete and steel, unconventional beautiful can be found in these abstract landscape paintings.

Individual films are manipulated by the pressure of Dickenson's body weight in various forms against the concrete slab in her studio.

The objects in the image seem preternaturally still, pushed off to the left side of the frame: a liquefied elastic globule seems to pull down or just barely rest at the very corner of a marble slab, above it there is a chunk of what looks like concrete with rebar sticking erratically out of it that in turn appears to be floating upwards.

Visitors are given the feeling of choice and movement in the opportunity to move the concrete balls that comprise the analogue series, but they are still contained within the oppressive omnipotence of the large concrete slabs (and are also moved back to a specific space by gallery staff after: interaction, within limits).

Untitled Slab Works 1, circa 1978 - 1980; black and white photograph of cast concrete sculptures with acrylic paint in artist studio; 8.5 x 11 in.

Last summer we hosted Guillaume Leblon, a French artist who pulled large slabs of concrete and earth from around the Poor Farm property, installing them in the main gallery.

The large works that have occupied him since 1969 are, in brief: Hubris, commissioned for the University of Hawaii at Manoa, one of Smith's most open and regular pieces to date, which consists of a two - section, 9 - by - 9 grid in black concrete, one half thin slabs at ground level, the other half the same grid raised to 3 feet 3 inches by a four - sided pyramidal module; Batcave, a complex environmental interior designed to «mold space and light» rather than material form, at the Osaka World's Fair, a new version of which will be shown soon at the Los Angeles County Museum; a gigantic triangular sculpture inserted into a Californian mountainside; a labyrinthine water garden for a delta; Smog, a huge new horizontal piece made from the dismantled components of Smoke (which was made for the Corcoran's «Scale as Content» show, 1967); Haole Center, a sunken square «pavement» within a square stone sculpture, with a metal ladder leading down below the earth's surface; two related monumental sculptures on platforms (Arch and Dial); and a flat 81 - block grid proposed for downtown Minneapolis.

The general reaction was incredulity that we'd driven through traffic jams for two hours in order to see a show consisting of three slabs of concrete and a tyre.

As one study notes, «Unfortunately, earthquake experience has proved that this form of construction is vulnerable to failure in which the thin concrete slab fractures around the supporting columns and drops downward, leading potentially to a complete progressive collapse of a building as one floor cascades down onto the floors below.»

In my house, built in 1901, it would be prohibitively expensive to dramatically improving the R - value of the existing concrete slab, exterior walls, or rooIn my house, built in 1901, it would be prohibitively expensive to dramatically improving the R - value of the existing concrete slab, exterior walls, or rooin 1901, it would be prohibitively expensive to dramatically improving the R - value of the existing concrete slab, exterior walls, or roof.

This project — a retrofit of an existing building with a limited - capacity mild concrete slab — attempts to overcome the odds to provide a productive farm in the heart of the city.

Your traditional house starts with a concrete slab, possibly a well and septic, land clearing, building permits, multiple inspections, the price of the land itself (which is not included in the sqft cost of the building).

Concrete upper floors are typically hollowcore; precast slabs are craned into place on top of blockwork, but because Whiriskey wanted an open plan layout downstairs, that approach would have involved large amounts of structural steel in the slabs, which in turn would have had a major impact on cost.

We chose to insulate around the circumference of the stem wall, in the framed part of the house, rather than under the concrete slab.

I created a heat loss model of the house and calculated the heat loss with no insulation and with various levels of insulation in the wall, ceiling and concrete slab floor perimeter.

Key features include: - Optimized building envelope design provides rain screen, high R - value, and air sealing - High efficiency Daikin Altherma electric heat pump to provide 100 % of heating and cooling - ERV (Energy Recovery Ventilator) provides fresh air and exhausts interior stale air 24/7 - LED lights throughout the home - Energy Star rated appliances - American made high efficiency windows (U-value = 1.9)- Standing seam metal roof with high recycled content, durability, and longevity - Radiant concrete floor slab in basement - Dual flush toilets throughout - Cabinetry with no added urea formaldehyde and low VOC content - Countertops made from recycled Quartz and glass - Zero VOC paints used on all interior walls and ceilings - Zero VOC clear finish on wood floors - Marmoleum flooring (a linseed oil based product) in mud room and bathrooms

First of all, it was built on a concrete slab with radiant heat built right in.

First, in a home with a tight envelope and a very small heating load, even a small amount of heat can cause overheating, and the thermal mass in a radiant floor system (especially with concrete - slab systems) increases the risk of overheating.

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Many contractors advise laying concrete in large, square slabs to reduce the frequency of cracking, but it's the go - to for appearance and value.

The building is in Arizona, and consists of concrete slab / cinder block construction with a comp shingle roof.

In warm climates, a raised slab of poured concrete can be formed into a single unit that combines the footing with the actual foundation elements.

In July, the builder gave a party on a concrete slab at its under - construction tower at 520 Park Ave., inviting brokers in hard hats to sample the view from the 29th floor of the skeletal building, where prices start at $ 16.2 millioIn July, the builder gave a party on a concrete slab at its under - construction tower at 520 Park Ave., inviting brokers in hard hats to sample the view from the 29th floor of the skeletal building, where prices start at $ 16.2 millioin hard hats to sample the view from the 29th floor of the skeletal building, where prices start at $ 16.2 million.

According to Andrew M. Dennis at Donan Solutions, a 3rd generation engineering firm that began in 1947 in Madisonville, Ky., the design and construction of either a concrete slab or conventional crawlspace foundation should be tailored to the geography and climatic conditions that it is expected to perform under.

But here in Texas most of our homes are on concrete slabs, without basements.

The problem of excessive moisture in a basement slab or concrete slab may be devastating to an engineered wood flooring installation.

There are plenty of ready - to - use products available at local garden centres or home improvement stores, but if you've opted for more of a DIY option, such as laying concrete slabs or hammering in logs, it might take a little more effort — or teamwork!

A patio can be a hot slab of concrete baking in the sun — or it can be a welcoming extension of the house, calling you outdoors to enjoy cool breezes and fresh air.