Sentences with phrase «slab of concrete with»

The slab of concrete with a spray - painted pink X on it, is named Listening to the Men Talk Sometimes Made Her Feel More Alone Than if She Were a Mile Away by Herself Under a Tree, delicately referring to subjective experiences of gender differences.

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DESIGN This joint venture would use tilt - slab construction consisting of concrete with reinforced fibers that the company says would make the wall more durable and resistant to damage.

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 senator, along with representatives from city agencies and the offices of other elected officials, gathered on Rutgers Street (near Madison Street) to watch as the final slabs of concrete were poured.

The superstructure of the Peace Bridge consists of riveted steel with reinforced concrete deck slabs and a latex modified concrete wearing surface.

And this spring, the final slab of concrete was laid on a new five - and - a-half-mile boardwalk, with Mayor Bill de Blasio proclaiming its completion a symbol of the area's resiliency.

Agnes Jaoui infuses the film with a distinctive visual style, peppering the film with impressionistic paintings which fade into the drab surroundings of the world of the film — the entrance to the driving school, a concrete slab of a building — neatly linking into the film's idea that romance fades into humdrum mediocrity.

The materials used for this build have been chosen to cater for the harsh climate, consisting of a simple steel frame with profiled concrete floor slabs, exposed to take best advantage of thermal mass to moderate the internal environment.

Just above idle speed, the V - 8 tattoos the concrete slabs of the old airfield with a wild and angry noise very much unlike that of a typical Bentley.

That's because those concrete slabs used to create your outdoor living space are hot and cold conductors — altering the temperature of your condo's external walls and clashing with your condo's internally regulated climate.

For a doggy toilet, use sheets of newspaper sprinkled with soil, or a litter box filled with a roll of turf, or a concrete paving slab.

We have a variety of powered and unpowered sites, with concrete slab sites, grassed sites, drive - thru sites and shady sites all available.

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

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.

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.

The works incorporate urban objects such as concrete slabs, taxi cab fragments, and garbage cans and are created using Greco - Roman techniques; this juxtaposition suggests parallels between the steady decay of contemporary cultural capitals like New York, with those now extinct, such as Rome.

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.

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.

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.

Despite my research into the topic, I'm still yet to find the perfect insulated slab that leaves the concrete exposed as a useful and comfortable thermal flywheel (with the possible exception of MAXRaft now that they have an XPS option for more rugged edge protection).

The ground floor consists of beam and block construction with 250 mm Kingspan Kooltherm K3 insulation, and a concrete slab over

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).

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

Moisture movement by air leakage (the exfiltration of interior moisture - laden air during heating periods and the infiltration of exterior moisture - laden air during cooling periods) is controlled by limiting air leakage openings, controlling the interior levels of moisture during heating periods by utilizing controlled ventilation (dilution by air change) combined with source control (direct venting of clothes dryers as well as the use of subgrade vapor retarders under concrete floor slabs and bath and kitchen exhaust systems), controlling the interior levels of moisture during cooling periods by utilizing the dehumidification capabilities of mechanical cooling systems, and limiting controlled ventilation to minimum values established by indoor air quality concerns.

• where solar panels are added then the bottom 100L of the DHW cylinder volume is taken as the solar store • 5 % compact fluorescent lighting • living area fraction 25 % • glazing: PVC 16 mm, argon filled double, soft e with U-value of 1.7 w / m2k • masonry structure, medium thermal mass • number of storeys = 2 • number of sheltered sides = 2 • concrete slab ground floor, timber upper floor • thermal bridging factor = 0.11 CASE STUDY RESULTS

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.

VERN (BUD) GRIFFIS [email protected] 223 Cedar Avenue Horsham, PA19044 [phone] Experienced Site Superintendent with OSHA certification successfully controlled budgets in excess of 47 million with no citations PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE C. Raymond Davis & Sons (10/2014 to present) • Building 10 family single homes with a community center • Homes are concrete slab on grade, stick framing with trusses...

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.

Many of my condo clients weren't happy with the drab, cold and unwelcoming concrete slabs — aka balconies — hanging off their bedrooms and living rooms.

I had agonized over what to do with this space because it was just a huge slab of concrete on the front of our house.

Enhance yours with a run of stepped concrete slabs and use a narrow rustic - style table or bench to create a central focal point.