Sentences with phrase «traditional building methods»

Greensburg has a demonstration home made of concrete and another under way using a «wood block» system that's stronger than traditional building methods because the wood interlocks like Legos, he says.
I normally don't cover traditional building methods, but this one is a bit too cool.
Hastoe Housing, a trailblazer in the development of affordable passive housing, have completed their second scheme in the Essex village of Wimbish — 11 houses whose simple and traditional building methods and materials mask cutting - edge energy efficiency.
MekaWorld modular homes can be installed in hours as opposed to weeks or even months with traditional building methods.
It features rain chains for harvesting rainwater, skylights, wide windows for passive cooling, and traditional building methods like earth plaster for humidity control and charred wood siding (shou sugi ban or a scorched - wood technique from Japan) for better protection against the elements.
With traditional building methods, lighting control solutions and detectors must be manually hard - wired into a junction box, a relatively time and labour intensive process.
Not only can modular buildings be up to 70 % quicker to construct than traditional building methods, but they can be reused and repurposed, allowing schools to adapt learning spaces to meet unique requirements.
Costume and handling collections and activity bags will also be offered at an increasing number of sites, such as the interactive guide book and object collection at Warkworth Castle and our first traditional building methods pack at Launceston Castle.

Not exact matches

A space - faring rocket built by traditional manufacturing methods consists of about 100,000 parts.
That's especially true in the construction industry where, for commercial buildings, traditional methods could be millions of dollars cheaper.
The traditional methods for link - building to improve your search rank are getting blown up because they weren't legit.
To build a business case for content - driven inbound marketing, you need to show that it will generate a better return on investment than traditional methods.
Put differently, if using a traditional technique your shaving brush will either build the mix outside of the brush itself; if using a Method approach the brush will build the mix internally — inside the brush itself.
Lean startups practice agile development; unlike traditional long product development cycles, this method focuses on development iteratively and incrementally, eventually building towards a commercially - viable product.
Search engine marketing and social media work together in building visibility online, which is a change from the older traditional methods of link building and keyword usage.
The basic idea of straw bale building is this: Instead of constructing houses from traditional materials, an efficient and environmentally friendly method can be employed in which straw bales finished with plaster and supported with timber or rebar frames serve as the walls of the house.
The computers built by commercial firm D - Wave of Burnaby in British Columbia, Canada, have many more qubits — about 500 — but use a method known as adiabatic quantum computing, which, unlike the traditional method, has not yet been proved to give a quantum power boost.
«And if you have to build a complicated bias model using traditional methods, it takes a really long time.»
programs contain a balance of functional movement and traditional training methods to build lean muscle and overall strength.
Bodyweight Overload is simply a method of training borrowed from traditional body building and applied to calisthenics.
It tells the stories of the new wave of farmers, millers, and maltsters who are working to build a community and reinvent local grain systems by returning to traditional methods of growing and using wheat.
More specifically, the presentation will look at the impact the recent Google Penguin Update had on traditional link - building methods and explain how to develop a successful link - building strategy in line with the requirements imposed by Google's new algorithm.
Studios just don't want to feel obligated to make use of the gamepad for «multiplatform» titles built with traditional input methods in mind.
Both Sunesis and Connect offer a range of educational buildings including whole schools, classroom extensions and halls that combine traditional construction methods applied to a standardised design, resulting in fixed costs and timescales.
Even the most effective attempts to push a government - established curriculum into classroom practice will drag out over a decade, because it just takes so much time to communicate the goals and methods through the different layers of the system, and to build them into traditional methods of teacher education.
«The hope is that by blending traditional and new teaching methods they will build on each other, providing students with an innovative and effective learning experience nurturing skills students need to succeed both in life and in a tech - driven workforce,» writes Craig Kemp (@mrkempnz) in Singapore.
Simulations allow users to learn much faster than traditional methods through the use of repetition, which has been found in recent studies to strengthen neural connections and build memories.
In the free eBook Building Effective Customer Education Programs you'll have a look at the basic tenets of customer training, you'll learn 4 traditional training methods that companies use today, and you'll explore ways to supplement them with online courses to create more effective customer training programs.
It becomes immediately apparent that these competencies and habits of mind and work can not be adequately built using only traditional teaching methods — even if your school is strong by traditional measures.
Fundamentally the key issue that faces every new - build school is space, as they are now typically built by area to control cost; this method has an immediate impact on the catering facilities, particularly in those schools moving from much larger, traditional buildings.
While still attending a traditional school building, face - to - face classroom methods are combined with technology based activities.
In cities across the country, charter schools have become known for anxiety - fueled lotteries, bitter disputes over sharing buildings with traditional schools and teaching methods that are sometimes unorthodox.
· Although some methods of managing performance assessments can cost more then machine scoring of multiple choice tests (i.e. when such assessments are treated as traditional external tests and shipped out to separately paid scorers), the cost calculus changes when assessment is understood as part of teachers» work and learning — built into teaching and professional development time.
Today we are still hand - building cars at George Lister Engineering in Cambridge and use many of the traditional methods that were used in 1954, as well as one or two of the original engineers.»
The interior console was built based on a method of traditional Japanese nailless wood joining known as kanawa tsugi.
Even ignoring the hurdles and roadblocks that are a built - in part of traditional publishing's drawn - out querying process, it's easy to see which method of publishing represents the greater and faster - growing opportunity to earn a living wage as a writer.
In my role at Macmillan Publishers, I've spent the last couple of years balancing traditional publishing technology (e.g., InDesign, XML, XSLT) with modern web markup and conversion methods to build the first version of an automated ebook production toolchain that converts Microsoft Word manuscripts to EPUB files ready for distribution.
Many are not carrying credit cards — a traditional method of building credit — because their student loan debt averages about $ 35,000 and that's a hefty load already on their budding credit reports.
Whether it be a single family home, multi-family dwelling, or a light commercial building, Hi - Tech Housing will meet or exceed all traditional site - built construction methods.
When we understand what «traditional» punishment - based training methods do to our dogs and our relationships with them, we can strive to be better guardians and build relationships based on trust as we teach them with positive reinforcement.
In 2005, Timbers Resorts acquired the estate and restored all of the buildings utilizing traditional construction methods and authentic materials, and updated the property to include modern conveniences.
Villa Grasia Resort offers mod - ethnic with tradition style tall huts build using modern methods and materials to create a fresh modern abode with a strong inspiration from the traditional architecture and design.
Martin Puryear (American, b. 1941), an American sculptor known for his devotion to traditional ways of working, typically creates handmade artworks using methods gleaned from carpentry, boat building, and other trades with spare, exacting stylistic dignity.
Rejecting traditional methods of building paintings with layers of thin glazes, the Impressionists worked spontaneously to capture the fleeting effects of light using bright pigments, large brushstrokes, and thick impasto.
The head travels back and forth, building up cathodes or anodes for a microbattery more powerful than any battery that has been achieved with traditional thin film printing methods.
One of the problems with modernist architecture is that in many places in the world, it has supplanted traditional methods of building that over generations, have been specifically adapted to local climates, materials and knowledge.
By using offsite timber cassettes, the building could be wrapped considerably faster than projects using traditional construction methods of this size without a reduction in of the external envelope.
The build method chosen was traditional with a twist: block, but with an extra-wide 250 mm cavity pumped with EPS platinum bead insulation.
Often a combination of traditional and design build procurement methods will offer the best value to the client.
They were able to raise all but $ 2 million to buy a $ 6.5 million building at Bloor and Bathurst in 2010 using traditional methods such as securing a mortgage.
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