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unusual facts about Building material


Operational bill

This form of document contrasts with that of bills of quantities in which such tendering and estimation is limited to the materials in the completed work.


International Forest Products

The Company also specializes in products manufactured from Douglas Fir and Hemlock used for millwork, doors, windows, treated products, Japanese house components and bridge timbers.

White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs

He also modified the focus of the series, including documentation of churches and public buildings and the recording of interiors and millwork details He also expanded the geographic scope of the project, documenting buildings in the southern states, many of which had been framed with Southern pine or Cypress.


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Bellevue Avenue Historic District

William Kissam Vanderbilt's Marble House in 1888 introduced stone as a building material, Beaux Arts as a style, and set a new standard for size.

Betchworth Castle

The castle was bought by banking dynasty co-heir Henry Thomas Hope to add to his Deepdene estate in 1834, who demolished part of it to reuse the building material elsewhere.

Milele

The panel technology involved paneling with pre-set plumbing and electricity being filled with a quick drying building material known as Moladi Chem.

Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Faversham

Much of the building material was removed by military engineers and transported by sea to France, where it was used to strengthen the fortifications of the towns in the Pale of Calais, which at the time was England's continental bridgehead.

Tabby concrete

The British tradition began later (some time close to, but earlier than, 1700, upon introduction of the techniques from Spanish Florida) than the Spanish (1580), and spread far more widely as a building material, reaching at least as far north as Staten Island, New York, where it can be found in the still-standing Abraham Manee House, erected around 1670.

Vilmos Zsolnay

Pyrogranite is a ceramic building material that he introduced and that became popular with the architects of the Hungarian art nouveau movement.