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unusual facts about building materials



Vyshhorod

There are more than 1500 enterprises and companies functioning today in Vyshhorod, most important of them being the Kiev Hydroelectric Power Plant, the Kiev Hydroelectric Pumped-Storage Power Plant (both divisions of the Ukrhydroenergo) and a building materials factory controlled by the Henkel.


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1997 Punitaqui earthquake

The extensive damage to structures was the result of an amplification effect on the ground and the poor quality of building materials, this reflects the potential for damage incurred in an intraplate earthquake with vertical fault and how it can be much greater than what which can cause one of interplate of similar magnitude, and caused severe damage in Chilean cities of La Serena, Ovalle, Illapel and Punitaqui.

A29 road

From Capel to Hardham, south of Pulborough, the road with notable deviations follows the path of one of the multiple Roman roads with the name Stane Street, the Middle English and Old English for Stone Street due to the remaining building materials.

Alcatraz Wharf

The wharf, or boat dock, was established on Alcatraz in the 1850s to permit the landing of men and building materials to construct a fort, completed in 1859.

American colonial architecture

In Alta California, present day California, the style developed differently, being too far for imported building materials and without skilled builders, into a strong simple version for building the missions between 1769 and 1823.

Anipemza

Near to village the industrial complex of building materials (processing of Pumice, Tuff, Andesite) is located.

Buscot Park

Some of the building materials were bought second-hand, following demolitions and alterations to Kempsford House, Gloucestershire, and Charlton House.

Drummond Pike

1995: Spearheads the Thoreau Center for Sustainability by rehabilitating the empty and dilapidated Letterman Hospital buildings according to a “green” architectural plan, using sustainably-harvested wood, recycled building materials, non-toxic paints and energy-efficient designs that maximize sunlight and natural ventilation.

Gold Creek Homestead

Anthony's second eldest son Edmund Rolfe spent his early working life as a teamster, transporting building materials e.g. sandstone, wool, wheat and even drinking water from and to as far afield as Camden and Braidwood.

History of Regina, Saskatchewan

The most ambitious such project, however, the Grand Trunk Railway's Chateau Qu'Appelle hotel at the corner of Albert Street and College Avenue (the site of the 1955 Museum of Natural History, now renamed the Royal Saskatchewan Museum), was abandoned, its building materials lying unused for years until they were eventually bought by the CPR and used in the construction of the Hotel Saskatchewan.

Houghton Saint Giles

The parish church of Saint Giles was rebuilt by William Eden Nestfield in 1877 and much of the building materials for the new church were re-cycled from an older church on the site.

Iioka, Chiba

Iioka was a noted port town in the Edo period, and prospered greatly in the aftermath of the Great Fire of Meireki in 1657, as a transshipment center for timber and building materials to Edo.

InnoVida

InnoVida was a manufacturer of building materials, founded by businessman Claudio Osorio.

Kenneth Hudson

In 1972 he published his book on Building Materials in the Longmans IA series, and in 1979 he co-wrote, with Julian Pettifer, Diamonds in the Sky, the result of historical research on the social history of air travel for the BBC television series of the same name.

La Moneda Palace

Works on the building started in 1784, with building materials arriving the following year from around Chile and the world: limestone from the Polpaico country estate; sand from the Maipo River; red stones from a quarry at the Cerro San Cristóbal in Santiago; white stone from the neighbouring Cerro Blanco; oak and cypress wood from Valdivia; Spanish metal works from Vizcaya.

Münchenstein rail disaster

Intensive research work by the co-founder and first director, Prof. Ludwig von Tetmajer, gave rise to the first publications on the testing and standardisation of building materials and metals.

New Taipei Municipal DanFeng High School

The building was also designed to be constructed with green building materials and reclaimed building materials, creating a new landscape of architecture in Xinzhuang area.

Paoli, Inc.

American hardwoods such as cherry, sycamore, maple, and beech have been a key resource for Paoli’s building materials.

Petite Nevis

A small isolationist community called Moonhole on nearby Bequia scavenges whale bones from the island for building materials.

Phnom Krom railway

It is impossible to speculate when the railway was constructed, but most likely it would have between around 1890 (when the French were, among other things, undertaking extensive construction in Phnom Penh which also included the use of narrow gauge railways) and perhaps as late as the 1920s, when work on the Grand Hotel D'Angkor was being undertaken (a project which would have required large quantities of building materials).

Pliny Fisk III

He helped develop building materials using abundant stocks of Kaolinite High Alumina Clay, waste sawdust and woodchips, and waste rice husks.

QuietRock

QuietRock is a brand of internally damped drywall panel by Quiet Solution (aka Serious Materials and Serious Energy), an American manufacturer of building materials started by Kevin Surace .

Railways in Ely

Cemex operates an asphalt and building materials depot at the site.

Rosalie Gascoigne

Some of her other best-known works use faded, once-bright drinks crates; thinly-sliced yellow Schweppes boxes; ragged domestic items such as torn floral lino and patchy enamelware; vernacular building materials such as galvanised tin, corrugated iron and masonite; and fibrous, rosy cable reel ends.

Stachybotrys

The most infamous species, S. chartarum (previously known as S. atra) and S. chlorohalonata are known as "black mold" or "toxic black mold" in the U.S. and are frequently associated with poor indoor air quality that arises after fungal growth on water-damaged building materials.

Stratford station

There was also a goods terminal at Bow operated by the Midland Railway which is still open today mostly for building materials.

Vincent Fayks Airport

It was named after the Polish pilot Vincent Fajks who crashed with co-pilot Ronald Kappel with their Aero Commander AC 520 (PZ-TAG) airplane at the site in October 1959, while trying to deliver building materials for the airport.

Vinyl siding

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) recommends using building materials that require "no additional finish resources to complete application on site" for green home builders as they reduce waste and materials used.