A concrete block, also known as a cinder block in North American English, breeze block in British English, or concrete masonry unit (CMU), or by various...
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Rusticated concrete block is the handmade product of in-field advances in cement making. These concrete blocks first appeared in the late 19th century...
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alternative to traditional concrete blocks and clay bricks. AAC products are factory-prefabricated, in contrast to cellular concrete, which is typically mixed...
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Concrete Block House may refer to: Concrete Block House (614 N. 4th Ave., Phoenix, Arizona), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Maricopa...
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the principal cause of the damage was due to the use of defective concrete blocks. Within county Donegal this was originally termed the Mica scandal...
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A wave-dissipating concrete block is a naturally or manually interlocking concrete structure designed and employed to minimize the effects of wave action...
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Masonry (section Concrete block)
rocks such as marble, granite, and limestone, cast stone, concrete blocks, glass blocks, and adobe. Masonry is generally a highly durable form of construction...
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Pavers (flooring) (redirect from Interlocking concrete pavers)
factory, concrete pavers are made with a mixture of sand, stone, cement and iron oxide pigments in a mold and then cured prior to packaging. Block paving...
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In the early 1920s, Wright designed a "textile" concrete block system. The system of precast blocks, reinforced by an internal system of bars, enabled...
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form concrete Concrete masonry unit – Standard-sized block used in constructionPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Concrete plant –...
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An ecology block, also known as an eco-block or ecoblock, is a type of recycled concrete block used to make retaining walls. Ecology blocks are manufactured...
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Reinforced concrete, also called ferroconcrete or ferro-concrete, is a composite material in which concrete's relatively low tensile strength and ductility...
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Concrete rubble used as riprap along the San Francisco Bay shoreline Modular concrete block riprap Modular concrete block riprap Modular concrete block...
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started working on Dragged Across Concrete right after he finished development of his previous film Brawl in Cell Block 99, which also starred Vaughn, Carpenter...
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Blockhouse (redirect from Concrete blockhouse)
Originally blockhouses were often constructed as part of a large plan, to "block" access to vital points in the scheme. But from the Age of Exploration to...
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Tetrapod (structure) (category Wave-dissipating concrete blocks)
A tetrapod is a form of wave-dissipating concrete block used to prevent erosion caused by weather and longshore drift, primarily to enforce coastal structures...
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toy block for children Blocked (video game), a puzzle game for the iPhone and iPod Touch Concrete block, cinder block or cement block, a concrete masonry...
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Zeitpyramide (section Longevity of concrete)
off-by-one error of ten years. So far, the blocks have all been concrete, but the material of future blocks may be altered in future generations depending...
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heather or long grass. The earliest tests were made by simply dropping a concrete block from a tall crane (surviving film was shown in the BBC documentary series...
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of burial at sea include the mixing of the ashes with concrete and dropping the concrete block to form an artificial reef such as the Atlantis Reef. Below...
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Millard House (section Wright's textile block houses)
textile block house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1923 in Pasadena, California. It was Wright's first building using concrete blocks in a modular...
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before murdered her. They pair then disposed of her body by tying a concrete block and a sledgehammer to it and dumping it in Lough Inagh in Co Galway...
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sources state that it was the tallest concrete block structure in the world when it opened, with 90,000 concrete blocks, but the magazine Florida Architect...
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slab is the beam and block system (mentioned above) which is modified by replacing concrete blocks with expanded polystyrene blocks. This not only allows...
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on top of a hill in Los Feliz. The house is the largest of four concrete textile block houses that Wright designed in Greater Los Angeles in the 1920s...
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Cement shoes (redirect from Concrete boots)
in a New Jersey creek, weighed down with an 18-kilogram (40-pound) block of concrete. On August 24, 1964, the body of Ernest Rupolo, aged 52, a trigger...
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light-gauge steel partitions. Due to increased mass, poured concrete and concrete blocks typically achieve higher STC values (in the mid STC 40s to the...
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A breeze block is a concrete block used in construction. Breeze block may also refer to: Breeze Block (TV series), a British TV series Breezeblocks (song)...
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Dolos (redirect from Concrete jack)
A dolos (plural: dolosse: 10 ) is a wave-dissipating concrete block used in great numbers as a form of coastal management. It is a type of tetrapod. Weighing...
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90 years of being staffed. It celebrated its centenary in 2003. The concrete block tower is 27.5 metres (90 ft) high, topped by a bluestone gallery. On...
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