(a) Structural engineering building materials building technology

L. Building materials and technology

CO2 as a building block.

Building materials A range of energy efficient, low waste and cleaner technologies are now available for the production of building materials including cement, bricks, blocks and roofing tiles.

And then the skin starts transforming into other materials.

So they're simple building blocks.

Construction materials, especially cement, are homogeneous products.

Quality standards for construction products shall also be defined.

Trust Fund for Haiti to Finance the Cost of Construction Materials

The major portion of the consumption growth is attributable to construction applications construction materials are estimated to account for over half of total steel demand.

(a) Use of the building Materials sampled by environmental monitoring can corroborate the use of the materials within the building and (potentially) the deposition of material from any new or undeclared operations

They think of somebody choosing fabrics.

This equipment is also used to load building materials and rubble.

Siam Cement, a construction materials company, has invested abroad in petrochemicals and construction materials.

More generally, construction materials and construction services seem to be fertile ground for cartel operators.

The material is lead copper, like in the building in Boston.

A detailed discussion on resource management issues associated with the production of building materials for construction is already given in the report of the Executive Director on building materials for housing (HS C 14 7), submitted to the Commission at its fourteenth session.

Several metals such as lead, zinc and copper, with limited known reserves, are extensively used as building materials in construction.

I went into the metal because it was a way of building a building that was a sculpture.

So, architects are never happy with just one block of an interesting material.

Import duties on building materials have been removed, as well as stamp duty on some land transfers.

The rate of construction has declined as a result of the rising price of land and building materials and the out migration of labour.

And we wanted to use the water not only as a context, but as a primary building material.

Most developing countries are planning to place new emphasis on local building materials.

Steps to provide land, cement, bricks and other building material at low cost

It is planned to create a special housing fund and build a research centre that will specialize in promoting local building materials and will offer training in construction techniques.

The most important manufactured products are rum, rice, tourist items, books and construction materials (mostly aggregates).

And an image which may be closest talks about the use of light as a medium, that light becomes literally a building material.

Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.

34. There are literally thousands of stone quarries on the West Bank, supplying 80 per cent of the material needs of Israel s construction sector.

Directive on disposal of construction materials (Council Directive 91 689 EEC (OJ L 377, 31.12.1991, p.20))

Constraints also exist in land management, building materials, legislation and institutional capacity.

Products include building materials, jewellery, printing and furniture, as well as chemical processing.

While gathering his bits of twine and twig

The vast supplies of raw materials and other resources in the country have not been exploited to maximum advantage by the local building industry and a large variety of items are imported for use in construction.

In the construction industry, the problems of inconsistency of standards, lack of production systems and absence of mass production technologies tend to distort the market for building materials.

Kevin Surace suggests we rethink basic construction materials such as the familiar wallboard to reduce the huge carbon footprint generated by the manufacturing and construction of our buildings. He introduces EcoRock, a clean, recyclable and energy efficient drywall created by his team at Serious Materials.

Typical rod products are reinforcing rods for concrete, engineering products, gears, tools and a range of products used in building construction.

This could be used to build 180,000 rural dwellings a year or more than 30,000 prefabricated dwellings, benefiting 120,000 people.

rehabilitation (involving partial repair to the structure's central core and a new roof, using both new materials and materials from nearby ruins) to

Non governmental organizations and community based organizations are being encouraged to develop and utilize alternative building materials using local inputs and to meet local shelter specifications.

The main framework material of coral reefs is calcium carbonate.

There is a shortage of good building wood.

In Chile, this means in particular those workers who have been exposed to fibres from the manufacture of construction materials.

Similarly, to cultivate bio fuels on land that would otherwise be used to produce sustainable construction materials would drive up the prices of these materials and encourage their substitution by non sustainable materials like concrete and steel. This may be unobjectionable on ethical and social policy grounds, but it certainly would not help the environment.