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  • Thumbnail for Portal frame
    buildings, sloping roof made of purlins and ac sheet roofing between portals is provided. For assembly halls, portals with R.C slab roof cast monolithically...
    4 KB (664 words) - 19:58, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lift slab construction
    Lift slab construction (also called the Youtz-Slick Method) is a method of constructing concrete buildings by casting the floor or roof slab on top of...
    9 KB (1,085 words) - 13:55, 4 January 2024
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    A slab hut is a kind of dwelling or shed made from slabs of split or sawn timber. It was a common form of construction used by settlers in Australia and...
    42 KB (5,549 words) - 14:25, 17 March 2023
  • Swiss Alps roofs are made from huge slabs of stone, several inches thick. The slate roof is often considered the best type of roofing. A slate roof may last...
    25 KB (3,352 words) - 21:35, 2 November 2024
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    than gable roofs. Hip roofs have no large, flat, or slab-sided ends to catch wind and are inherently much more stable than gable roofs. However, for a hurricane...
    8 KB (967 words) - 23:25, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Piccadilly line
    rectangular, with brick bases and large tiled windows, topped with a concrete slab roof. The western extensions took over certain existing District line services...
    143 KB (14,956 words) - 20:00, 1 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Artesia, New Mexico
    function as a fallout shelter. The school, completed in 1962, had a concrete slab roof which served as the school's playground. It contained a large storage...
    18 KB (1,392 words) - 12:15, 18 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Abo Elementary School
    height of the Cold War and completed in 1962, the school had a concrete slab roof which doubled as the school's playground. It contained a large storage...
    9 KB (1,006 words) - 13:48, 18 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for Novi Sad railway station canopy collapse
    advanced for its period, bold, and relatively unusual. The roof, made from concrete slabs, is corrugated for rigidity and cantilevers over the main entrance...
    38 KB (3,672 words) - 14:22, 12 November 2024
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    Tilt up (redirect from Tilt up slab)
    casting slab to a vertical position. The slabs are then most often set onto a foundation and secured with braces until the structural steel and the roof diaphragm...
    20 KB (2,282 words) - 00:07, 11 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Acton Town tube station
    of clerestory windows and the structure is capped with a flat concrete slab roof. From the ticket hall enclosed stairs descend to the platforms under integral...
    29 KB (2,839 words) - 09:52, 31 August 2024
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    liquid coating, basement waterproofing membrane (even under the concrete slab floor where polyethylene sheeting is commonly used), or an additive to the...
    15 KB (1,886 words) - 16:32, 9 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Slab Hut Farm
    hardwood slab walls and floors and a hipped roof of unlined corrugated iron. Adzed timber rafters and tie beams with few battens support this roof, and the...
    10 KB (1,410 words) - 04:49, 5 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Flat roof
    roof is a roof which is almost level in contrast to the many types of sloped roofs. The slope of a roof is properly known as its pitch and flat roofs...
    53 KB (7,513 words) - 03:46, 29 October 2024
  • (or earlier) A large house, later a museum, it is in stone with a stone slab roof. The house is mainly in two storeys, and consists of a hall range, two...
    68 KB (2,036 words) - 13:48, 19 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Sampoong Department Store collapse
    increased the weight and thickness of the slab. The store's three 15-tonne air conditioning units were installed on the roof leading to a greater structural strain...
    34 KB (3,980 words) - 04:00, 13 November 2024
  • some regions in England, the Alps, and Scandinavia. Stone slabs require a very heavyweight roof structure, but their weight makes them stormproof. An obsolete...
    16 KB (2,071 words) - 07:48, 27 September 2024
  • restored in about 1910, is in stone, with a string course, and a stone slab roof with a moulded coped gable end facing the road. There are two storeys...
    12 KB (469 words) - 20:25, 25 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
    service's downtown terminal, suffered from neglect and urban decay with the slab roof of the train shed literally falling apart, requiring its removal. By this...
    46 KB (5,662 words) - 19:41, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for St Luke Old Street
    concrete slab roof which keeps out traffic noise from the nearby road. Though this is similar in profile to the former eighteenth-century roof, its great...
    12 KB (1,299 words) - 18:43, 15 October 2023
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