Tom Broadbent has adapted the early river waterwheel electrical generation system for use in high-rise buildings.
There are some high-rise buildings that are running their elevators and their stairwell lights on generators.
Glass broke in high-rise buildings, causing the injuries, the federal Emergency Ministry said in a statement.
Construction crews are swarming over new high-rise buildings in Seattle and big suburban areas such as Bellevue.
Some high-rise buildings in China do not have a fourth or 14th floor for that very reason.
Viewed from a height, the city seems to spread out in an endless expanse of mundane, low-rise buildings.
High-rise buildings in major cities are designed so that they sway rather than shake during earthquakes, making them safer.
Studies have also found that the high-rise buildings in cities create a barrier that can redirect regional weather patterns.
Dandong's city government has moved offices to the area, but the thickets of surrounding high-rise buildings remain unfinished and empty.
The old town of mud-brick houses linked by labyrinthine alleys is disappearing, eaten up by broad avenues lined by high-rise buildings.
Peel's Liverpool Waters plan includes building high-rise buildings housing offices, shops and up to 14, 000 apartments on an area of disused land.
It is also ideal for hopping between high-rise buildings in cities it being stable in winds due to gyroscopic forces of the spinning disc.
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The quake was felt across the Gulf in Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, where workers were evacuated from high-rise buildings as a precaution.
The number of fire engines that respond to fires in high-rise buildings has now been increased and there have been changes to equipment and tactics.
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My uncle is an engineer and he was teaching the next day in McGill and coincidentally the lecture he was giving was about high-rise buildings.
Riverpark Farm is a sprawling one-acre urban farm tucked among the high rise buildings on East 29th Street in Manhattan, just off of the East River.
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At first, they'd considered using smoke grenades to distract local law enforcement in an effort to "topple financial institution signs atop high rise buildings, " the complaint says.
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Schindler lifts, in use in hundred of high-rise buildings, use technology such as a personal identification card readers or keypads to understand the exact requirements of a user.
We seldom felt ourselves to be in such a large city, however, perhaps because of the tree-lined boulevards and the low-rise buildings of the business and government districts.
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Only thorough research could discern that residents of high-rise buildings are more likely to be victims of crime, because stacked tenants make for poor monitors of the surrounding streets.
From the 1950s onwards, the collective turned a once sleepy, small town of 6, 000 into a city with massive high-rise buildings and a population of exactly 67, 881 in 1989.
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Mea culpas also came from those who were now stranded at the top of high-rise buildings or stuck in areas with no power, hot water and dwindling food supplies.
One expert in the UAE has estimated that 70% of the high-rise buildings there have panel facade cladding made of a combustible thermoplastic core held between two sheets of aluminium.
In her letter to Mr Pickles, she has recommended the government publishes national guidance on fire safety for residents in high-rise buildings and urged local authorities to install sprinkler systems.
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Chinese kitchens are often small and in high-rise buildings -- creating a squeeze for a cooker which is between 90 and 110cm wide and weighs around the same as a baby elephant.
Currently, about 150 high-rise buildings are going up in Toronto, more than anywhere else in North America and twice the number in New York City, according to Emporis, a German data provider.
Nor do phones seem to ring much anywhere on the suburban Microsoft "campus, " a cluster of 35 low-rise buildings, lawns, white pines and courtyards that resemble those of a state polytechnic college.
In their detailed grid of streets and low-rise buildings, they show the Hudson, the harbor and even the Long Island Sound stretching far into the distance and teeming with steam and sailing craft.
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The Metal Building Material Business segment provides housing window sashes, building sashes, store facades, sashes for low-to-medium rise buildings, entranceway doors, various types of shutters, curtain walls, gates, carports, banisters, tide barriers, and smoke insulated screens.
Shortly afterward, Abu Ghaith warned in a speech that "the storms shall not stop especially the airplanes storm" and advised Muslims, children and al-Qaida allies to stay out of planes and high-rise buildings.
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