In others, traditional Chinese joinery patterns used in wood construction were mimicked in masonry.
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He believes we can meet worldwide housing demand AND constrain carbon emissions by replacing steel and concrete construction with wood construction, that can even be applied to skyscrapers.
It all began with a gust powerful enough to blow a large slat of wood loose from a construction site and send it hurling into a storefront with a slam, spraying shattered glass everywhere.
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These companies are principally engaged in the business of producing raw materials, including paper or wood products, chemicals, construction materials, and mining and metals.
The Black Olive, which touts environmentally friendly features including solar panels, geothermal wells and recycled wood furniture, was under construction during the depths of the recession.
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Tourism is creating other problems for the local environment, too, including increased population density, over-dependence on wood as a fuel and construction source and the overgrazing and cutting of mountain slopes to feed livestock.
Thirty years ago, concrete construction started to take the place of wood.
According to the Associated Press news agency, the fire spread quickly because construction workers had recently applied a flammable wood preservative to the exterior of the building.
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The traditional construction processes require both technical skills to design the building with consideration to its size, site and function, and aesthetic sense to select the lumber for the construction materials, cut and shape the wood, and assemble and interlock the separate wooden pieces without using nails, creating the so-called joints that withstand a millennium.
Construction materials for housing typically include lumber, wood, gravel, metal, iron, and steel.
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In 1961, when construction began on the Dublin City Council headquarters at Wood Quay -- the area between the Liffey and Christ Church Cathedral in south Dublin -- an extensive Viking settlement was uncovered.
Under the deal, Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) will continue to provide engineering, procurement, construction and services to Total's Alwyn, Dunbar, Elgin and Franklin offshore platforms and the St Fergus onshore gas plant.
More than 50% of the jobs are found in construction industry, public health sector and commercial goods industries (cosmetics, luxury food, wood, rubber, plastics).
They finally started construction in 2003 and gutted the entire building and even reinstalled the landmarked stoop and rebuilt the wood-burning fireplaces.
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