Behlen makes steel buildings and livestock pens used mostly in the agricultural sector.
Only concrete and steel buildings appeared to have withstood the wash.
Among the efforts, Chinese officials ordered new buildings to use concrete reinforced with steel, while older buildings were to be retrofitted with reinforced concrete and masonry bricks.
The result was the modernist style, and postwar buildings of steel and glass.
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But nuclear power plants, research labs and the like, they have filing cabinets, chairs, the office buildings have steel beams in them.
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He also drew on the achievements of the first Chicago School the magnificent early steel-frame office buildings designed by the likes of William Jenney, Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan.
Within the steel sector, one company that traders should keep an eye on is Nucor, a producer of about 25 million tons of steel annually, including hot- and cold-rolled steel, steel joists and metal buildings.
He also saw the functional and commercial vernacular of Liverpool as a source for a more familiar and time-tested kind of design, and he began to use local materials, like red brick, to modify the structural glass and steel of the university buildings at Cambridge and Leicester done in the late '50s and early '60s, without sacrificing the radical rethinking of program and space that modernism encouraged.
Along the main drag of Bolshaya Cherkizovskaya, the trees had lost their leaves, revealing sparse playgrounds with wooden seesaws and painted steel climbing bars between the buildings.
Light is part of the very subject matter of Foster's buildings, along with steel, glass and stone.
It moulds the old listed buildings with a new steel latticed dome spectacularly.
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Steel frames and elevators had made tall buildings achievable and urbanization made them necessary.
There will be factories for cement and steel beams for new apartment and office buildings, for furniture and solar power panels.
The towers were "built as a pipe, " with the steel frame of its exterior facade supporting the buildings, he told CNN.
His ambitious plans for a new computer lab for MIT, the world's leading electronics research university, combine both elements to create a complex of crazy buildings clad in traditional brick with steel-clad classrooms and meeting rooms.
Going from Osaki through Gotanda to Shinagawa, the buildings become bigger and taller, more glass and steel than concrete.
The city is completely powered by renewable energy sources such as solar, and the buildings are being constructed with recycled materials, including steel and aluminium.
And the design work is fascinating, as you watch sheets of silvered poster-board get cut and shaped into models of what will ultimately be crafted in steel, then watch Pollock meld the models with the real buildings.
Andrew Carnegie, the Pittsburgh steel mogul, gave both the city and the university their library buildings!
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Long carbon steel refers to tubular steel and steel rods, which are used almost completely for the construction of buildings and bridges.
Relatively inexpensive to manufacture, steel and glass components were also comparatively simple to assemble because the buildings were designed to "express" their materials.
Ampco Pittsburgh ( AP) is a rarity in the steel industry because it makes the mill rolls used by major steel manufacturers as well as air conditioning and heating equipment used by commercial buildings.
Mr Antoniw highlighted the dangers for people working at power stations, steel works and factories, and the risk of exposure in some public sector buildings, including schools.
The steel, which Cintec have previously used to improve the bomb-resistance of major landmark buildings around the world, is designed to expand and contract with the pyramid, under the extreme temperatures of the desert.
It had to be preserved, and Foster's scheme for so doing entailed sweeping away the clutter of now obsolete bookstack buildings from around it and covering the court with a light glass-and-steel roof, creating Europe's largest enclosed space, which will function as the access core of the museum.
Liddell thinks that 15 stories is possible before having to use other materials like steel but says that building codes are one of the main reasons we haven't seen more tall wooden buildings, "and more recently the economic downturn, " he adds.
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