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    Why Concrete Is The Ideal Material For A Septic Tank Building a home in the country is a great idea when you want room for your kids to play away from a congested city. However, being even a short distance from the city limits means you may not be able to connect to the municipal water supply or sewer system. That problem is easy to solve by installing a well, septic tank, and drainfield. One choice you'll have to make is what type of septic tank to install. Here's why concrete is often the…

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    Ingalls Building

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    The first reinforced concrete high-rise building is the Ingalls Building, built in 1903 in Cincinnati, Ohio. All the key developments in reinforced concrete buildings in that time have contributed in the design and construction of Ingalls Building. Richard W. Steiger defined the Ingalls Building, ‘These developments included heavy monolithic beam-and-slab construction with tension reinforcing, two-way reinforcing systems, and bent bars and stirrups. Also used were hoops and continuous helixes…

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    On the site visit from 7th October there were many materials that were playing an important part in the development of the roadworks, including steel, concrete/cement and many more. Below I have selected three materials from the site visit and identified properties and uses. • Steel There are over 3000 different grades of steel all with unique physical and chemical properties. The production of steel is made in accordance with its application. Due to its high strength Steel is one of the most…

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    A basement foundation is a foundation which is about a floor below the ground surface and there is space in a basement foundation that could be another room in the building to use as storage space. Typically, basement foundations are made from concrete walls. There are many advantages and disadvantages of basement foundations. An Advantage of basement foundation is that it provides air space under the house, which is useful during the summer as it naturally cools down the building using the cold…

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    Definition Of Brutalism

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    association with the word brutal. In architecture, the term “Brutalism” was actually named from the French Beton Brut, which means raw concrete. The term was first used by Le Corbusier himself to describe his own design but was formerly created by Alison…

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    The cast-in-place concrete was used to create the majority of the shallow foundation, columns (including the elevator shaft), and slabs. The prefabricated cinder blocks were used in a small portion of the foundation at the rear of the building surrounding the natural gas meters. The uses for concrete are shown in Figure 3 5 below. Reinforced concrete is a beneficial structural material because it is durable, low maintenance, and most…

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    Roman Technology

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    architectural world forever: concrete. Concrete made ancient structures like the Pantheon and Coliseum strong enough to somewhat withstand the years of wear. Roman concrete, large chunks of rock bound with a mixture of volcanic ash and water with lime, created a more environmentally friendly material than modern Portland cement (that has to be heated to 1,450℃ which in turn releases enough carbon to be responsible for 7% of global carbon emissions). This form of concrete was had less porosity of…

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    Roman Arches

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    The concept of the arch and concrete was seen as significant as the dwelling places in Rome. They were used to solidify and modify the Roman edifices. An arch is a made of stone, brick, concrete, steel with a curved shape. It supported and strengthened the Roman's buildings thereby making them strong. The last block inserted in an arch is the key stone known as the center stone. They mostly consist of wedge-shaped blocks (Cary and Scullard, 1975). When arches are made, they are supported by a…

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    believe that people in every early civilization were super intelligent because they used different materials to construct their own buildings, which allowed them to advance quickly. One example of a construction method that shows an advancement is concrete. Just like Humphrey says, “… the Romans were able to produce a whole new style of architecture based on interior spaces rather than on the Greek ideal of external beauty” (pg.60). Roman construction differs from other civilizations because…

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    This process of sealing was to cease all possibility of water touching the slurry and allowing for it to moisten. It was a necessary process. As for the steel frames that were going to be used for the building, Yamaski and the engineers agreed on bringing “kangaroo” cranes, which were cranes that would function with help of diesel motors and they were self powered. The reason for this was because since the goal for the buildings were to be the tallest building at their time back then, they…

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