Cubic yard

The Hoover Dam is one of the greatest megastructures in the world, for many reasons. This Dam spans the Colorado River in Black Canyon between Arizona and Nevada, about 30 miles southeast of Las Vegas Nevada. In the early 19 hundreds there were extreme flooding from the melting snow in the Rocky Mountains that had came down to the Colorado River. Because of that this is when they decided to construct a dam to control the water flow. Arthur Powell Davis, head of the U.S. Bureau of…

Commercial businesses that produce more than 8 cubic yards of waste a week will need to separate food waste and yard scraps to be picked up for composting (Biocycle, 2014). Furthermore, starting January 2017 businesses that produce more than 4 cubic yards of waste are subject to compost separation (Biocycle, 2014). Through increased awareness on how to compost and the value of compost, this number…

What you did? I was doing my internship at Douglas County Emergency Operation Center; we were a group of three students who are majoring in Emergency Management. Whitney Shipley supervised and taught us a lot of things during the semester. We had done tabletop exercise with three different agencies; each one of us had to choose to meet with the Police department, Business organization, and Red Cross. I chose the Red Cross and met with them many times. The Red Cross is doing an exercise in the…

Landscaping a yard is a very expensive exercise if you can't do it well. Keeping a garden or lawn green and growing isn't as simple as simple as many people think. It involves a lot, not just sprinkling a little water on the garden or lawn once in a while. Landscaping often involves, mulching, laying down weed covers, fertilizing, watering aerating and lawns and paying for expertise in addition to labor and supplies. Caring for your lawn can cost you up to $200 per month. You can cut down…

energy, but also because it left behind a shocking amount of debris. The storm destroyed so many homes, buildings, forests, and green spaces that an extraordinary amount of debris was left behind, 118 million cubic yards, in comparison, to Hurricane Andrew, which created 20 million cubic yards of debris (Fox News, 2006). The effects of such storms do not only effect the land and living conditions, but they can also cause an overwhelming blow to the local…

had an open plaza including buildings to protect the towers from wind. Construction began in february,1967 and had 200000 pieces of steel, 300 miles of electrical wiring, 42500 cubic yards of concrete, 40,000 doors, 43600 windows, and 6 acres of marble. A trench, 70 feet down had to be dug into bedrock. One million cubic yards of landfill were removed, port authority used this fill for a 40 million dollar worth of land for Battery Park City. Additionally, the towers had elevators that saved…

The bulk of the work will be done and you have your yard and deck to enjoy the rest of the summer. So employe all little hands get them out there to pick up Stick, rake, or help dig a hole to plant new plants. Then have them go inside and find a blanket, make your lunch and sit on the blanket outside and…

I have built a drag truck. We built a street truck when I say we it`s my dad and Kaleb and me. It is a 1985 S10 with a 350 cubic inches motor in it. It has big tires on the back small on the front the body looks like its right out of the junk yard. I did not have a really big money that I wanted to have to build it. I work fast food so I cannot really spend crazy amounts on parts. One day I was on one of my Facebook car pages and I was looking thru there and seen a 1986 S10 with a 307 in it so…

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…

environmental regulations. In 2006, Fluor successfully completed the project of environmental restoration with the approval of U.S Department of Energy. In particular, Fluor successfully treated, by soil venting, 1,000 cubic yards of contaminated soil and chemically treated 45 cubic yards of lead-contaminated soil. Moreover, “Fluor designed and operated the largest ion-exchange water treatment facility in the world for removing uranium from groundwater to…