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(pl.) aboiteaux A sluice or conduit built beneath a coastal dike, with a hinged gate or a one-way valve that closes during high tide, preventing salt water from flowing into the sluice and flooding the land behind the dike, but remains open during low tide, allowing fresh water precipitation and irrigation runoff to drain from the land into the sea; or a method of land reclamation which relies ...
A slab of pykrete Pykrete is made of 14% sawdust and 86% water by mass.. Pykrete (/ ˈ p aɪ k r iː t /, PIE-creet) [1] is a frozen ice composite, [2] originally made of approximately 14% sawdust or some other form of wood pulp (such as paper) and 86% ice by weight (6 to 1 by weight).
Because ECCs can be constructed over a range of sizes, it is important to select an appropriate size according to the need to avoid over-building and spending more money than is needed. Evaporative cooling chambers (ECCs) can be made from locally available materials, including bricks, sand, wood, dry grass, gunny/burlap sacks, and twine. The ...
The latest officially released version of MasterFormat is the 2018 Edition, which uses the following Divisions: PROCUREMENT AND CONTRACTING REQUIREMENTS GROUP:
The construction documents, specifically the technical specifications, require the contractor to submit product data, samples, and shop drawings to the architect and engineer for approval. This is one of the first steps that is taken by the contractor after execution of the construction contract and issuance of the "Notice to Proceed".
Dairy cattle grazing in Germany. In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to free range (roam around) and consume wild vegetations in order to convert the otherwise indigestible (by human gut) cellulose within grass and other forages into meat, milk, wool and other animal products, often on land that is unsuitable for arable farming.
a game result in which no player/team wins (also tie) to suck smoke from a cigarette etc. a ditch that draws water off an area of land a shallow valley or gully. (n.) dresser (furniture) a type of cupboard or sideboard esp. for kitchen utensils * a chest of drawers, usu. with a looking glass (UK: dressing-table) drop (of liquid)
In agriculture, holistic management (from ὅλος holos, a Greek word meaning "all, whole, entire, total") is an approach to managing resources that was originally developed by Allan Savory [1] for grazing management. [2] [better source needed] Holistic management has been likened to "a permaculture approach to rangeland management". [3]