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  2. Loading dock - Wikipedia

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    A loading dock leveler is a piece of equipment which is typically mounted to the exterior dock face or recessed into a pit at a loading dock. Commonly referred to as “bridging the gap”, a dock leveler allows for the movement of industrial vehicles (e.g. forklifts, pallet jacks ) between a building and a transport vehicle .

  3. Mobile Home Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974

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    "Profiles in Safety and Health: Work Hazards of Mobile Homes" (PDF). Monthly Labor Review. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Olsen, John G. (May 1997). "Productivity Trends in the Mobile Homes Industry" (PDF). Monthly Labor Review. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. "40 Years Ago: Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act Passed".

  4. Dock plate - Wikipedia

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    Dock levelers (and indeed dock plates and dock boards) are used where a building has a truck-level door, i.e. a door with a floor level roughly at the same height as the floor of the truck's trailer. Some buildings only have drive-in doors, i.e. doors at the same level as the ground outside of the building, suitable for driving directly into ...

  5. Building code - Wikipedia

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    Model building codes have no legal status unless adopted or adapted by an authority having jurisdiction. The developers of model codes urge public authorities to reference model codes in their laws, ordinances, regulations, and administrative orders. When referenced in any of these legal instruments, a particular model code becomes law.

  6. List of dry docks - Wikipedia

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    Yard Country City Dock name L (m) B (m) D (m) Newbuild Repair Floating dock Roofed ref Alabama Shipyard: United States of America: Mobile, Alabama

  7. United States building energy codes - Wikipedia

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    Depiction of New York World Building fire in New York City in 1882. Building codes in the United States are a collection of regulations and laws adopted by state and local jurisdictions that set “minimum requirements for how structural systems, plumbing, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (), natural gas systems and other aspects of residential and commercial buildings should be ...

  8. Intermodal container - Wikipedia

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    While they appear similar to the ISO-standard containers, there are several significant differences: they are considered High-Cubes based on their 9 ft 6 in (2.90 m) ISO-standard height, their 102-inch (2.6 m) width matches the maximum width of road vehicles in the region but is 6 inches (15 cm) wider than ISO-standard containers, [95] and they ...

  9. Eurocodes - Wikipedia

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    The Eurocodes therefore replace the existing national building codes published by national standard bodies (e.g. BS 5950), although many countries had a period of co-existence. [3] Additionally, each country is expected to issue a National Annex to the Eurocodes which will need referencing for a particular country (e.g.