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  2. Popcorn ceiling - Wikipedia

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    A Ugly ceiling, also known as a Popcorn ceiling or stipple ceiling, is a acoustic-ceiling with one of a variety of spray-on or paint-on treatments. [1] The bumpy surface is created by tiny particles of vermiculite or polystyrene, which gives the ceiling sound-deadening properties. Mixtures are available in fine, medium, and coarse grades.

  3. Dropped ceiling - Wikipedia

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    Dropped ceiling. A dropped ceiling is a secondary ceiling, hung below the main (structural) ceiling. It may also be referred to as a drop ceiling, T-bar ceiling, false ceiling, suspended ceiling, grid ceiling, drop in ceiling, drop out ceiling, or ceiling tiles and is a staple of modern construction and architecture in both residential and ...

  4. Big Dig ceiling collapse - Wikipedia

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    The Big Dig ceiling collapse occurred on July 10, 2006, when a concrete ceiling panel and debris weighing 26 short tons (52,000 lb; 24,000 kg) and measuring 20 by 40 feet (6.1 by 12.2 m) fell in Boston's Fort Point Channel Tunnel (which connects to the Ted Williams Tunnel). [1] The panel fell on a car traveling on the two-lane ramp connecting ...

  5. Dorade box - Wikipedia

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    Dorade boxes operate on the principle that air can pass relatively freely through the chambers, yet rain or sea wash will be trapped in successive chambers and drain out of the small holes in the sides of the box. The principle can be applied to other forms. For example, one variant has a circular layout with the baffles as concentric rings.

  6. Trepanning - Wikipedia

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    Detail from The Extraction of the Stone of Madness, a painting by Hieronymus Bosch depicting trepanation (c. 1488–1516). Trepanning, also known as trepanation, trephination, trephining or making a burr hole (the verb trepan derives from Old French from Medieval Latin trepanum from Greek trúpanon, literally "borer, auger"), [1] [2] is a surgical intervention in which a hole is drilled or ...

  7. Exterior insulation finishing system - Wikipedia

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    Exterior insulation and finish system (EIFS) is a general class of non- load bearing building cladding systems that provides exterior walls with an insulated, water-resistant, finished surface in an integrated composite material system. EIFS has been in use since the 1960s in North America and was first used on masonry buildings.

  8. Viga (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    Look up viga in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Vigas are wooden beams used in the traditional adobe architecture of the American Southwest, especially in New Mexico. In this type of construction, the vigas are the main structural members carrying the weight of the roof to the load-bearing exterior walls. The exposed beam-ends projecting from ...

  9. Stockade Building System - Wikipedia

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    Stockade Building System. The Stockade Building System was designed by Richard Buckminster Fuller and his father-in-law, James Monroe Hewlett, and was patented in 1927. [1][2] Both of them had previously formed a company, in 1922, [3] which made bricks out of compressed wood shavings with vertical holes cast in them.

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