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  2. Connect Housing Blocks bring modular construction to ... - AOL

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    Each day, two Connect blocks roll off the line, as the factory continues to ramp up production. The factory needs 147 workers to fully operate a shift, up from120 now. "We're still scaling up," he ...

  3. Ecology block - Wikipedia

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    Ecology block with rebar loop on top for use with heavy equipment. An ecology block, also known as an eco-block or ecoblock, is a type of recycled concrete block used to make retaining walls. Ecology blocks are manufactured using concrete left over from other construction processes.

  4. Concrete block - Wikipedia

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    A pallet of "8-inch" concrete blocks An interior wall of painted concrete blocks Concrete masonry blocks A building constructed with concrete masonry blocks. A concrete block, also known as a cinder block in North American English, breeze block in British English, or concrete masonry unit (CMU), or by various other terms, is a standard-size rectangular block used in building construction.

  5. Bulk box - Wikipedia

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    A bulk box, also known as a bulk bin, skid box, pallet box, bin box, gaylord, or octabin, is a pallet-size box used for storage and shipping of bulk or packaged goods. [1] Bulk boxes can be designed to hold many different types of items such as plastic pellets, watermelons, electronic components, and even liquids; some bulk boxes are stackable.

  6. Bin packing problem - Wikipedia

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    Bin-packing with fragmentation or fragmentable object bin-packing is a variant of the bin packing problem in which it is allowed to break items into parts and put each part separately on a different bin. Breaking items into parts may allow for improving the overall performance, for example, minimizing the number of total bin.

  7. Packing problems - Wikipedia

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    In a bin packing problem, people are given: A container, usually a two- or three-dimensional convex region, possibly of infinite size. Multiple containers may be given depending on the problem. A set of objects, some or all of which must be packed into one or more containers. The set may contain different objects with their sizes specified, or ...

  8. City block - Wikipedia

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    A city block, residential block, urban block, or simply block is a central element of urban planning and urban design. In a city with a grid system, the block is the smallest group of buildings that is surrounded by streets. City blocks are the space for buildings within the street pattern of a city, and form the basic unit of a city's urban ...

  9. 2001 in comics - Wikipedia

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    January 3: Jonathan (or Codename comrades), by Jane Espenson and Cliff Richards. [1]January 16: Le manuscript, by Frank Giroud and Béhée, (), first chapter of the historical-religious saga Le décalogue; the story begins in 2001, in Oxford and continues backward until Hijrah.