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Craigslist headquarters in the Inner Sunset District of San Francisco prior to 2010. The site serves more than 20 billion [17] page views per month, putting it in 72nd place overall among websites worldwide and 11th place overall among websites in the United States (per Alexa.com on June 28, 2016), with more than 49.4 million unique monthly visitors in the United States alone (per Compete.com ...
Clapboard is always referred to as weatherboard in New Zealand, where that type of cladding dominated in buildings constructed before 1960. After the big earthquakes of 1855 and 1931, wooden buildings were perceived as being less vulnerable to damage, and weatherboard walls with a corrugated iron roof was found to be a cost-effective building ...
Cladding is an outer layer of material covering another. It may refer to the following: Cladding (boiler), the layer of insulation and outer wrapping around a boiler shell; Cladding (construction), materials applied to the exterior of buildings Wall cladding, exterior material applied to the walls of a building
Blue fiber cement siding HardiePanel on design-build addition, Ithaca NY. Fiber cement siding (also known as "fibre cement cladding" in the United Kingdom, "fibro" in Australia, and by the proprietary name "Hardie Plank" in the United States) is a building material used to cover the exterior of a building in both commercial and domestic applications.
The use of brick construction increased in Chicago after the Great Chicago fire of 1871. They are called common brick since they were used in multiwythe mass walls with many of the brick used on inner wythes while a facing brick was used for the outer wythe. Most of the brick manufacturers closed around the middle of the 20th century, and now ...
The Monadnock was commissioned by Boston real estate developers Peter and Shepherd Brooks in the building boom following the Depression of 1873–79. [5] The Brooks family, which had amassed a fortune in the shipping insurance business and had been investing in Chicago real estate since 1863, had retained Chicago property manager Owen F. Aldis to manage the construction of the seven-story ...
The use of brushed stainless steel cladding reflects the corporation that commissioned the building as its headquarters, the Inland Steel Company. [1]The placement of all structural columns on the building's perimeter—and the consolidation of elevators and other service functions in a separate tower—allowed for a highly flexible interior floor layout with no interior columns. [1]
CB&I, originally known as Chicago Bridge & Iron Co, is a global engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) firm that specializes in storage solutions for infrastructure and industrial projects. Founded in 1889 and headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas , CB&I designs, fabricates and installs storage tanks and terminals, along with a range ...