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2. Formwork - Wikipedia

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   Rebar has been stubbed up out of the concrete slab to form the base of future columns Timber formwork for a concrete column. Adjustable metal screw jacks both stabilize and plumb the form Aluminum formwork system Sketch of the side view of traditional timber formwork used to form a flight of stairs Placing a wall form. A matching form will be ...

3. Insulating concrete form - Wikipedia

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   The first expanded polystyrene ICF Wall forms were developed in the late 1960s with the expiration of the original patent and the advent of modern foam plastics by BASF. [citation needed] Canadian contractor Werner Gregori filed the first patent for a foam concrete form in 1966 with a block "measuring 16 inches high by 48 inches long with a tongue-and-groove interlock, metal ties, and a waffle ...

4. Autoclaved aerated concrete - Wikipedia

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   When AAC is mixed and cast in forms, aluminum powder reacts with calcium hydroxide and water to form hydrogen. The hydrogen gas foams, doubling the volume of the raw mix and creating gas bubbles up to 3 millimetres ( 1 ⁄ 8 in) in diameter—it has been described as having bubbles inside like "a chocolate Aero bar ". [ 26 ]

5. Cast-in-place concrete - Wikipedia

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   Animation depicting construction of multi-story building using aluminum handset formwork. Steel and plywood formwork for poured in place concrete foundation. Cast-in-place concrete or Cast-in-situ concrete is a technology of construction of buildings where walls and slabs of the buildings are cast at the site in formwork. [1]

6. Formstone - Wikipedia

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   Typical Baltimore formstone-faced rowhouses Example of Formstone style masonry from Richmond District in San Francisco. Formstone is a type of stucco [1] commonly applied to brick rowhouses in many East Coast urban areas in the United States, although it is most strongly associated with Baltimore.

7. How To Hibernate: Get Off The Grid In An Earthship - AOL

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   Each brick consisted of 10 aluminum cans — four flattened and six unflattened wired together into a block. According to the Earthship Biotecture website , they were used to form a structure onto ...