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2. Lally column - Wikipedia

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   A Lally column is a round or square thin-walled structural steel column filled with concrete, [1] and oriented vertically to provide support to beams or timbers stretching over long spans. Lally columns are an engineered component and as such must be installed exactly as the design engineer specified.

3. Hollow structural section - Wikipedia

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   When this is done, the product is referred to as a Lally column after its inventor John Lally of Waltham, Massachusetts. (The pronunciation is often corrupted to lolly column.) For example, barriers around parking areas made of HSS are often filled, to at least bumper height, with concrete. This is an inexpensive (when replacement costs are ...

4. Oldcastle Materials - Wikipedia

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   Oldcastle Materials Inc. is a supplier of asphalt, concrete, and other building materials, and also offers construction and paving services. The Atlanta-based company is a subsidiary of CRH plc, a publicly traded international group of diversified building materials businesses, [2] [3] and has approximately 18,000 employees at 1,200 locations, as of March 2018.

5. Tilt up - Wikipedia

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   A finished tilt-up building. Tilt-up, tilt-slab or tilt-wall is a type of building and a construction technique using concrete.Though it is a cost-effective technique with a shorter completion time, [1] poor performance in earthquakes has mandated significant seismic retrofit requirements in older buildings.

6. Cement board - Wikipedia

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   Cement board has very little movement under thermal stress, but the boards are usually installed with a slight gap at joints in shower pans, bathtubs, and each other. These joints are then filled with silicone sealant or the manufacturer's taping compounds before applying a finish. The filled joints are taped like conventional gypsum board, but ...

7. Teddi Mellencamp Reveals She Has ‘Multiple’ Brain Tumors ...

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   Teddi Mellencamp revealed that she has multiple brain tumors.. On Wednesday, Feb. 12, the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum, 43, posted a health update on Instagram, sharing that she is ...

8. Earthbag construction - Wikipedia

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   The technique requires very basic construction materials: sturdy sacks filled with organic material usually available on site. Standard earthbag fill material has internal stability. Either moist subsoil that contains enough clay to become cohesive when tamped, or a water-resistant angular gravel or crushed volcanic rock is used.

9. Near-Earth asteroid Bennu could hit Earth in 157 years and ...

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   Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global winter that affects our planet for years.