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  2. American historic carpentry - Wikipedia

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    Over 5,000 relief cottages after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake were built using single-wall construction. Box houses (boxed house, box frame, [16] box and strip, [17] piano box, single-wall, board and batten, and many other names) have minimal framing in the corners and widely spaced in the exterior walls, but like the vertical plank wall ...

  3. Wood shingle - Wikipedia

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    Historically, wooden shingles were usually thin (3 ⁄ 8 to 3 ⁄ 4 in or 10 to 19 mm), relatively narrow (3 to 8 in or 76 to 203 mm), of varying length (14 to 36 in or 360 to 910 mm), and almost always planed or knifed smooth. The traditional method for making wooden shingles before the 19th century was to rive (hand split) them from straight ...

  4. Traffic barricade - Wikipedia

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    A traffic barricade [1] is a type of barricade used to control the flow of traffic or block access to an area, generally for safety purposes. Traditionally made of wood, or wood and steel, many now have structural members made wholly of plastic or composite materials , and may be fitted with flashing lights.

  5. Hesco bastion - Wikipedia

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    It was originally designed for use on beaches and marshes for erosion and flood control. [5] They were used in 2005 to reinforce levees around New Orleans in the weeks between Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita. [6] During the June 2008 Midwest floods, 8,200 metres (9,000 yd) of HESCO barrier wall were shipped to Iowa. [7]

  6. Timber framing - Wikipedia

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    Half-timbered walls may be covered by siding materials including plaster, weatherboarding, tiles, or slate shingles. [10] The infill may be covered by other materials, including weatherboarding or tiles, [10] or left exposed. When left exposed, both the framing and infill were sometimes done in a decorative manner.

  7. Miami right to reject a 20-foot flood wall. But we still have ...

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    Miami-Dade County’s hard “No” on the federal government’s proposal to build a 20-foot-tall coastal wall to combat flooding has paid off. The feds have agreed to re-examine that part of the ...

  8. Roof shingle - Wikipedia

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    Shingles historically were called tiles, and shingle was a term applied to wood shingles, [1] as is still mostly the case outside the US. Shingles are laid in courses, usually with each shingle offset from its neighbors. The first course is the starter course and the last being a ridge course or ridge slates for a slate roof.

  9. Flood barrier - Wikipedia

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    A flood barrier, surge barrier or storm surge barrier is a specific type of floodgate, designed to prevent a storm surge or spring tide from flooding the protected area behind the barrier. A surge barrier is almost always part of a larger flood protection system consisting of floodwalls , levees (also known as dikes), and other constructions ...

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