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2. Cast-in-place concrete - Wikipedia

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   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] This differs from precast concrete technology where slabs are cast elsewhere and then brought to the construction site and assembled. [ 2 ]

3. Hempcrete - Wikipedia

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   Hemp concrete has a low thermal conductivity, ranging from 0.06 to 0.6 W m −1 K −1, [24] [15] [25] a total porosity of 68–80% [24] [26] and a density of 200 kg /m 3 to 960 kg/m 3. [ 15 ] [ 27 ] Hemp concrete is also an aerated material with high water vapour permeability and its total porosity very close to open porosity allowing it to ...

4. Fiber cement siding - Wikipedia

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   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.

5. Burbank, California - Wikipedia

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   Burbank is a city in the southeastern end of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County, California, United States.Located 7 miles (11 km) northwest of downtown Los Angeles, Burbank had a population of 107,337 in 2020, decreasing by 4,582 to a Census-estimated 102,755 in 2023. [8]

6. Lehigh Valley Transit Company - Wikipedia

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   The resulting seventeen arch concrete span cost over $500,000 (equal to $15,907,407 today) and required 29,500 cubic yards (22,600 m 3) of concrete and 1,100,000 pounds (500,000 kg) of metal reinforcing rods. When opened for traffic on November 17, 1913, it was the longest and highest concrete bridge in the world.

7. Ellis Island - Wikipedia

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   It was placed atop either wood piles, cribbing, or submerged bags of concrete. In the 1920s, the second ferry basin between islands 2 and 3 was infilled to create the great lawn, forming the current south side of Ellis Island. As part of the project, a concrete and granite seawall was built to connect the tip of these landmasses. [22]