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  2. Central Embarcadero Piers Historic District - Wikipedia

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    The Central Embarcadero Piers Historic District is a Registered Historic District in the city of San Francisco, California, United States. It consists of Piers 1, 1½, 3 and 5, which form one of the largest [citation needed] surviving pier complexes along San Francisco's Embarcadero waterfront road. [1] It was added to the National Register of ...

  3. San Francisco Ferry Building - Wikipedia

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    [20] [21] These services used a new pier constructed north of the Ferry Building at Pier 1 ⁄ 2 (adjacent to Pier 1). The modern Gate B and Gate E opened in October 2001 as part of the larger renovation of the Ferry Building. [22] Construction of Gate G in November 2018. The 2001–2003 renovation anticipated a future phase to add additional ...

  4. Screw piles - Wikipedia

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    Screw piles, sometimes referred to as screw-piles, screw piers, screw anchors, screw foundations, ground screws, helical piles, helical piers, or helical anchors are a steel screw-in piling and ground anchoring system used for building deep foundations. Screw piles are typically manufactured from high-strength steel [1] using varying sizes of ...

  5. Embarcadero (San Francisco) - Wikipedia

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    The Embarcadero (Spanish for "Embarkment") is the eastern waterfront of Port of San Francisco and a major roadway in San Francisco, California. It was constructed on reclaimed land along a three mile long [2] engineered seawall, from which piers extend into the bay. It derives its name from the Spanish verb embarcar, meaning "to embark ...

  6. 16 Divisions - Wikipedia

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    The 16 Divisions of construction, as defined by the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI)'s MasterFormat, is the most widely used standard for organizing specifications and other written information for commercial and institutional building projects in the U.S. and Canada. In 2004, MasterFormat was updated and expanded to 50 Divisions. [1]

  7. US military pauses construction of pier off Gaza due to bad ...

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    The US military has had to pause construction of the humanitarian pier and causeway it is building off the coast of Gaza because of “forecasted high winds and high sea swells,” according to US ...

  8. Pile driver - Wikipedia

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    Pile driver. A pile driver is a heavy-duty tool used to drive piles into soil to build piers, bridges, cofferdams, and other "pole" supported structures, and patterns of pilings as part of permanent deep foundations for buildings or other structures. Pilings may be made of wood, solid steel, or tubular steel (often later filled with concrete ...

  9. US military starts pier construction off Gaza - AOL

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    WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. troops have begun construction of a maritime pier off the coast of Gaza that aims to speed the flow of humanitarian aid into the enclave when it becomes operational in ...