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  2. City block - Wikipedia

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    A city block, residential block, urban block, or simply block is a central element of urban planning and urban design. In a city with a grid system, the block is the smallest group of buildings that is surrounded by streets. City blocks are the space for buildings within the street pattern of a city, and form the basic unit of a city's urban ...

  3. Concrete block - Wikipedia

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    A pallet of "8-inch" concrete blocks An interior wall of painted concrete blocks Concrete masonry blocks A building constructed with concrete masonry blocks. A concrete block, also known as a cinder block in North American English, breeze block in British English, concrete masonry unit (CMU), or by various other terms, is a standard-size rectangular block used in building construction.

  4. List of unusual units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    An Olympic-size swimming pool holds over 2 acre-feet of water For larger volumes of liquid, one measure commonly used in the media in many countries is the Olympic-size swimming pool. [47] A 50 m × 25 m (164 ft × 82 ft) Olympic swimming pool, built to the FR3 minimum depth of 2 metres (6.6 ft) would hold 2,500 m 3 (660,000 US gal).

  5. Federal Highway System of Nigeria - Wikipedia

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    The Federal Highway System of Nigeria also known as Trunk A national roads connects economic and political centers within the country, in addition it links Nigeria with its neighboring countries.These roads are constructed and maintained by the Federal Government of Nigeria through the Federal Ministry of Works and the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency.

  6. Brick - Wikipedia

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    The standard brick sizes in Mesopotamia followed a general rule: the width of the dried or burned brick would be twice its thickness, and its length would be double its width. [ 8 ] The South Asian inhabitants of Mehrgarh also constructed air-dried mudbrick structures between 7000 and 3300 BC [ 9 ] and later the ancient Indus Valley cities of ...

  7. Autoclaved aerated concrete - Wikipedia

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    [59] [60] Masonry drill bits and standard expandable wall plugs are not suitable for use with AAC blocks. [60] Using European standard density (400 kg/m 3, B2,5), AAC blocks alone would require very thick — 500mm or thicker — walls to achieve the insulation levels required by newer building codes in Northern Europe. [57]

  8. Gypsum block - Wikipedia

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    the medium gross density of 850 kg/m 3 to 1.100 kg/m 3 (white coloured blocks, suitable for standard usage) the high gross density blocks of 1.100 kg/m 3 to 1.500 kg/m 3 (reddish colour, suitable for walls with higher acoustic performance requirements) The dimensions of these blocks are: length 500 mm, height 500 mm. Four blocks thus make 1 m 2.

  9. Geofoam - Wikipedia

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    The blocks vary in size but are often 2 m × 0.75 m × 0.75 m (6.6 ft × 2.5 ft × 2.5 ft). The primary function of geofoam is to provide a lightweight void fill below a highway, bridge approach, embankment or parking lot.