Building-material Sentence Examples

For the purposes of scientific topography observation of the natural features and outlines is followed by exact investigation of the architectural structures or remnants, a process demanding high technical competence, acute judgment and practical experience, as well as wide and accurate scholarship. The building material and the manner of its employment furnish evidence no less important than the character of the masonry, the design and the modes of ornamentation.

The products of the quarries of France for the five years 1901-1905 averaged 9,311,000 per annum in value, of which building material brought in over two-thirds.

Much of the building material is a brown sandstone obtained from quarries only 3 m.

For the architectural embellishment of the city the finest building material was procurable without difficulty and in abundance; Pentelicus forms a mass of white, transparent, blue-veined marble; another variety, somewhat similar in appearance, but generally of a bluer hue, was obtained from Hymettus.

Numerous ruins, an amphitheatre, still recognizable, a theatre, a temple of Augustus, &c., existed in the 16th century, and have been since used for building material.

The travertine which forms round the springs of the Sarno was used even at Pompeii as building material.

Assyria in this, as in other matters, the servile pupil of Babylonia, built its palaces and temples of brick, though stone was the natural building material of the country, even preserving the brick platform, so necessary in the marshy soil of Babylonia, but little needed in the north.

Trade, which is largely water-borne, is in grain and agricultural products, coal and building material.

The extensive use as building material of cream-coloured brick made in the vicinity gives the city its nickname, "the Cream City."

The situation, with its wooded hills and neighbouring islands, is no less beautiful than that of other south-coast towns, but the substitution of brick for wood as building material after a fire in 1892 made against the picturesqueness of the town.

In addition to the breweries, rum and brandy distilleries, sugar mills and tobacco factories, which are sometimes worked as adjuncts to the plantations, there are many purely urban industries, such as the manufacture of woollen and cotton goods on a large scale, and manufactures of building material and furniture; but these industries are far less important than agriculture.

Red granite is the chief building material of the houses.

Broken black lava forms the beach, and blocks of it are the universal building material.

These defects will no doubt be overcome as concrete grows in popularity as a building material and its aesthetic treatment is better understood.

Marble first appears as a building material in the temple of Fortuna Augusta (c. 3 B.C.).

This forms part of the plain of the St Lawrence, underlain by Palaeozoic limestones and shales, with some sandstone, all furnishing useful building material and working up into a good soil.

On the other side of the lake are the so-called Quarries of the Hyenas, from which the building material for the town was obtained.

Many of the residences are on bluffs commanding beautiful views of river scenery; and good building material has been obtained from the Burlington limestone quarries.

It is a roughly built pioneer town, in which wood is the principal building material.

The use of reinforced concrete as a building material received a special impetus in consequence.

The lapis Albanus is a green grey volcanic stone with black and white grains in it (hence the modern name, peperino), much used for building material.

A purely local railway has also been introduced, to assist in transporting building material.

Thus the building material made up of separate substances combined into one is known as concrete (see below).

Galilee was invaded and Baasha was forced to return; the building material which he had collected at Ramah being used by Asa to fortify Geba, and Mizpah to the immediate north of Jerusalem.

The rocky heights south and west of the town, whence the building material is largely obtained, are full of natural and artificial caverns, once used as dwellings, cloisters and graves, where are most of the ' Pictures in Burkitt, Early East.

The building material in general use is sun-dried bricks, which in the better houses is covered with plaster or stucco.

This sealed a yellowish-brown sandy clay with inclusions of charcoal and ceramic building material interpreted as a layer of overburden (C1147 ).

In the Victorian era it was partly demolished to provide building material for a garden folly in the manor grounds.

Asbestos was once heralded as the greatest building material available to those in the construction industries.

A popular building material for a wooden pergola is Western red cedar.

Not until the late 10th century were quarries reopened for the extraction of fresh, unused building material.

One established building material supplier claims, that Towcester Building Supplies is drastically undercutting it and is a real threat to its business.

The imports (see Joppa) are chiefly food, clothing and building material.

The qualities of bamboo as a building material have long been recognized in many parts of the world and items such as bamboo flooring and bamboo housewares are becoming increasingly popular.

Listed below are some of the best reasons for choosing this revolutionary building material.

If you do not live near a ReStore, there are other options to consider for your building material donation.

Calcium supplies the building material for bones and teeth.

The testimony afforded Sources by inscriptions is often of decisive importance, especially that of commemorative or votive tablets or of boundary = stones found in situ; the value of this evidence is, on the other hand, sometimes neutralized owing to the former removal of building material already used and its in corporation in later structures.