Sentence examples for abandoned timber from inspiring English sources

Later, abandoned timber concessions begin to appear: a landing stage, a few rusting cranes, and a dirt track leading into a jungle stripped of its most valuable species and overgrown with bamboo.

First composite is Glued laminated timber (GLT) with steel stud and the second is a combination of laminated veneer lumber (LVL) with steel stud as two new compositions which not only have significantly less global warming potential (GWP) than prefabricated concrete structure or steel framing system, but can be replaced rather than abandoned timber structure.

An abandoned timber mill tower seemed a fitting place to watch the sunset.

Barratt, which was once Britain's largest housebuilder, abandoned timber-framed construction after suffering some bad press in the early 1980s that led to sales halving.

Dwellings in the outlying suburbs had been abandoned; the timber from them was used to strengthen the earth ramparts and the stone gates of the city.

The timber on the abandoned tractor came from a protected forest, one of the last elephant corridors in Southeast Asia, and home to all of Cambodia's endangered species.

The spatial pattern of land cover within the Deleg catchment also changed considerably: highly degraded agricultural land in the low-lying areas was abandoned and partially afforested for timber and wood production, whereas secondary upland forest was increasingly cleared for expansion of cropland and pastures.

The mammoth, once-opulent buildings of marble and timber were initially abandoned in the 1940s during the first Indochina war and then again in the 1970s when the Khmer Rouge took them over.

The quality of the ore also varied, and it was not always profitable to smelt, as several furnaces built near iron ore mines in the Marcellus were abandoned before the ore and timber resources used to fuel them became scarce.

In large, old abandoned buildings constructed with heavy timber, it is not uncommon for a fire to be burning for several hours before someone notices and reports it, Stewart said.

In the balloon frame system, traditional heavy timbers and complex joinery were abandoned.