Assessment calculations also discourage basement building, he said; assessors value basement square footage at half the rate of ground-level space.
One day she'd find me in my workshop in the basement, building something from strips of fragrant, fine-grained cedar.
It shows the faces and mood of the largely foreign Taliban fighters as they are led out from a basement building onto a parade ground, and answers many of the questions as to how the uprising began.
Basement building has become a highly controversial issue in London, where some underground schemes are so cavernous they have been dubbed "iceberg homes" because only a tiny fraction of the property is now visible above ground.
Hunt sparked the boom in basement-building in 2008, when he decided that he would build an underground lair that befitted his status as the true Bond villain of the Blair years.
In 1980, he comes to New York with his girlfriend, directing shows in church basements, building props, living in a five-story walk-up.
If one were less optimistic, however, one might conclude that the financial imperatives of basement-building can only encourage those who would seek to cut corners on safety, structural integrity and the minimisation of disruption.
In New York, flooding from Hurricane Irene also caused hundreds of oil spills since Sunday, mostly from overturned heating oil tanks in the basement of buildings and homes.
More specifically, Menberg et al. (2013) found that heat losses from basement of buildings are one of the dominant factors to influence subsurface thermal regime.
Boiler rooms have traditionally been located in the basements of buildings because that was where the coal was delivered.
