It covers 36,000 cubic yards of concrete to build slabs, decks, walls and the enclosures of the waterfalls and pools that will mark the site of the twin towers, and 9,000 cubic yards of concrete for adjacent underground areas.
From the first fight over a short-term spending agreement to keep the government open in early 2011 to the later tangle over the debt ceiling to the failure of last year's special budget committee and the resulting automatic spending cuts that now loom along with tax increases, the so-called fiscal cliff was built, slab by partisan slab, to where it now threatens the nation's finances.
Thin-walled cold-formed profiled steel decks used to build the slab specimens are made of structural quality steel sheets conforming to ASTM A653 ([2008]) and IS 1079 ([1994]).
"People in this neighborhood were told it was safe to build on slabs behind what were inferior levees because someone didn't want to spend a few dollars more.
The Dowses initially occupied a dugout on their claim; in 1874, they built a slab house, using material brought from Loup City.
A Brazilian mining company, Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, and the German steel maker ThyssenKrupp Stahl signed an agreement to build a steel slab plant in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Rio Doce said.
The tanks and troughs will be enclosed by a insulated steel building built on a concrete slab.
But no finished basements -- the houses were built on slabs.
Many houses are built on slabs that firmly rest on pilings.
(The two main show courts and three other courts are built on slabs of concrete, topped with a thick layer of sand).
The garden, formerly a concrete yard, is dominated by a reflecting pool built from slabs of bluestone and surrounded by river rocks and shade plants.
