Sentence examples for equivalent to building from inspiring English sources

Salen's theory goes like this: building a game — even the kind of simple game a sixth grader might build — is equivalent to building a miniworld, a dynamic system governed by a set of rules, complete with challenges, obstacles and goals.

Independent schools generate £4.7bn in tax and save the taxpayer a further £4bn, equivalent to building 460 schools, by educating children out of the state school sector.

"To me, building in White Plains is equivalent to building at 42nd Street and Madison Avenue in New York City," he said.

For the GCC states alone, this would be equivalent to building two new, 1500 MWe nuclear power plants each year starting in 2016.

This project is huge by any standards: equivalent to building 8 channel tunnels in the next ten years and requires the same kind of link between government, industry and academia to make it work.

So far, NRC has approved over 8,000 MW of uprates, equivalent to building eight new nuclear power plants.

As the ceilings are more than twice as high as a normal building's, the 173m (570ft) 27-storey tower will be equivalent to a building 60-storeys high.

In the second configuration the floor was floating on top of ribs of elastomer damping material, equivalent to normal building practice when this material is used.

We assumed that the masonry embankment wall was a structure equivalent to a building of the same height.

And because the ground floor and the subbasement are each 40 feet high, he added, "this building is equivalent to a 40-story building".

Founded in Seattle in 1889 and known as WaMu, the group is the nation's biggest savings and loans company - the US equivalent to a British building society.