Sentence examples for historic construction from inspiring English sources
The trend for designing homes using natural local materials is a reaction to spiralling housing costs, according to the people who train "have-a-go" builders in historic construction techniques.
These stories are diverting enough as generalized biographical and creative portraits, but they say little about the historic construction of stardom and not enough about the machine's coldblooded operational reality.
They represent one of the main turning points in the development of the transport system and serve to gain a better understanding of the historic construction of many landscapes and their current arrangement and operation.
The construction of these spaces revolves around the perspectival and historic construction of a single image of the city; conversely, that image is fragmented into multiple versions of an imagined past and a reconstructed future.
This paper examines the interaction of successive historic construction phases in the church and monastery of Santa Maria Nova Santa Francesca Romanaa) in Rome, built between the 8th and 20th centuries above the platform of the Roman temple of Venus and Rome, and their effect on the overall stability and conservation of the buildings.
Lime is also used as stabilizer to consolidate earth in historic construction of city wall, roofing and earthen architecture.
The treatment techniques available nowadays are quite diverse but all of them have low applicability to historic constructions.
Intervene in historic constructions increasingly requires extensive and objective knowledge of what one will be working with.
The findings highlight comparably high wall U-values of 1.0 to 1.5 W/m²K for both current and historic constructions.
Bearing this in mind, a new technique to treat rising damp in historic constructions has been developed and patented in Portugal.
The final goal of this study is the development of a replacement render system called "ventilated render" ("emboço ventilado" in Portuguese) for historic constructions with renders damaged due to the presence of high moisture content and soluble salts.
