Sentence examples for instead of asphalt from inspiring English sources

There is also an array of broader overhauls — a new entrance, brick streets instead of asphalt — that aim to make the park more intimate and emotion-tugging, said Robert W. Weis, executive vice president of Walt Disney Imagineering.

Rather than paying a roofer to put asphalt shingles on a new home, and then paying solar installers to climb back up and mount solar panels to the roof, the roofers could install solar shingles instead of asphalt ones.

Using the tiles instead of asphalt and concrete, they claim, could make many carbon-fuelled sources of electricity obsolete.The idea seems to be clicking with a lot of small investors: the Brusaws will soon have raised $2m on Indiegogo, a crowdsourcing site a record for such projects and twice their initial fund-raising goal.

But much more must be done, said Mr. Campbell, whose agency is trying to get developers to change their approach to some projects -- to create parking lots with permeable material instead of asphalt, for example, allowing rain to percolate into the soil.

If the world's 100 largest cities switched to white roofs, and to cement pavement instead of asphalt, it would be like taking every car in the world off the road for 11 years.

In Hancock Park, a homeowners group wrote to LaBonge expressing "extreme frustration" with "years of runaround from you and your staff" after trying to get streets fixed with more-costly concrete instead of asphalt to suit historic neighborhood rules.

Most of the existing researches only focus on some performances of the bio-asphalt binders instead of the asphalt mixtures, and the relationship between the performance of bio-asphalt binder and the performance of the mixture has been rarely reported.

The barricade failed, officials said, because they built part of it on earth instead of on asphalt in an effort to ring in a pocket of four homes.

Instead of adding asphalt, the Parks Department should work to prevent erosion through natural landscaping, including well-positioned grass berms and vegetation.

The most substantial impact reduction in asphalt can be realized through application of warm-mix asphalt (WMA) instead of hot-mix asphalt (HMA).

Instead of laying out asphalt parking lots, Law wanted sidewalks and trees that would cool and shade pedestrian outdoor space.