Sentence examples for stone constructions from inspiring English sources

Tom Reeves,Baltimore Before the rebuilding of Haiti takes shape, planners and decision makers must be sure not to use precious reconstruction funds from the international community to build conventional concrete and stone constructions, which were death traps for so many Haitian people.

The stone walls, dams, warehouses, farmhouses, paving, etc., are remarkable stone constructions and functional creations.

Finally, stone constructions as terraces, gutters, benches and walls protect agricultural lands and increase the soil moisture making them productive.

The 9th of July of 1998 earthquake was the last seismic event in the islands, leaving many traditional stone constructions severely damaged or totally destroyed.

Rock engineering and stone constructions are always suffering recurrent thermal shock (TS) generated by sudden changes in temperature, and rock mechanical behaviors in projects usually involve responses to stress pulses or impact loads due to the widely existed blasting operation, mechanized construction and seismic oscillation.

It can be assumed that the solid rocks of stone constructions have a lower conductivity than the environment (Scollar, 1962; Tabbagh, 1986).

No records tell us how much Brougham cost to construct, but there are records for other stone construction.

These were founded in the late 19th or early 20th century in the industrial cities of Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham, Sheffield, and Bristol and were constructed of red brick, as contrasted with the stone construction of the buildings of Oxford and Cambridge.

Stone is plentiful throughout Scotland and was a common building material, employed in both mortared and dry stone construction.

The use of domes and vaults in stone construction was also lost.

Beginning in the 9th century, there were the first stirrings of the revival of stone construction in Europe.