Sentence examples for the weight of construction from inspiring English sources

While cautioning states on Wednesday about the weight of construction equipment and materials, the federal transportation department did not immediately issue any broader warnings about gusset plates.

The mature trees and plants in the easement weren't bulldozed, though many of them died anyway, killed by the weight of construction equipment lumbering across their roots.

Mr. Messerly said the experts concluded that the chord buckled because of heat stress, the weight of construction materials and frozen roller bearings that kept the bridge from expanding as it should have to handle the heat.

In a report on the collapse last fall, federal investigators blamed poorly designed connector plates that held together the span's steel beams, but they also cited the weight of construction materials on the bridge as a factor.

But neither the safety board nor the federal Department of Transportation on Wednesday singled out any particular design of bridge in raising its new concerns about gusset plates and the weight of construction equipment.

Federal authorities said one added stress on the gusset plates may have been the weight of construction equipment and nearly 100 tons of gravel on the bridge, where maintenance work was proceeding when the collapse occurred.

The experimental results showed an improvement of thermal comfort and reduction of energy consumption of the building containing PCM without substantial increase in the weight of the construction materials.

Electricity blackouts regularly strike the city, as its infrastructure creaks under the weight of Olympic construction.

The main difference is shown by the weight of the construction cost attribute.

With regards to the production model, we observe that the larger the weight of the construction sector, the higher (although the effect is not significant) the probability to abandon further education for men, but the opposite for women8.

Regarding the sectoral distribution, since the beginning of the 2000s, the weight of industry, construction and commerce has decreased to the benefit of services to industry and to households.