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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Brick walls"”.
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Converting mill buildings into housing : ways of working with brick walls
… to residential use. It examines mills of brick bearing-wall construction with respect to their organization and materials, and looks critically at several contemporary mill conversions. It then concentrates specifically on showing how the exterior brick wall can be transformed in order to …
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Examining Teacher Knowledge: Building Bridges to Conquer Brick Walls through Double Entry Journals
… Meanwhile, the researcher is also encountering brick walls and hidden curriculums (Jackson, 1968) of a first-time teacher in a new environment and school culture. This work is a self-study built on Bullough and Pinnegar’s (2001) self-study guidelines and especially focuses on facing past …
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Bubbles, Brick Walls and Connectivity. Families affected by parental imprisonment and their experiences of community-based support.
… ‘being in bubbles’; they also described the ‘brick walls’ they experienced which reflected their frustrations of being judged and their conflict with statutory services, members of their communities and members of their own families. A tentative model centered on ‘Personal Connectivity’ is …
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Theater: Architecture of the Horizon
… building, they will walk through six-foot thick brick walls of heavy stereotomy towards a lighter tectonic environment. As they approach the architectonic auditorium, the horizon, which they could initially only see through small openings within the massive brick walls, becomes more prominent, …
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Hotel and Conference Center for Foreign Dignitaries
… reinforced by parallel load bearing masonry walls. These brick walls buffer the interior from the exterior and demarcate the program. Punched voids provide natural light. Each element including entry, wall, stair, column, and fireplace is designed to comply with the collective composition. …
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Passive solar energy : modifications of existing masonry walls to improve thermal performance.
Existing brick walls usually have a high U value, one method of improvement is by insulation, but if the wall faces approximately south, it is possible that greater benefits could be obtained by improving the wall's performance as a solar collector. Three solid 225 mm walls were constructed: one …
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A Study of Rough Surface Scattering Phenomena in the LMDS Band (28 GHz)
… incident angle and distance set-ups from brick and limestone walls. We used the reflected pulse width and maximum excess delay derived from each power delay profile to analyze the rough surface scattering phenomena. We found that limestone and brick walls exhibited some diffuse scattering. …
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Energiją taupančių namų gamykla Kretingos rajone /
… for office building in first floor will be brick walls from silicate blocks, insulated from outside. Outside finishing will be puts. For second floor walls will be double, made from double logs and insulated between with 150 mm insulation. Ceiling construction will be continuous formation …
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Permanent Supportive Housing in Tampa, Florida: Facilitating Transition through Site, Program, & Design
… within the secure confines of the heavy brick walls manifests the transition that the homeless must face, but in a secure, stable, and positive environment. The result is a gestalt which is comprised of many schematic design concepts aimed at empowering the homeless individual to succeed …
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Low Carbon Architecture: New Approach Toward Sustainability in Relation to Existing Buildings
… near permanent and define its character, such as brick walls with masonry ornament, two bank vaults, Wissahickon Schist foundation wall, and ceiling trusses. This thesis explores new approaches to leverage the embodied energy of the permanent parts of the abandoned bank and transform it into a …
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Perpetuate the Revolution: Embrace the Brick Wall
… day travelers coming in and out of the District. Brick rowhouses line this valuable street, providing multi-use functions that have evolved over the past century. Unfortunately, most of these urban gems have lost their place to the City's superblock high rises. The program of this thesis serves …
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The role of aesthetics in energy-retrofit strategies: the case of solid wall houses in the UK
… However,the current rate for insulation of solid walls is lower than desired in the UK, andonly 9% of solid wall houses are insulated. To meet the 2050 net-zeroemissions target, a higher rate of insulation is required to improve the energyefficiency of old stock. Innovative and encouraging …
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Durabilidad de morteros de cemento en contacto con purines de cerdo
… or reinforced concrete, or even covered mortar brick walls. All these elements can come into contact with diverse aggressive environments such as manure, slurry, cleaning and disinfection products, feed or dairy product wastes. Optimum resistance to these environments is essential for …