Concrete

We dam the North Sea.

It's a shame that concrete doesn't burn.

You know, the Romans had really perfected concrete.

Thousands of people could be killed if the dam fails.

There is a dam just north of the town.

This represents the building of underwater dams within the Gulf Stream.

It is constructed of steel and concrete.

It is the third longest river in the state.

We can shape the Earth by nuclear energy without mixing concrete, without having trucks and human beings

When the dam breaks, it will break a tidal wave of opportunity.

The makeshift dam built by Kyrgyz villages in Kara Bura district.

The Wieringermeer was closed off from the Zuiderzee in July 1929.

So The hut was made of corrugated metal, set on a concrete pad.

Boards were used to make a form into which the concrete was packed.

Reichert must shoot through a wall of concrete to reach them.

When the bullet hits the Raufoss concrete, makes a small entry hole

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel and the elements of the soil.

So The hut was made of corrugated metal, set on a concrete pad.

Among the suspended projects was the first dam across the Nu Salween.

Construction was started in 1961 and completed in 1975 at a cost of .

Another dam on the Tigris river at Ilisu threatens to flood the entire town of Hasankeyf, destroying hundreds of archeological sites and displacing 25,000 people.

If it isn't a tunnel in Colorado it'll be a bridge in Alaska or a dam across the Pacific.

Work on the foundation excavations was completed in June 1933.

In LA, it's pretty much concrete and deserts, and really high gas prices. So not really much mowing is going on there.

After the completion of the bridges and dams, the dams were locked in September 1963.

Modern tests of the quality of the concrete show that it would pass current standards.

With concrete you get sort of elasticity and you can mold space.

Lagan Weir One of the earliest and most important undertakings of the Corporation was the Lagan Weir.

The remaining three are in the Indre including the Eguzon dam which was opened in 1926 and was, at the time, the largest dam in Europe.

By September, the polished floor had cracked and raised, leaving holes in the hard concrete.

The concrete mold was installed at a height of 2.5 metres, then the armature was inserted and the concrete was poured.

However, concrete and steel are gaining ground in single family residential construction.

Ancient Romans had really perfected concrete and really were the first to use it as this structural material.

With concrete it makes it possible for not specialized workers to produce something that's more sturdy. At the same time it's less expensive. You know.

Water was drawn from the nearby Stormberg river, and later also from the Jubilee Dam.

The undersea pipeline is made of steel embedded in concrete, in order to protect it from ships' anchors.

Concrete was poured for the foundation throughout the summer of 2002, and structural work began in October.

Finally, the use of hazardous substances in construction has been common in some parts of EECCA. Phenol formaldehyde was added to concrete in medium rise buildings in Russia during the 1970s and 1980s to add strength and to prevent fire and noise.

Moscow municipality set the goal to pull down all apartment blocks where phenol formaldehyde was added to concrete.

New infrastructure requires significant quantities of mineral resources, including concrete, aggregates, and steel.

It broke down it took oxygen out of the air it put CO2 into the air and it went into the concrete.

Pound for pound, stronger than steal, in terms of tensile strength, stronger than concrete in many ways.

Now, you can reduce the embodied energy by about 25 percent by using high fly ash concrete.

I go, Great. And so they drive me down, they get me out on the tarmac, and there was this red, white and blue airplane.