Two walls of concrete blocks are constructed at least 20 inches apart.

The central area of the ground floor of a heavily constructed apartment building, with concrete floors, should provide more fallout protection than the ordinary basement of a family dwelling.

The basement of such an apartment building may provide as much natural protection as the specially constructed concrete block shelter recommended for the basement of a family dwelling.

A modern building: Boston City Hall ( completed 1968 ) is constructed largely of concrete, both precast and poured in place.

Concrete buildings are more resistant to fire than those constructed using wood or steel frames, since concrete does not burn.

Modern columns are constructed out of steel, poured or precast concrete, or brick.

* In 2008 a concrete sleeper plant was constructed in Dire Dawa.

In this sense, Euclidean geometry is more concrete than many modern axiomatic systems such as set theory, which often assert the existence of objects without saying how to construct them, or even assert the existence of objects that cannot be constructed within the theory.

Noteworthy technical achievements of Mountbatten and his staff include the construction of an underwater oil pipeline from the English coast to Normandy, an artificial harbour constructed of concrete caissons and sunken ships, and the development of amphibious tank-landing ships.

The Rock was a key part of the Allied supply lines to Malta and North Africa and base of the British Navy Force H, and prior to the war the racecourse on the isthmus was converted into an airbase and a concrete runway constructed ( 1938 ).

Footings are normally constructed from reinforced concrete cast directly onto the soil, and are typically embedded into the ground to penetrate through the zone of frost movement and / or to obtain additional bearing capacity.

The crowded 6: 09 a. m. Sydney-bound commuter train from Mount Victoria, in the Blue Mountains, was approaching Granville railway station when it left the rails at approximately 8: 10 a. m. and hit a row of supports of the overhead Bold Street bridge, constructed from steel and concrete.

The power of the explosion was such that the deep concrete walls ( replicating how archives suggest the walls of the old House of Lords were constructed ) were reduced to rubble.

The double curvature concrete arch dam was constructed between 1955 and 1959 by Impresit of Italy at a cost of $ 135, 000, 000 for the first stage with only the Kariba South power cavern.

The Maginot Line (, ), named after the French Minister of War André Maginot, was a line of concrete fortifications, tank obstacles, artillery casemates, machine gun posts, and other defenses, which France constructed along its borders with Germany and Italy, in light of its experience in World War I, and in the run-up to World War II.

Like their US counterparts, motels were initially constructed in Canada alongside the growth of the original two-lane provincial highways, of which the first to be paved was the concrete Toronto-Hamilton Highway in 1917.

Houses are made in many different architectural styles which may be of European, American and International architecture and which vary in size, although the main difference with the US and Canada is that houses are mainly constructed with bricks and concrete instead of wood ; thus houses tend to last much longer, approximately 50 years.

A space of spinors can be constructed explicitly with concrete and abstract constructions.

The type of police box that the TARDIS resembled was constructed of concrete.

The fields were constructed out of reinforced concrete using a slip-form machine that produces a continual slab with no disruptions along the length.

Partition walls may be constructed with bricks or blocks from clay, terra-cotta or concrete, reinforced, or hollow.

Plain or reinforced partition walls may also be constructed from concrete, including pre-cast concrete blocks.

A factory is the location or a concrete class in the code at which objects are constructed.

Some experimental fixed-installation subwoofer horns have been constructed using brick and concrete to produce a very long horn that allows a very deep sub-bass extension.

It was originally constructed to facilitate Toronto ’ s City Council, legal and municipal offices and the city's courts however following the construction of the fourth city hall ( adjacent to the third, on Queen Street ) the building's purpose was limited to being solely a courthouse for the Ontario Court of Justice.

Coraopolis ' first municipal building was built in 1897 on State Avenue and was used until 1929, when the current building was constructed.

The town was originally constructed as a military air base during the Second World War, and its airport currently serves as the municipal airport for Dothan, Alabama.

The Town Council passed a resolution to place casings under Interstate 94 and Indiana Route 149, which were being constructed, to provide future municipal utilities.

A concrete block municipal building was constructed in 1934, followed by the construction of a brick schoolhouse in 1935.

In 1959, a new municipal building was constructed to house the town's administrative offices and police department.

* Fraser Field, municipal baseball stadium constructed in the 1940s under the Works Progress Administration.

Several important municipal buildings were constructed including the courthouse built in 1796 and the county prison ( now a museum ) built circa 1819.

New municipal buildings were constructed during the 20th century including the town hall on Washington Street ( 1930 ) and the U. S. Post Office building located across the street ( 1935 ).

In the early 1950s, a one-room office building with garage was constructed for a municipal building.

Burke was incorporated as a city in 1966, and a municipal water system was constructed.

The city planned for its growth and has recently constructed a new town hall, municipal service center, and recreation and aquatic center, has expanded the police and municipal court facility and has completed a major expansion to the City Library.

Since taking office, under his administration, El Cenizo has worked closely with local, state and federal agencies to pave all the streets, build the city's first fire station, the first municipal park and has constructed more than 150, 000 linear feet of sidewalks.

On October 16, 1928, District Judge Charles Klapproth declared the incorporation election void, and the city government was reorganized. In December 1928 the first municipal building, a jail, was constructed.

Because of this new growth, a new municipal building was constructed.

In 1967 the town government moved into a newly constructed municipal building on Springbrook Road and 39th Avenue that provided office, an auditorium, Fire Department apparatus room, and sleeping quarters.

The former municipal palace was constructed in the middle of the 16th century as a place for the representatives of the four Tlaxcala dominions to meet.

Sifton tried to accommodate many of their demands: his government constructed agricultural colleges, incorporated a farmer-run grain elevator cooperative, and implemented a municipal system of hail insurance.

Rama's Return to Identity project rid the city of many illegally constructed buildings on municipal lands such as local parks and the banks of the Lana.

As part of a trend of municipal sanitation programs in the late 19th and 20th centuries, many cities constructed extensive sewer systems to help control outbreaks of disease such as typhoid and cholera.

A new town was laid out on a grid pattern and several public buildings were constructed including a new municipal office, a church ( which was later converted to a mosque ,) and a large hotel.

Since the 1990s, the Shanghai municipal government has taken the initiative to preserve historical Western architectures that were constructed during Shanghai's colonial past.

A big plaza was further constructed in front of the municipal building.

In the early years this was called, rather pretentiously, Well Hall Garden City, but it compares well with later groups of municipal housing in south London-which is surprising given the fact that it was constructed rapidly between February and December 1915 and its sub-division by the South Circular Road and, until about 1988, by the even busier A2 Trunk Road.