* Coated roofs: One way to make an existing or new roof reflective is by applying a specifically designed white roof coatings ( not simply white paint ) on the roof's surface.

The roof's double collar-beams and curved collar braces rest on masonry corbels in the walling, an early example of innovation in roofing larger buildings.

Edward Durrell Stone designed the park's most enduring feature, the roof's 96-arch " Crown of Arches ," The Crown echoed the iconic Gateway Arch, which was completed only a year before Busch Stadium officially opened.

To prevent roof tears like those that occurred in its first years of service, the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission adopted a twofold strategy: When snow accumulation was expected, hot air was pumped into the space between the roof's two layers.

The roof's steel framework was fabricated by the shipbuilders Scott Lithgow.

At the end of the 2006 season, the roof's bogie system was replaced at a cost of over $ 13 million.

When the roof's structural work was completed, sheeting was applied on the roof, which was then covered with shingles.

The sawtooth roof's lighting concept partially reduces the summer " solar furnace " skylight problem, but still allows warm interior air to rise and touch the exterior roof glass in the cold winter, with significant undesirable heat transfer.

The roof's arched profile recalls the spine of a dragon with ceramic tiles for scales, and a small triangular window towards the right of the structure simulates the eye.

Barnum added a lighthouse lamp which attracted attention up and down Broadway and flags along the roof's edge that attracted attention in daytime.

Structural, load-bearing steel is limited to the roof's trusses ( traditionally built of timber ); concrete is used significantly in the support structures for bells of the central tower, and the floors in the west towers.

Equipping roofs with highly reflective material ( such as aluminum ) increases a roof's albedo and will help reduce the amount of heat it absorbs, hence, the amount of energy needed to cool the building it is on.

Planting in containers prevents added stress to the roof's waterproofing.

Another problem that stemmed from the roof's design and the large glass panels just below it have caused, during day games when the roof is open, to have shadows that cover all of home plate and the batters boxes, but keep the pitchers mound to be in full sunlight.

On January 5, 2007, a tear occurred in the roof's ETFE fabric close to Gate G on the south side where the roof meets the top of the concrete bowl.

The tear grew quickly as air escaped through it, whereupon maintenance staff performed an intentional, controlled deflation to protect the integrity of the roof's intact fabric panels.

The rain-inflicted damage includes chipped roof's ridge.

* Improve thermal efficiency of the roof insulation ; this is because as temperature increases, the thermal conductivity of the roof's insulation also increases.

Soon after completion, problems arose with the roof's exterior.

They resist the out-thrust of a triangle that's trying to flatten under the roof's own weight or snow load.

The paint has worn off, but the grey stone was once covered with vivid colors.

TriMet's first paint scheme was this orange and white, worn by all vehicles from 1971 until 1980 and by a portion of the fleet ( the oldest buses ) until 1991.

Volunteers removed all the paint, replaced worn parts, and repainted the entire aircraft, among many other tasks.

These images would all be painted after carving, which helped to define the forms ; today the paint has worn off in the great majority of surviving examples, but minute, invisible remains of paint can usually be discovered through chemical means.

The roof at Texas Stadium, whose worn paint had become unsightly in the early 2000s, was repainted in the summer of 2006 by the City of Irving, which owned the stadium.

The dolphins Ecco met were divided into three subtypes: the Crimson, dolphins with red paint worn on their flippers ; the Circle, white dolphins who showed an eagerness to operate machinery ; and the Movers, orange and white dolphins with the build of orcas that had once apparently been the muscle of the dolphins when they had been enslaved.

Church leaders are unconvinced but remaining open-minded about the apparition, which has been explained as a combination of worn away paint and moss.

A half face particulate ( air-purifying ) mask is generally worn to protect the wearer from dust and paint fumes.

Examples include annual testing and adjustment of alarm systems, central heating or cooling systems ( electrodes, thermocouples, and fuel filters ), replacement of water treatment components or air-handling filters, purging of heating radiators and water tanks, defrosting a freezer, vacuuming refrigerator coils, refilling dry floor-drain traps with water, cleaning out rain gutters, downspouts and drains, touching up worn house paint and weather seals, and cleaning accumulated creosote out of chimney flues, which may be best left to a chimney sweep.

The paint is worn off her Kitty Hawk and her leather jacket is spotted and a button gone.

Fabric prints of clothing worn by pedestrians in the paint and / or road grime of the striking vehicle can match a specific vehicle involved in a Hit and Run collision.

He ordered the Security Service and Police Force to spray paint on legs of any woman wearing short skirts, and tearing the bell-bottom trousers worn by any male or female.

A similar paint scheme was worn by the AEM-7s which omitted the white paint above the stripes, instead the locomotives sides were left in an unpainted stainless steel.

Mixed with the creek water, clay makes body / face paint which can be worn home, but is much more commonly washed off by another swim in the lake.

He hadn't worn a watch or carried pocket money for years because he disliked both, but highest among his hates were looking glasses: he had snatched one from an officer's grasp and smashed it to smithereens.

All day long Mr. Podger, who was a straw-hat man in the summer, had worn the feather in the band of his broad-brimmed sunshield.

He was proud that he had never worn a wig.

( This made a sportswriter named Pegler wonder in print if Art had worn this armament when he defeated his manager.

One boy who rocked back and forth over his worn book had bright red hair and freckles.

He had put on the gray jacket and the dark-gray slacks and the fawn-colored shirt he had worn that first night in Rome when he had encountered her on the street.

the worn teddy bear, a tiny suitcase that Jim carried, and the clothes she wore, were all she had.

Certainly his parents, who had worn the purple, were slain by it.

The first is what Gildas meant by saying Ambrosius ' family " had worn the purple ".

Although the lion had been dropped from the jersey, the players had worn the lion motif on their ties as they arrived in South Africa, which led the press and public referring to them as " the Lions ".

Many years later, Bob Heironimus, an acquaintance of Patterson's, said that he had worn an ape costume for the making of the film.

While two-piece bathing suits had been worn on the beach before, the modern bikini was invented by French engineer Louis Réard in 1946.

" His figure was that of a robust, large-framed man, worn down by confinement and hard fare ; but he was now recovering his flesh and spirits ; and a suit of blue clothes, with a gold laced hat that had been presented to him by the gentlement of Cork, enabled him to make a very passable appearance for a rebel colonel ...

This second kind of elf cross one was worn as a pendant in a necklace and in order to have sufficient magic it had to be forged during three evenings with silver from nine different sources of inherited silver.

For the World Cup in 1986 England had a third kit of pale blue, imitating that worn in Mexico sixteen years before and England retained pale blue third kits until 1992, but they were rarely used.

Subsequent Godzilla suits worn by Satsuma were much safer and more comfortable, as they were custom-made to fit him ( even though the suits still had some dangers of their own ).

An inheritance had allowed the family to acquire a shop in which they sold china and sporting goods, although it failed to prosper: the stock was old and worn out, and the location was poor.

Their beards, however, were not worn out of an appreciation for Greek culture but because the beard had, thanks to Hadrian, become fashionable.

Conveniently their clothes had been worn away to classical-seeming rags by the point the painting depicts.

Each ibutho had a singular arrangement of headdress and other adornments, so that the Zulu army could be said to have had regimental uniforms ; latterly the ' full-dress ' was only worn on festive occasions.