| See Record Drawings.
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| See Record Drawings.
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| American Society of Civil Engineers.
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| A region that is relatively free of earthquakes.
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| A metal access door in the floor of a fireplace firebox to dump the ashes into the ash pit below.
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| The compartment below a fireplace in which ashes may be dumped from the firebox and stored for later removal.
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| An ornamental or protective facing of masonry composed of squared stones.
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| A pattern of masonry consisting of squared stones.
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| American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc.
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| A synthetic nonflammable insulating liquid which, when decomposed by the electric arc, evolves only nonflammable gaseous mixtures.
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| American Society of Landscape Architects.
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| American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
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| Standard specifications issued by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for the construction of boilers.
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| American Society of Plumbing Engineers.
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| Ratio of length to width of a rectangular air grille or duct.
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| A fluxed or unfluxed asphalt specially prepared as to quality and consistency for direct use in the manufacture of asphalt pavements.
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| An extruded berm made from asphaltic concrete.
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| Asphalt plus thinner; asphalt solution; asphalt coating formed by dissolving asphalt.
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| The application of asphalt to act as a water-resisting treatment to the surface of a concrete or masonry wall.
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| The destruction of roadways constructed of asphalt using large wheeled machinery that tears up the old asphalt into manageable pieces for easy removal.
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| Asphalt dispersion; not a solution; a water emulsion of asphalt.
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| Felt or fiberboard premolded and impregnated with asphalt and used as an expansion joint for cast-in-place concrete.
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| A course asphalt aggregate mixture of variable thickness used to eliminate irregularities in the contour of an existing surface prior to a superimposed treatment or construction.
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| A mixture of asphaltic material, mineral aggregates, and fine mineral aggregates that can be poured when heated but needs mechanical manipulation to apply when cool.
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| A layer of asphalt used on a flat roof.
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| An asphalt-saturated felt or an asphalt-coated felt.
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| A low viscosity liquid asphalt applied to prepare an untreated surface to penetrate into the voids, harden the top and help bind it to the overlying asphalt surface.
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| The act or process of patching worn road surfaces or leaking roofs.
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| Porous rock such as sandstone or limestone that has become impregnated with natural asphalt through geologic process; also called Rock Asphalt.
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