| A property or building that is built, installed, or established to perform a particular function, such as a factory, university, or airport.
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| Brick made especially for exterior use with special consideration of color, texture and size.
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| Box 8880, Canton, Ohio 44711, (216) 488-1211.
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| Any masonry forming an integral part of a wall used as a finished surface; compare with Veneer.
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| The ratio of ultimate strength to the working stress of a material.
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| The load imposed on a member multiplied by appropriate factors, used to design reinforced concrete members.
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| Lumber intended to be cut up for use in further manufacture.
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| see Edge, 5.
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| Flooring that has been manufactured in a factory and is ready to be installed without any further work needed on its surface.
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| see Industrial Wood Floor.
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| 1151 Boston-Providence Turnpike, Norwood, Massachusetts 02062, (617) 762-4300.
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| An agency of the insurance industry that sets standards for fire safety in buildings, of which compliance is a prerequisite for fire insurance.
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| 108 square feet (10 square meters) of roofing material.
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| A building or buildings containing plant or equipment for manufacturing of machinery or goods.
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| Device for measuring color retention or fade resistance.
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| Mechanism used to artificially reproduce effect of sunlight on paint.
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| Rction in brightness of color.
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| Forced air furnace
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| A scale for registering temperature where freezing is 32° above zero and boiling is 212°.
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| Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
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| Faience tile that are less than 6 in. by 2 in. facial area, commonly 5/16 to 3/8 in. (8 to 9.5 mm) thick, and usually pre-mounted to facilitate installation.
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| Glazed or unglazed tile, generally made by the plastic process, showing characteristic variations in the face, edges, and glaze that give a hand-crafted, non-mechanical, decorative effect.
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| Device which opens a circuit when sensing element loses its pressure.
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| 1. Lack of success. 2. Bankruptcy of an individual or business. 3. Unsuccessful use of a material or process. 4. Deterioration, decay, or breaking down of a material at the end of its useful life. 5. The collapse of a building or structure.
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| 1. The slope of land. 2. The amount of slope given to horizontal runs of pipe to provide gravity flow in the line.
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| A rction of the bitumen softening point; sometimes caused by mixing asphalt with coal-tar pitch or overheating the bitumen.
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| spray gun overspray.
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| Thixotropic; characteristic of paint which becomes viscous on standing but thins down on stirring.
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| The rapid development of rigidity in a mixed portland cement paste, mortar or concrete without the evolution of much heat; this rigidity can be dispelled and plasticity regained by further mixing without addition of water; also called Premature Stiffening and Rubber Set.
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| shoring and formwork for concrete that is removed after the concrete beams, slabs, and columns are cured.
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