Quotes About Construction

The technology that made possible long-distance pipeline construction was electric arc welding.

In mid-November Fermi reorganized his team into two twelve-hour shifts, a day crew under Walter Zinn (who continued to supervise materials production as well), a night crew under Herbert Anderson. Construction began on Monday morning, November 16, 1942.

Caldwell concluded that welding equipment and materials would cost no more than riveting, while the cost of labor would be reduced substantially.

Feeding the urban fleet of horses hay and grain supported many thousands of farmers. An idle riding horse in New York City required about 9,000 calories of oats and hay per day. A draft horse in the same city working in construction required almost 30,000 calories of the same feeds.

The thing is," Etienne continued, unfazed, "I've worked plenty construction, and I've done plenty work on this house--I know good renovation when I see it." Roo cast Miranda a bland look. "Construction sites are popular in this town. A chance to see Etienne Boucher without his shirt on. Very hot.

It may be one of the most beautiful hotels in the entire world. Were you to discount hotels that are constructed primarily to house sheikhs—hotels that will never house you or me—you would have to conclude that this was a truly remarkable place.

No doubt Carter would describe the underground city in excruciating detail, with exact measurements of each room, boring history on every statue and hieroglyph, and background notes on the construction of the magical headquarters of the House of Life. I will spare you that pain. It's big. It's full of magic. It's underground. There. Sorted.

Juan Bautista de Toledo

wondered if he really was capable of it. Then he thought what a thrill it would be to create something from nothing; to see, one day in the future, a new church here where now there was nothing but rubble, and to say: I made this.

And when things are simple, fewer mistakes are made. The most expensive part of a building is the mistakes.

Edgar's family believed in plans. His father had often said that you had to build the entire boat in your imagination before picking up the first piece of timber.

The Cathedral Builders by Jean Gimpel.

The cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, and most of the great Gothic churches that are still the most beautiful buildings in the cities of Europe, were erected in the Middle Ages, a time marked by violence, famine, and plague. The construction of a cathedral was a huge enterprise lasting decades.

His father had often said that you had to build the entire boat in your imagination before picking up the first piece of timber.

My stepfather, the builder, taught me how to perform certain operations in geometry: how to divide a line exactly in half, how to draw a right angle, and how to draw one square inside another so that the smaller is half the area of the larger.

Petranilla turned to the girls. "Our father was descended from Tom Builder, the stepfather and mentor of Jack Builder, architect of Kingsbridge Cathedral," she said.

The most expensive part of a building is the mistakes.

I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless.

The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants.

carrot-and-stick reinforcement' the behaviorists are telling us is needed for this bird to carry out these operations, thirteen different types of construction jobs? B. F. Skinner did a very good thing: in World War

Nor did he concern himself merely with the literary study of Scriptures. In his estimation, Hebrew grammar and rhetoric constituted the stones, and philosophy the mortar which had to be used in the construction of an enduring exegesis.

Like a fair house built upon another man's ground.

It was astonishing, the visitors said, the way all the white men worked together and set up the road so quickly, each man like a limb of a hundred-legged bug, each doing just what was needed at the right moment. A small thing for each man, but when it was done right, the bug scooted fast. Crazy

We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.