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Buildings
A building is a permanent construction or structure that is built for human habitation. It may be for housing, commerce, industry, education, or other purpose. Questions pertaining to the history and construction of structures which house people at work or home are found in this category.
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When was Petronas Towers created?
The Petronas Twin Towers took 7 years to build. The two towers were built by different companies. Tower 1 was built by a Japanese consortium, while Tower 2 was built by a group of South Korean companies. Interestingly enough, while Tower 1 started construction first, Tower 2 was completed faster.
What is the Tallest building in Boston?
John Hancock Building (Hancock Tower), 60 floors. Prudential Center building is 2nd with 52 stories.
What are the three tallest buildings in the US and how tall are they?
The world's tallest building is the Burj Khalifa (formerly know as Burj Dubai) at 2,722.57'. Next is the Abraj al Bait Clock Tower at 1,972'.
How many bundles of roof shingles to cover 2000 square feet?
When talking about the area of a roof, remember that it is not the same as the square footage of the structure. For example a 20 x 30' building with a 12" overhang and a 4/12 pitch will have 736 sq ft of roof vs only 600 sq ft of slab.
One square of shingles covers 100 square feet. 15 year shingles come 3 bundles to a square. 25 year come 4 bundles to a square.
What was the name of the first building to have 100 Floors?
There are lots of buildings higher than 100 stories. Many skyscrapers are taller.
What is the top of the building called?
The running joke back in the day to ask a recruit (before everybody started calling them trucks) was "How many trucks are on an Army post?" Answer: One--on top of the flagpole. Those other things are called "Vehicles, wheeled"...now drop and give me 20.
ANS2:The ball or decorative top on a flag pole is called a final, The truck is the bolt that holds the final to the pole.(If you want to call it a "finial" or "final", as if it were just a decorative cap on a fence post, you could...but anybody who has been in the military will take the time to correct you.)
Why are the Petronas Towers taller than the Sears Tower?
Antenna 451.9m. Towers 378.6m. They were the tallest buildings in the world from 1998 to 2004.
Is the Sears Tower the tallest buildingin the US?
There are a couple of taller buildings, now. The tallest is the Burj Khalifa in the country of Dubai.
What are typical dimensions for apartment buildings?
what are the typical dimensions of an apartment building
Why are super skyscrapers so dangerous?
People think skyscrapers are dangerous because they are really high in the air and say a plane is coming, there is a high chance that it can hit the skyscraper. Also the higher the skyscrapers are, the higher chance of it falling down through any cause like a hurricane. Last but not least, some people just find them dangerous because they have a fear of hights.
How many stories does a buliding have to have to be a skyscraper?
According to me a building which changes the skyline is a skyscraper. i think it should have more than 15 storeys
What is the difference between a mansion and a manor house?
A house is a conventional building for a family to live in with from 4 to 10 rooms. A mansion is the home of a rich man with maybe 20 rooms and often surrounded by a lot of land.
What are some disadvantages to airtight buildings?
They lack fresh air so you would have to open a window once a while or add a ventilation system.
What are the eight tallest buildings in the world in order from shortest to tallest.?
As of October 2023, the eight tallest buildings in the world, in order from shortest to tallest, are: 8. Tianjin CTF Finance Centre (Tianjin, China) at 530 meters, 7. Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre (Guangzhou, China) at 530 meters, 6. Tianjin CTF Finance Centre (Tianjin, China) at 530 meters, 5. One World Trade Center (New York City, USA) at 541 meters, 4. Ping An Finance Centre (Shenzhen, China) at 599 meters, 3. Shanghai Tower (Shanghai, China) at 632 meters, 2. Abraj Al Bait Clock Tower (Mecca, Saudi Arabia) at 601 meters, and 1. Burj Khalifa (Dubai, UAE) at 828 meters.
How long would it take for humans to build a tower to the moon?
That is a rather tricky question. A tower connecting the moon and Earth directly would be nearly impossible to build, since the moon is constantly moving around the Earth, and the tower would have to move with it. Instead, one could build a space elevator to geostationary orbit. Distance-wise you'd still have thousands of miles to go, but you'd have the majority of the necessary velocity needed to get there already.
Now, how long would it take to build? We don't know for certain, since we've never tried making one. To give a point of reference, if we built it like a traditional building, like the Burj Dubai (the world's current tallest building), it would take a very long time. The Burj Dubai stands roughly a half mile tall and took three years to build. To build a space elevator to geostationary orbit, it would have to reach 22,236 miles high, and it would have to be gravitationally anchored to a point in space twice that distance away. So if we built it that way we'd be looking at a process at least 132,000 years long.
But! That's why we wouldn't build one that way! Instead we could use an incredibly strong tether between a point on the surface and a point twice the distance from here to geostationary orbit, and have the "elevator car" ride along the tether. This would be much quicker to make, but it would still take years, maybe even a decade or two to construct. We may not see a space elevator in our lifetimes, but hopefully sometime in the future we'll have one!
What are the men called Who built skyscrapers?
Roughnecks according to "America the Story of Us: Cities"
