Choosing the flooring for your home can feel overwhelming with all of the available choices. Carpet is also being replaced by many do to the conveniences and healthfulness of a wood floor. Replacing the traditional hardwood is bamboo. There are many benefits of bamboo flooring not found in traditional hardwood floors.
Bamboo is extremely durable and more adaptable to the elements than traditional flooring. It will withstand a great difference in fluctuations of temperatures. It will go from extreme cold to extreme heat without damaging the flooring. This durability makes it a great choice for all rooms including outside living areas. The ability for holding up under high humidity makes it great for warmer climates.
Working towards saving the environment is high on everyone’s list and using bamboo flooring is an excellent way to do your part in saving the environment. Bamboo will grow at a quicker rate than the trees used for hardwood flooring. Bamboo is not a tree but is a grass. The bamboo becomes mature and ready for use in about six years as opposed to using a tree that will...
The most common form of polyethylene is petroleum based or olefins based; as before mentioned polyethylene compounds have a wide commercial applicability and are made from non-renewable resources (Harding, Dennis, von Blottnitz, Harrison, & S.T.L., 2007). Its manufacturing processes are regarded as energy intensive and release significant amount of CO2 and heat into the atmosphere (Broderick, 2008). Next a little more detailed description of polyethylene’s production processes will be presented, with a focus on the way the material inputs are extracted and synthesized.
Woodworking has been around for millennia or more. People have used wood for building shelter, tools, and other useful things. There are many different kinds of woodworking. The most common today are marquetry and parquetry, which are both forms of veneering and caring. There are many different styles of woodworking all of which are a very impressive art form.
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The choice of wood also affects the violin's acoustical properties. Traditionally, violin makers used spruce and maple fr...
Concrete today is considered by many modern engineers and architects as a more efficient and effective alternative to steel n regards to the creation of buildings, ranging from low-story apartments to neck-breaking skyscrapers. Through the rapid growth and development of the world's major metropolises and growing cities, concrete today has become one of the most important building materials to date. According to the World Business Counsel for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), “it has become the most consumed substance on earth, only superseded by water, with three tons for each person used annually” (World). This huge demand for concrete makes the cement industry one of the world's largest carbon dioxide producers, accounting for about five percent of all man-made pollution. “Approximately one ton of carbon dioxide is put into the atmosphere for every ton of cement used” (World). The cause for this problem is the increase of the global population and the increasing demand for land and energy. It's effect is that as the population continues to increase, it forces builders and developers to meet the quota of creating unlimited amounts of infrastructure within a limited resource-filled world. Knowing this, a proposed and widely agreed solution is to make the concrete in an environmentally-conscious way that will incorporate more demolished concrete, scrap from past projects, and other recycled aggregates.
After several years of use and abuse of natural resources, humanity begins to awaken from its stunned by the advances of technology, to understand the magnitude of the impact caused by its presence in the environment. At present, trends in various aspects of human activity seek to achieve a harmonious relationship with nature; one of them is the practice of interior design. The main reason because the construction industry, in particular, has incorporated especially such attention, is the result that it has proved to be one of the main sources of pollution in water, air, and noise
The type of wood used to create a wand is one of the most important aspects of the wand’s potential affinities for its future owner. There are over 30 types of woods that can be used to make wands
Concrete also has its advantages. Concrete does not corrode, therefore concrete structures require less maintenance. Besides that, concrete has resistance to fire, therefore it is safer compare to the timber structure. Concrete has also resistance to cyclic loading.
Its ceiling and balcony fronts are made of plaster on wood; its walls thick plaster on brick; its doors, paneling as well as chairs wood. (Bucur, 2006) Wood mainly absorbs low frequencies, which partially come from mechanical noise and have longer reverberation time; hence it reduces reverberation time and brightens the timber of music. Plaster can be bent into various shapes and thus increasing sound reflection; hence audible music at every corner. In addition, thick plaster supports the strong bass sound. (Long, 2006) Carpets which are mainly used to cover the floor of the audience section (further discussion in next paragraph) are such powerful absorbers as the audience in the final performance, so they can mimic audience during rehearsals and ensure that the absorption level may not be too different from that of the final
Moving on from the organizational issues to the financial aspects, an analysis aiming to prove if sustainability is measurable or not will be provided, discussion based on IKEA’s sustainability report of 2015th year.
What can hugely affect the durability of your project is the materials you use. It is essential for your long-term investment, the efficiency of your home, and safety of your family. We would help you choose what materials would work best in every part of your home. Depending on your preferences, we always see to it that you get the best material according to your budget. We always strive to give you a home that is both efficient and
The preparation of making wood into a pulp for papermaking is accomplished in two different ways. In the groundwood process, blocks of wood are held against a fast revolving grindstone that shreds off short wood fibbers from the block. The fibbers produced by this process are short and are used only in the production of cheap newsprint and used to be added with other types of wood fibber in the making of high-quality paper. Another technique uses a chemical-solvent processes where wood chips are treated with solvents that remove “resinous material and lignin” from the wood, leaving pure fibbers of cellulose.
Well-recognized cities worldwide have built over the years great buildings with a variety of designs and concepts however consequently too much building has been making grievous decrease on energy efficiency. Now, “Green Architecture” has been popularized and as a result a modicum of energy efficiency has increased and also it has substantiated a new perspective, a new versatile way on architecture.
Farm Forestry, along with Plantations, is very effective in preserving old-growth forests. The Combined Standing Forest Resource in Australia was 1.5 million hectares of planted trees. . In China, the law states that each and every citizen must plant at least 11 trees a year, every year. Raising awareness and education are other... ...
middle of paper ... ... These grotesque or animal-like trunks and root formations are still highly prized today. Chinese bonsai come from the landscape of images of fiery dragons and coiled serpents; this takes far greater precedence over natural beauty unlike the Japanese. The Japanese focus on using native species for their bonsai, namely pines, azaleas and maples (regarded as the traditional bonsai plants).