Tom Broadbent has adapted the early river waterwheel electrical generation system for use in high-rise buildings.
There are some high-rise buildings that are running their elevators and their stairwell lights on generators.
Glass broke in high-rise buildings, causing the injuries, the federal Emergency Ministry said in a statement.
Construction crews are swarming over new high-rise buildings in Seattle and big suburban areas such as Bellevue.
Some high-rise buildings in China do not have a fourth or 14th floor for that very reason.
High-rise buildings in major cities are designed so that they sway rather than shake during earthquakes, making them safer.
Studies have also found that the high-rise buildings in cities create a barrier that can redirect regional weather patterns.
Dandong's city government has moved offices to the area, but the thickets of surrounding high-rise buildings remain unfinished and empty.
The old town of mud-brick houses linked by labyrinthine alleys is disappearing, eaten up by broad avenues lined by high-rise buildings.
Peel's Liverpool Waters plan includes building high-rise buildings housing offices, shops and up to 14, 000 apartments on an area of disused land.
It is also ideal for hopping between high-rise buildings in cities it being stable in winds due to gyroscopic forces of the spinning disc.
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The quake was felt across the Gulf in Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, where workers were evacuated from high-rise buildings as a precaution.
The number of fire engines that respond to fires in high-rise buildings has now been increased and there have been changes to equipment and tactics.
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My uncle is an engineer and he was teaching the next day in McGill and coincidentally the lecture he was giving was about high-rise buildings.
Schindler lifts, in use in hundred of high-rise buildings, use technology such as a personal identification card readers or keypads to understand the exact requirements of a user.
Only thorough research could discern that residents of high-rise buildings are more likely to be victims of crime, because stacked tenants make for poor monitors of the surrounding streets.
From the 1950s onwards, the collective turned a once sleepy, small town of 6, 000 into a city with massive high-rise buildings and a population of exactly 67, 881 in 1989.
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Mea culpas also came from those who were now stranded at the top of high-rise buildings or stuck in areas with no power, hot water and dwindling food supplies.
One expert in the UAE has estimated that 70% of the high-rise buildings there have panel facade cladding made of a combustible thermoplastic core held between two sheets of aluminium.
In her letter to Mr Pickles, she has recommended the government publishes national guidance on fire safety for residents in high-rise buildings and urged local authorities to install sprinkler systems.
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Chinese kitchens are often small and in high-rise buildings -- creating a squeeze for a cooker which is between 90 and 110cm wide and weighs around the same as a baby elephant.
Currently, about 150 high-rise buildings are going up in Toronto, more than anywhere else in North America and twice the number in New York City, according to Emporis, a German data provider.
Shortly afterward, Abu Ghaith warned in a speech that "the storms shall not stop especially the airplanes storm" and advised Muslims, children and al-Qaida allies to stay out of planes and high-rise buildings.
In her letter to Southwark Council she has recommended that it reviews its policies concerning fire risk assessments of its high-rise buildings, that it trains staff and liaises with emergency services about access to property.
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Abu Ghaith later warned "the storms shall not stop, especially, the airplane storms" and warned Muslims and foes of the United States not to board aircraft or live in high-rise buildings, according to the indictment.
Before the experiment in the hanger could begin, researchers calculated the pressures the house would experience in a small-scale study conducted at the University's Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory -- which has over 40 years of expertise testing high-rise buildings and bridges.
AeroVironment (AV), the official home charging-dock provider for the Nissan LEAF and co-developer of the first modern-day electric vehicle, the GM Impact, will partner with Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO) to design and build public and semi-private charging stations at convenient locations for electric vehicle owners, including high-rise buildings, resorts and rental car facilities.
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In the latest example, one upheld a developer's refusal to repay loans used to construct two high-rise office buildings in Jakarta.
However, the entire landscape has changed and hundreds of high-rise hotel buildings, apartment blocks and restaurants have mushroomed in the area.
Construction crews working on high-rise rental buildings roam the area as joggers make their way through a newly opened portion of the waterfront.
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