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Building materials
Any material used for or during the construction of buildings.
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truck mixer
Building materials; Concrete
A concrete mixer capable of mixing concrete in transit when mounted on a truck chassis.
troweling
Building materials; Concrete
Smoothing and compacting the unformed surface of fresh concrete by strokes of a trowel.
trowel
Building materials; Concrete
A thin, flat steel tool, either pointed or rectangular, provided with a handle and held in the hand, used to manipulate concrete, mastic, or mortar to create a dense, smooth ...
tremie
Building materials; Concrete
A pipe through which concrete may be placed under water, having at its upper end a hopper for filling, and a bale which permits handling of the assembly by a derrick. The bottom ...
transit-mixed concrete
Building materials; Concrete
Concrete produced from a central-batching plant, where the materials are proportioned and placed in truck-mixers for mixing enroute to the job or after arrival there.
tilt-up wall
Building materials; Concrete
Cast concrete units which are preformed which, when cured, are tilted to their vertical position and secured by mechanical fasteners to prior erected structural steel. Tilt-up ...
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