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Building materials
Any material used for or during the construction of buildings.
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paving forms
Building materials; Concrete
Heavy duty metal forms used in the placement of concrete for concrete roadways, commercial driveways, intersection entrance and exit ramps, and airport work.
paving machine
Building materials; Concrete
A self-propelled piece of construction equipment that forms and finishes concrete simultaneously.
blaine fineness
Building materials; Concrete
The fineness of granular materials such as cement and pozzolan, expressed as total surface area in square centimeters per gram, determined by the Blaine air-permeability apparatus ...
bar support (BAR CHAIR)
Building materials; Concrete
A rigid device of formed wire, plastic, or concrete, used to support or hold reinforcing bars in proper position during concrete operations.
barrel
Building materials; Concrete
A unit of weight measure for Portland cement, equivalent to four bags or 376 pounds.
batch
Building materials; Concrete
The quantity produced as the result of one mixing operation, as in a batch of concrete.
batch box
Building materials; Concrete
A container of known volume used to measure the constituents of concrete or mortar in proper proportions.
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- Brackets (31)
- Bricks (638)
- Cement (381)
- Concrete (2341)
- Finishing building materials (84)
- Lintel (25)
- Lumber (7432)
- Pipework and drainage (59)
- Sanitary ware (0)
- Stone (3339)
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- Wire (328)
- Wood flooring (1493)