A sett, also known as a block or Belgian block, is a broadly rectangular quarried stone used in paving roads and walkways. Formerly in widespread use,...
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badgers, usually consisting of a network of tunnels. Sett or SETT may also refer to: Sett (paving), a shaped piece of rock used to make hard surfaces for...
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3%) with light asphalt road clothing, 15,713 km (18,2%) stone paving (such as sett paving or cobblestone roads) and 8,014 km (9,3%) dirt roads. Regarding...
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cobbles, pitches or setts than tarmac or asphalt. Cobblestones set in sand have the environmental advantage of being permeable paving, and of moving rather...
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(disambiguation) Pavé, a stonesetting method Pavê, a Brazilian dessert Sett (paving), a kind of cobblestone road surface (from the French pavé meaning "cobblestoned")...
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Permeable paving surfaces are made of either a porous material that enables stormwater to flow through it or nonporous blocks spaced so that water can...
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Road surface (redirect from Street paving)
superficial surface covering. Paving materials include asphalt, concrete, stones such as flagstone, cobblestone, and setts, artificial stone, bricks, tiles...
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soft". Notable features of the route were the fifth stage's sections of sett paving, the five high altitude stage finishes and the lack time trialling, with...
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Pavers (flooring) (redirect from Modular Paving)
A paver is a paving stone, tile, brick or brick-like piece of concrete commonly used as exterior flooring. They are generally placed on top of a foundation...
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Delgada, Azores Portugal Portuguese pavement incorporating pavement lights Sett (paving) Mosaic Terrazzo Engineered stone Prof. Ricardo Cunha Teixeira. Artigo...
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astronomy, mechanics, mathematics Agriculture: the Four Seasons The coloured sett paving which was laid around the memorial in 1987 depicts floral representations...
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and 2016 respectively. Notable was stage nine's 21.7 km (13.5 mi) of sett paving, split across fifteen sectors, a feature that was last seen in the 2015...
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3%) with light asphalt road clothing, 15,713 km (18,2%) stone paving (such as sett paving or cobblestone roads) and 8,014 km (9,3%) dirt roads. Motorways...
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May 68 (redirect from Beneath the Paving Stones, the Beach)
the first barricades were raised, the students recognized that the stone setts were placed atop sand. The slogan encapsulated the movement's views on urbanization...
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Asphalt concrete (redirect from Asphalt paving)
cement at 93 °C (200 °F). Paving and compaction must be performed while the asphalt is sufficiently hot. In many locales paving is restricted to summer...
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with some not damaged at all, but water-bound macadam surfaces and sett paving without concrete underlay were vulnerable to rutting and other issues...
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St. Peter's Square (section Paving)
patron, Alexander VII. The paving is varied by radiating lines in travertine, to relieve what might otherwise be a sea of setts. In 1817 circular stones...
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bullhead rail set on chaired sleepers with open ballast, but using granite sett paving in the station forecourt. The line started at the station with a short...
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include concrete, decorative brick, cobblestone, block paving, asphalt, gravel, resin-bound paving, and decomposed granite. These materials may be surrounded...
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National Society of Street Masons, Paviors and Road Makers (redirect from Amalgamated Operative Street Masons, Paviors, Stone and Sett Dressers Society of Great Britain and Ireland)
and Ireland, while in 1899 it became the Street Masons, Paviors, Stone and Sett Dressers Society. Membership peaked at 893 in 1900, then began a gradual...
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was quarried at Rubislaw quarry for more than 300 years, and used for paving setts, kerb and building stones, and monumental and other ornamental pieces...
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used as a burial ground. As a result of relaying the 19th century granite sett stones, shallow excavations of the foundations revealed remains of a building...
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The British House of Commons passed a series of Paving Acts from the 18th century. The 1766 Paving & Lighting Act authorized the City of London Corporation...
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faster movement between cities and as a consequence of improvements in paving processes, techniques and materials. These original high-speed roads were...
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in 1817) is now marked by the Heart of Midlothian, a heart-shaped sett in the paving of Edinburgh's Royal Mile. The only remaining part of the Old Tolbooth...
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Natural Stone Paving (2010) - "We've Paved the Monopoly Board" - Limited edition of 250 sets manufactured for Marshalls Natural Stone Paving. Each traditional...
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science to road building. A Frenchman from an engineering family, he worked paving roads in Paris from 1757 to 1764. As chief engineer of road construction...
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were burnt at the stake just outside the city wall. A cross of granite setts in the road opposite Balliol College marks the location. Nearby in St Giles'...
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storm sewers, again to allow the runoff to soak into the ground. Permeable paving materials can be used in building sidewalks, driveways and in some cases...
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