MANUFACTURED BUILDING MATERIALS

Warming -up

1. Discuss the following:

• What a modern industrial technology do you know?

• Have you been at any industrial plant?

• Have you seen any process of industrial technology?

2. Try to guess the meaning of the following words. Use the dictionary if you need:

· ingredient

· mechanical extrusion process

· conveyor belt

· diagonal boards

· balloon frame system

3. Make up your own sentences with the following words:

a production of brick (производство кирпича), a timber technology (технология обработки лесоматериала), an industrial method (промышленный метод), а small building (небольшое строение), an innovation in building construction (инновацион­ный метод в строительстве), a production development (развитие производства), a mechanical process (механический процесс).

4. Read the text and find new words from the text.

5. Find and translate all the sentences containing the following words:

 

• warehouse

• timber technology

• laborious process of hand-molding

• balloon frame

• building construction

• conveyor belt

• constituent building materials

One of the building materials used in a construction is a brick. The production of a brick was industrialized in the 19th century. Earlier it was a process of hand-molding. Later it was superseded by «pressed» bricks. It was. a mass production by a mechanical extrusion process. In this way clay was squeezed by "pressed" through a rectangular die as a continuous column and sliced to size by a wire cutter. Periodically tired kilns were used. Bricks were moved slowly on a conveyor belt. New methods considerably reduced the cost of a brick. That's why it became one of the constituent building materials of the age.

Rapid development of timber technology was in the 19th century in North America. It was explained large softwood fir's forests and pine trees. There they were used as industrial methods. Steam- and water-powered sawmills began producing standard-dimension timbers in the 1820s. The production of cheap machine made nails in the 1830s. It provided other necessary ingredient — a balloon frame. That made possible a major innovation in building construction. The first example was a warehouse erected in Chicago in 1832 by George W. Snow. There was a great demand for small buildings of all types settled on North American continent. Light timber frame provided a quick, flexible, inexpensive solution to this problem. Heavy limbers and complex joinery were abandoned in the balloon frame system. The building walls were framed with 5x 10-centimetre (2x4-inch) vertical members. They were placed at 40 centimeters (16 inches) from the centre. This supplied a roof and floor joists, usually 5x25 centimeters (2x10 inches) and placed 40 centimeters {16 inches) apart and were capable of spanning up to six meters (20 feet).

6. Read the text again and translate the second paragraph from the text.

7. Read the text again and find the main idea of each paragraph.

8. Reading for specific information. Read the text and answer the following questions to the text:

 

• When was the production of a brick industrialized?

• When did rapid development of a timber technology undergo?

• What was George W. Snow?

9. Read the text again and complete the following sentences:

• The production of a brick was industrialized in the...

• It was a mass production...

• ...in North America.

• There were large softwood fir's forests...

• ...in the 1820s.

• ...in the 1830s.

• ...were moved slowly.

• ...it was a process.

• ...a great demand for small buildings.

10. Read the following statements and say whether they are true or false. Correct the false statements:

The production of brick was industrialized in the 20th century.

• These were not mass-produced by a mechanical extrusion process in which clay was squeezed by "pressed" through a rectangular die as a continuous column and sliced to size by a wire cutter.

• There was also a proliferation of elaborately shaped and stamped masonry units.

• Timber technology underwent rapid development in the 20^th century in North America, where there were large forests of softwood fir and pine trees that could be harvested and
processed by industrial methods; steam- and water powered sawmills began producing standard-dimension timbers in quantity in the 1920s.

• The production of cheap machine-made nails in the 1830s provided the other necessary ingredient that made possible a major innovation in building construction, the balloon frame;
the first example is thought to be a warehouse erected in Chicago in 1832 by George W. Snow.

Lesson 41-42

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