ferro-cement
ferrocement

His own home is dome-shaped, built four metres underground and made from ferro-cement.

My art form is sculpture in ferro-cement, fibre-glass and ceramics.

Made of lightweight ferro-cement, they range in height from 13 inches to 3 feet and come with their own concealed pumps.

A barge yacht previously built as the Landrail from ferro-cement.

Discover the techniques and creative possibilities of working with ferro-cement as a sculptural medium.

The inability to mass-produce boats in ferro-cement has led there to there being few examples around.

The engineering requirements involved the design of an elevated access road of ferro-cement across the bush clad gullies.

Ferro- means iron although metal commonly used in ferro-cement is the iron alloy steel.

For further economy, formed hollow artificial boulders from his ferro-cement (French: "ciment et fer").

The statue is cast in ferro-cement(?)

For example, the pipe is made of simple plastic and the cistern is made of ferro-cement around chicken wire.

Hulls built properly of ferro-cement are more labor-intensive than steel or fiberglass, so there are few examples of commercial shipyards using this material.

Analysis of Ferro-Cement in Bending, Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, 1969.

Featuring a sleek, white shell built with ferro-cement (a malleable combination of sand and cement used in boat building) the house looks like a bulging-eyed, high-backed beetle.

Ferro-cement, as used in the large heads in the ARFT sculpture, also appears as a material in Graeme's architectural work during the 80's.

In the first half of the twentieth century Italian Pier Luigi Nervi was noted for his use of ferro-cement, in Italian called ferro-cemento.

We make Sculptures of Game Animals, Horses, Birds, Curlers, out of Bronze, Marble Composite, Fibreglass, Metal and Ferro-cement.

At a crucial stage of my development the "miniature sculptures" in the form of jewelry grew... and grew to creations now made from limestone and ferro-cement of up to 5 ton.

Made from ferro-cement over a steel infrastructure, Capall Mor accoutered with a helmet featuring a unicorn horn, typical of the war horses used by the Celtic chiefs during their battles.

In the 1980s, there was considerable enthusiasm for the introduction of ferro-cement and brick bins throughout Africa, but these were often found to be too complicated for farmers to construct, and too costly.

On Wednesday 9th May we lent our support to Bolton School's Millennium Project by providing the tradesmen and equipment required to render, with ferro-cement, the hull of a 48ft long, 20 tonne sail training vessel being constructed by the pupils.

I'm starting up a Ferrocement construction company and am interested in using your ideas.

Since the late 1930s, there have also been ferrocement pleasure boats.

It is constructed using bricks or by a ferrocement mixture.

The wall is essentially non-load bearing and made of ferrocement.

A directory of people and organizations knowledgeableabout ferrocement technology is available.

However, when the war ended in November 1918, only 12 ferrocement ships were under construction and none of them had been completed.

There are basically three types of methods of ferrocement.

In Palestine, as elsewhere, ferrocement has been found to perform best for durability and clean maintenance.

The Saldarini house takes a beautiful organic shape, made of wire mesh and ferrocement.

Ferrocement originated in the 1840s in France and is the origin of reinforced concrete.

Then I sailed to England on a ferrocement ketch.

Ferrocement, only one inch thick, was used for the undulating walls and domes in order to reduce load.

"ferrocement" being referred to as ferro-concrete or reinforced concrete to better describe the end product instead of its components.

Ferrocement is often used to buildcylindrical rainwater catchment tanks.

The bottom and sides of the water storage tanks consist of ferrocement plates with space frames.

Concrete reinforced with chicken wire or hardware cloth yields ferrocement, a versatile construction material.

Acedia, incompetence and ferrocement - all the makings of a decent sea yarn.

In 1873, the inventor of ferrocement, Joseph Monier expanded his patents to include bridges.

Kristian Laubjerg 4(3) Training women to build ferrocement water tanks and latrines.

Rich Harvest, a 72-foot ferrocement staysail schooner, infamous as the "offshore off-licence"

In the 1970s, designers adapted their yacht designs to the then very popular backyard building scheme of building a boat using ferrocement.

(Ferrocement ships require thick hulls, which means extra mass to push and less space for cargo.)

Create your own stunning take-home piece and collaborate in the design and construction of a beautiful mosaic & ferrocement bench.

The term "ferrocement" has been applied by extension to other composite materials, including some containing no cement and no ferrous material.

Ferrocement Constructions in New Zealand and elsewhere.