What is a time-weighted average (TWA)?
A time-weighted average (TWA) is the average exposure to a substance or noise over a set period, often used to express occupational exposure limits.
Installing an outdoor shower: the complete guide for your garden (cold and hot water)
Installing an outdoor shower? Here’s how to sort water supply, drainage, hot water and winterising. With costs, a step-by-step plan and mistakes to avoid.
Building a cold frame: extend your harvest right into winter
Want to build a cold frame? Exact dimensions, materials, a step-by-step build, sowing calendar and costs. Sow earlier and keep harvesting into winter.
What is texture in architecture?
Texture is the visible and tactile surface structure of a material, such as rough brickwork, blasted concrete or brushed timber.
What is a terrace?
A terrace is a paved outdoor area next to a house. Build-up, drainage fall, materials, permits and common mistakes.
What is terracotta?
Terracotta is unglazed fired clay with a red-orange colour, used for tiles, roof tiles, facade ornament and planters.
What is a terp?
A terp (wierde, Warft) is an artificial dwelling mound in low-lying coastal areas, raised to stay dry during floods.
What are dying mouldings?
Dying mouldings are Late Gothic vault ribs and arches that run straight into the pier without a capital (Dutch: tenietlopend).
What is the Temple of Khonsu at Karnak?
The Temple of Khonsu at Karnak (Luxor, Egypt) is a New Kingdom temple that clearly shows the classic layout of an Egyptian temple.
What is a tegula?
A tegula is the flat Roman roof tile with raised side flanges that, together with the imbrex, forms the classic Roman tiled roof.