Across
- 2. Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning is the use of various technologies to control the temperature, humidity, and purity of the air in an enclosed space.
- 3. A timber roof truss is a structural framework of timbers designed to bridge the space above a room and to provide support for a roof.
- 6. a brick or building material of sun dried earth and straw
- 9. a long, sturdy piece of squared timber or metal spanning an opening or part of a building, usually to support the roof or floor above
- 10. the lowest load-bearing part of a building, typically below ground level.
Down
- 1. is a network of electrical components deployed to supply, transfer, and use electric power.
- 4. the process of making a yard or other piece of land more attractive by altering the existing design, adding ornamental features, and planting trees and shrubs
- 5. a length of timber or steel supporting part of the structure of a building, typically arranged in parallel series to support a floor or ceiling
- 7. the foundation for a floor in a building.
- 8. There is a practice among geotechnical engineers in my area that is locally called an “engineered footing.” This practice is used mainly in residential foundation construction where weak soils are encountered at the bottom-of-footing elevation and a firm bearing layer underlies the weak soils