Word: modularity
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...last year put into effect the Occupational Safety and Health Act (O.S.H.A.). It covers all industries except mining, which is regulated by two other safety acts. The Bureau of Mines, which is in charge of mine safety, is looking into devices to keep trapped miners alive, including Westinghouse-developed modular steel shelters that carry oxygen and food, ride on wheels and follow workers almost everywhere that they go underground. The new, broader occupational safety law laid down strict regulations for every employer and empowered federal inspectors to levy fines of as high as $10,000 and six months in jail...
...problems of society. The photographs in the exhibit show exactly how he solved some of these architectural problems: the walls of all glass, often called glass-curtain walls (as in the Fagus Shoe-Last Factory, 1911), convey an airiness and transparency never before attributed to building structures; the modular furniture and even buildings, like the faculty-housing for Dessau Bauhaus, are each really identical, but are built as mirror-image units, and are further differentiated by being placed at 90 degree angles...
...these projects, Boeing has gone into a variety of other fields. The Los Angeles police department recently bought several units of a Boeing radio scrambler that prevents public monitoring of police calls. The company is also overseeing construction in the Seattle area of housing projects that demonstrate new modular and prefabricated building techniques. In partnership with El Paso Natural Gas Co. and Reading & Bates, Boeing formed the Resources Conservation Co., which last week opened a desalination plant in El Paso and recently won a contract to build a similar operation at Cancel Bay Plantation in the Virgin Islands...
...promising alternative to skyrocketing housing costs is mass-produced, "module" houses built room by room in factories where the workers generally do not belong to highly paid crafts unions. Modular construction has doubled in the past five years, and this year will account for 80,000 new houses. Some large builders like National Homes and Stirling Homex turn out modular homes that are put together like building blocks on the development sites. The nation's biggest builder, ITT Levitt, operates one of the most modern of these plants in Battle Creek, Mich., turning out one complete house every hour...
...audience does nothing else, it can always enjoy this year's new visual delights within the 75-ft. proscenium. At stage rear and stage right are two modular kinetic sculptures by Czechoslovakia's Milan Dobes, 41, that provide a light-show backdrop of spinning whites, reds and blues for Mayuzumi's Concerto for Percussion. Even the players' chairs are part of a huge steel stage sculpture designed by Japan's Yasuhide Kobashi. Perhaps "chairs" is not the best word: the seats are actually wood slats fastened like steps up and down vertical tubes that...