Word: sprinkler
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Eliot House is also undergoing extensive internal renovations, as are Kirkland, Adams, and Dunster Houses. If all goes as planned, these Houses will have new showers, water-saving toilets, and high-efficiency lighting by September 8. Kirkland House will also have fire alarm and sprinkler upgrades...
...cool day last September, developer Larry Silverstein walked proudly through the lobby of 7 World Trade Center, the first of six skyscrapers planned for ground zero. He ticked off a few of the building's amenities--a lobby wall featuring computerized art; a sprinkler system with twice the capacity required by code--then made his pitch: "It is going to be the safest office building in America...
...Just over an hour's drive from Mildura's sprinkler-fed lawns and orange groves, the Willandra is starkly arid. But it wasn't always so forbidding. For thousands of years during the last Ice Age, when it was possible to walk from Tasmania to Papua New Guinea, water was everywhere, with a series of five large, interconnected lakes and 14 smaller ones offering a rich larder - mussels, golden perch and cod, as well as marsupials and water birds - for communities camped on their shores. As the lakes receded and were refilled, prevailing winds layered sand and clay on their...
...renovations also included updating safety systems and bringing fire and sprinkler systems into line with revised code...
Referring to a red tie hanging from a sprinkler, which functions as a make-shift tie-rack, Corker says that splitting his face time between administrators and students has its snags...