High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Underfloor air distribution (UFAD) is an air distribution strategy for providing ventilation and space conditioning in buildings as part of the design of an HVAC system. UFAD systems use the underfloor plenum beneath a raised floor to provide conditioned air through floor diffusers directly to the occupied zone.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! An underground rocket or rocket drill is a device for rapidly drilling holes through soil and rock of varying composition at rates up to 1 metre per second by utilising supersonic jets of hot gases. It was developed by Russian engineer Mikhail Tsiferov in 1948. According to Soviet geologist, academician Vladimir Smirnov, the device "may well bring about a revolution in the facilities for penetrating the interior of the earth".
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Uniclass (Unified Classification for the Construction Industry), published in 1997 in UK by the Construction Project Information Committee (CPIC).
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians (UCATT) is a British and Irish trade union which represents, as of December 2009, 127,433 workers in construction and allied trades, an increase of nearly 17,000 since 2003.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Union Station is Denver, Colorado, USA`s historic train station at 17th and Wynkoop in the LoDo district. The station first opened in 1881.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Union Station, also known as New Haven Railroad Station, is the main railroad passenger station in New Haven, Connecticut. Designed by noted American architect Cass Gilbert, the beaux-arts Union Station was completed and opened in 1920 after the previous Union Station (which was located at the foot of Meadow Street, near the site of the current Union Station parking garage) was destroyed by fire. It served the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad until it fell into decline, along with the rest of the railroad industry in North America after World War II. It was shuttered in 1972, leaving only the under-track `subway` open for passengers, and listed on the National Register of Historic...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Union Station is a major commuter railway station and the central inter-city transportation facility in Toronto, located on Front Street West and occupying the south side of the block bounded by Bay Street and York Street in Downtown. The station building is owned by the City of Toronto, while the train shed and trackage is owned by the commuter rail operator GO Transit. Serving 200,000 passengers a day, it is the busiest passenger transportation facility in Canada. Union Station has been designated a National Historic Site of Canada since 1975.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Washington Union Station is a train station and leisure destination visited by 32 million people each year in the center of Washington, D.C. The train station is served by Amtrak, MARC and Virginia Railway Express commuter rail services as well as by Washington Metro subway trains and local buses. It opened in 1907 and at its height during World War II some 200,000 people passed through it every day. It is also the headquarters for Amtrak.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing, Pipefitting and Sprinkler Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada, commonly known as the United Association (UA) is a trade union of journeymen and apprentices of the plumbing, pipefitting, and sprinkler fitting industry of the United States and Canada. The members fabricate, install and service piping systems.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The United States Armed Forces uses a number of terms to define the magnitude and extent of nuclear incidents.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! United Nations Operation in Somalia II (UNOSOM II) was the second phase of the United Nations intervention in Somalia, from March 1993 until March 1995.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (in case citations, W.D. Pa.) sits in Pittsburgh, Erie, and Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It is composed of ten judges as authorized by federal law. Judge Gary L. Lancaster is currently Chief Judge of the Western Pennsylvania District. Steven Richard Frank is currently the nominee of President Barack Obama (as of June 2011) to be the United States Marshal for the Western Pennsylvania District Court. Appeals from this court are heard by the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit).
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The United States Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel, completed in 1962, is the distinguishing feature of the Cadet Area at the United States Air Force Academy north of Colorado Springs. It was designed by renowned architect Walter Netsch of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill of Chicago. Construction was accomplished by Robert E. McKee, Inc., of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Originally controversial in its design, the Cadet Chapel has become a classic and highly regarded example of modernist architecture. The Cadet Chapel was awarded the American Institute of Architects` National Twenty-five Year Award in 1996 and, as part of the Cadet Area, was named a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 2004.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Various measures of paper quantity have been and are in use. Although there are no S.I. units such as quires and bales, there are ISO and DIN standards for the ream. Expressions used here include U.S. Customary units.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Universal Carrier, also known as the Bren Gun Carrier is a common name describing a family of light armoured tracked vehicles built by Vickers-Armstrong. Produced between 1934 and 1960, the vehicle was used widely by British Commonwealth forces during the Second World War. Universal Carriers were usually used for transporting personnel and equipment, mostly support weapons, or as machine gun platforms. With some 113,000 built in the United Kingdom and abroad, it was the most produced armoured fighting vehicle in history.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Universal`s Horror Make-Up Show (previously titled Phantom of the Opera Horror Make-Up Show and The Gory, Gruesome and Grotesque Horror Make-Up Show) is an attraction located at Universal Studios Florida. It opened with the theme park on June 7, 1990, and is a live show featuring at least three on-stage actors who comically instruct guests on Universal Pictures` legacy of horror movies. It was inspired by the former The Land of a Thousand Faces show at Universal Studios Hollywood.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! University Campus Suffolk (UCS) is an educational institution located in the county of Suffolk, United Kingdom that welcomed its first students in September 2007. Until then Suffolk was one of only three counties in England which did not have a University campus (the others being Wiltshire and Herefordshire). UCS is collaboration between its parent universities, the University of Essex and the University of East Anglia, its partner colleges and local government.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Upper Wardha Dam is an earthfill straight gravity dam across the Wardha River, a tributary of the Godavari River, near Simhora village in Morshi taluk in Amrawati district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The dam provides multipurpose benefits of irrigation, drinking water supply, flood control and hydropower generation.