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box beam

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box beam
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(Miscellaneous Technologies / Building) another name for box girder
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Noun1.box beam - a beam built up from boards; has a hollow rectangular cross section
beam - long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction


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It is the surviving fragment of a steel rectangular box beam that once stood vertically from bedrock to the roof of the South Tower of the World Trade Center.
The new path will be built using the large concrete box beams from the temporary I-5 bridge that's in place now, he said.
Welsh timber is milled at BSW Sawmills, Newbridge on Wye, kiln-dried at Heartwood, Caersws and laminated into boards for box beams in Tregynon.
 
 
 
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