...Level of Development and Level of Detail came into play with the advancement of computers and BIM technology. As the AEC industry began move towards using computer renditions for design and analysis, it became necessary to define the certainty with which drawings could be trusted. The detailing of elements changes throughout the duration of a project, so it is important for the team to be able to recognize what level of detail is provided and how trustworthy it is. For this reason, different levels of development were created to allow for a standardized system of analyzing drawings and details. Level of Development vs. Level of Detail The level of Development (LOD) enables construction teams to specify and distinguish the content and reliability of Building Information Models at various stages of the design and construction process with high levels of clarity and reliability. The LOD describes the minimum dimensional, spatial, quantitative, and qualitative data included in a Model Element to support the authorized uses associated with such LOD. Since each Model Element develops at a different rate, the Level of Development (LOD) framework allows the project team to understand the progression of a Model Element from conceptual idea to precise final definition and description. The LOD of a given Model Element informs other Project Participants how developed the information is expected to be. This allows participants to extent to decipher which that information can be relied...
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...VOCABULABY New words | Part of speech | Definition | Making sentences | Intervention | n | The act of becoming involved in an argument, fight, or other difficult situation in order to change what happens | The intervention of Union helps to prevent the conflict between Pakistan and Iran | Dubious | adj | Feeling doubt or not feeling certain | I'm dubious about his promises to change his ways. | Inextricably | adv | If two or more things are inextricably linked etc, they are very closely related and affect each other | His name was inextricably linked with the environmental movement. | Assiduous | adj | Showing hard work, care and attention to detail | The Government has been assiduous in the fight against inflation. | Augment | v | To increase the size or value of something by adding something to it | He would have to find work to augment his income. | Inferior | adj | Not good, or not as good as someone or something else | These products are inferior to those we bought last year. | Relegate | v | To put something into a lower or less important rank or position | She resigned when she was relegated to a desk job. | Debilitate | v | To make someone or something physically weak | Progress has been debilitated by a refusal to share ideas. | Prescribe | v | To say what medical treatment someone should have | The drug is often prescribed for ulcers. | Taint | v | To spoil something, especially food or blood, by adding a harmful substance, or...
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...Detailed Job Description Job title: (insert job title) Reporting to: (insert supervisor’s title) Salary: (insert salary per hour, per annum or total package including base salary, superannuation, commissions or benefits) Hours: (insert average number of hours per week or type of employment such as casual, full-time) Location: (insert the location of the position and any travel required) Purpose of the position (Insert a short paragraph which describes the overall purpose of this position and how it contributes to the goals or function of the business. Include the authority level, for example, “manager” or “support staff”) Responsibilities & duties Responsibility 1 – (insert responsibility or duty of the position including frequency or duration of work, effort and skill required, complexity of tasks and equipment required) Work standard: (insert what aspect of the responsibility will be reviewed to determine if the job is being done correctly, for example, time frame, or number of completed tasks per week) Responsibility 2 – for example, “to manage the daily operations of the office including organising mail, couriers, catering and travel. Staff need to be able to use MS EXCEL confidently, to arrange global travel and to work on their own.” Work standard – for example, “at the end of each working week, all catering events for the following week must be finalised.” Responsibility 3 – (insert additional items as needed) Work standard – (insert additional items as...
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...that you follow your supervisors direction at all times. The only exception to this would be if you were directed to perform a task that was unethical, illegal, or unsafe. In the future if you fail to follow any company policy you will be subject to disciplinary action up to and including possible termination. Sincerely, Robert R. Smith Supervisor John E. Adams Employee My signature does not necessarily indicate that I am in agreement with the above statements; however, it does indicate that I was informed of the contents of this letter. Sample Employee Conduct Policy Every individual is expected to execute their assigned duties as directed during on duty time. Insuring quality in everything we do requires attention to detail and working quickly or carelessly has a negative impact on every aspect of our business. It is also critical to our success that every individual will respect and cooperate with other staff members, customers, and supervisors when performing their assigned duties. In the event there is ever a conflict it is the responsibility of everyone to bring that to the attention of their supervisor for resolution and will not engage with any...
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...affect the employeers, but could also affect the employee's. "The economic cost of six-hour workdays is prohibitive. Either workers or the employer will end up paying for it. If it's the workers, they lose two hour wages each day."(Six-Hour Days Will Never Work, para2). In the end, it will be the employee's who have to pay, and give up a quarter of their usual pay. A full-time worker recieves benefits such as health plans, which in this case would be revoked because they would no longer be working a full-time job. "Conditions need to be much worse for eight -hour workers before a shorter workday would be seriously considered"(Six-Hour Days Will Never Work, para3). The author opposing of the six-hour work day, in the last paragraph goes into detail of more important controvirsal issues we are dealing with right now. Stating gender and miniority wage gaps need to be expressed, that here in the united states we have very fair, and safe work enviorments that need to be praised instead of asking for shorter days. I agree there are bigger issues to confront, but I don't see why we can't start here by making small changes for healhier and more productive...
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...is the procedural language. Procedural language is defined as a paradigm in which a program acts on passive objects using procedures. When procedural language is used, the program consists of nothing but a lot of procedure calls. Under the procedural language there are specific languages in which computers fall under. FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslation), COBOL (Common Buisness-Oriented Language), Pascal, C,and Ada. FORTRON was designed by IBM engineers in 1957 and it was the first known high-level language. FORTRAN had high-precision arithmetic, capability of handling complex numbers, and also exponentiation computation (Knox, 2013). COBOL was designed by computer scientists (Forouzan, and Mosharaf, 2008). COBOL had hast access to files and databases, updated of files and databases, large amounts of generated reports, and user-friendly formatted output. Pascal was invented in 1971 and was designed to teach programming to novices by emphasizing the structured programming approach (Forouzan, and Mosharaf, 2008). The C language was developed in the early 1970s and it had high-level instructions that hides hardware details from the programmer. Ada was created for the US Department of Defense to be the uniform language of DoD contractors. Object-oriented paradigm is a language that deals with active objects instead of passive objects. The book gives an example of use of everyday life of object-oriented paradigm such as vehicle, dishwasher, etc. Object-oriented paradigm has two specifc...
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...Leveraging Current Technology for Human Capital Talent Management WOILE 15-06, CW4 James Arnold Army senior leaders all agree that talent management is an integral piece to human capital distribution; however, the means and current business practices do not meet the current demands. The current manning conferences held at the Army Human Resources Command (AHRC) are highly technicial and provide a modicum of the true talent pool available for the officers identified to move based upon time, information resources, and the Mission Essential Requirements (MER) list provided by the field. The future of talent management distribution hinges upon the Army leveraging current technology for data mining which will enhance talent management distribution in a regionally aligned global force. Observation: Legacy Human Resources systems lack data elements specifically designed to highlight talent management coupled with the fact that the Officer Record Brief (ORB) does not always reflect an accurate picture. Discussion: The Office of Economic and Manpower Analysis (OEMA) conducted a pilot program call the “Green Pages” on talent management that included input from organizations on positions and officer input identifying skill sets. The pilot provided evidence that officers felt more in control of the assignment process and identified officers with more specialized skills that are not captured using current HR systems. Units had more input in whom they selected based upon certain...
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...Case 1: Encosta Memories 1) a) No, it is not correct. b) The statement is not correct because once a system is acquired. Whether it is internally designed or externally purchased. It still requires regular IT maintenance. Some Examples are IT security, protection from hackers or problems, IT technical support. IT performance includes the ability to reduce downtime, increase storage capacity and so on. IT maintenance requires ongoing costs and that you can not be one hundred percent certain that there will be no money spent on IT in the future. 2) It may not be necessary for Encosta Memories to employ a programmer to design a new system if they purchase the software externally. The design of the software can be done by the suppliers to the companies specifications. Since Encosta Memories does not have any IT experts they can consider outsourcing their IT work. Thus In-house software is not an option because they do not have any IT experts. 3) System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) requires regular reports to top management regarding IT maintenance. For example the security protection, customer related, and its performance etc. Requires regular reporting to top management. Application Service Provider (ASP) the service is provided by the vendor but the user may access it through the internet or the Virtual Private Network, they also provide regular updates and bug fixes. Although the information is provided for the users via the internet, it may still need someone...
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...Encosts Memories Case 1: Encosta Memories 1) a) No, it is not correct. b) The statement is not correct because once a system is acquired. Whether it is internally designed or externally purchased. It still requires regular IT maintenance. Some Examples are IT security, protection from hackers or problems, IT technical support. IT performance includes the ability to reduce downtime, increase storage capacity and so on. IT maintenance requires ongoing costs and that you can not be one hundred percent certain that there will be no money spent on IT in the future. 2) It may not be necessary for Encosta Memories to employ a programmer to design a new system if they purchase the software externally. The design of the software can be done by the suppliers to the companies specifications. Since Encosta Memories does not have any IT experts they can consider outsourcing their IT work. Thus In-house software is not an option because they do not have any IT experts. 3) System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) requires regular reports to top management regarding IT maintenance. For example the security protection, customer related, and its performance etc. Requires regular reporting to top management. Application Service Provider (ASP) the service is provided by the vendor but the user may access it through the internet or the Virtual Private Network, they also provide regular updates and bug fixes. Although the information is provided for the users via the internet, it may still need someone...
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...ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET Please complete ALL sections below. Student I.D Surname Carty____________________________ Intake one First Name _Clive__________________________ Programme HND Buisness Management_____________________________ Module Code Unit One_________________________ Submission Date19/05/2013 _______________________________________ Module Name_ Individual Assignment ___________________________________________________________________________ Assignment Title Business Environment ..................................................................................................................................................... ................................................................................................................................................................................. NOTE 1 THIS ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET NEEDS TO BE COMPLETED AND RETURNED WITH YOUR ASSIGNMENT. FAILURE TO SUBMIT A COMPLETED COVER SHEET WILL RESULT IN YOUR WORK NOT BEING GRADED DECLARATION I have read and understood the London School of Business and Finance (LSBF) Regulations and Policies relating to academic misconduct. I declare that: This submission is entirely my own original piece of work. It has not been submitted for a previous assessment in LSBF or any other institution. Wherever published, unpublished, printed, electronic or other information sources have...
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...which tend to decentralize the local area culture and at the same time it is often seem that organizations of various forms tend to get undermined simply by a new culture if the management practices are not up to date. Such a scenario is true for all forms of organization whether following a democratic culture or class culture in its wake. The management plan of the organization is like the precision map, which tells you which direction to move in and at what time. It also designates the duties to right individual and looks at the aspect of how to achieve both short term and long-term goals in the time frame available with the organization. There is a precision factor of being at the core, while there is definite delegation of work but details on performance and its evaluation at regular intervals is also mentioned. The management plan gives the basis of the philosophy, which governs the working of the organization and helps to create and implement the mission statement (Morgeson, 2010) In this paper, the analysis provided is for a strategic management plan, which will look into the four basic functions of the management plan and will ensure to create an appropriate consultancy plan to help the organization in concern with their management issues. The Outdoor Paint Ball Park is a co-operative venture between Mike, Ethan and Daisy. Brief about the Organization Outdoor Adventure Paint Ball Park is one of the most recent tech savvy adventure...
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...Conducting Business in Germany October 15, 2013 Table of Contents Page Introduction 3 Purpose 3 Management Structure 3 Management Style 4 Communication 4 Presentations 5 Meetings 5 Business Attire 6 Entertaining 6 Twenty Tips for Germany 7, 8 References 9 Introduction Germany is one of the world’s largest economies and has a leading position in manufacturing and production. In Germany, greater attention is paid to academic, technical education and its value to business world. Knowing how to conduct business properly in Germany is an important key to closing a business deal. Purpose The purpose of this brief is provide the company’s businessmen with some basic information on conducting business in Germany. This brief will cover following information: Company Management Structures, Management Style, Communication, Presentations, Meetings, Business Attire, Entertaining and Twenty Tips for Germany. Company Management Structure German companies are very structured and that the majority of the power is in the hands of a few senior managers. In the larger companies they do have boards they have a Supervisory Board called the (Aufsichtsrat) which appoints the Management Board which is called (Vorstand). When it comes to these two boards the management board is the final decision maker on policy dealing with management (World Business...
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...John Updike’s “The First Kiss” uses a great number of rhetorical devices such as monstrous metaphors, dreary to encouraging diction, and descriptive symbolism. These three rhetoric devices help Updike get his theme across that baseball is meant to be fun no matter how demanding it is to the players and the fans throughout the season. Although Updike’s ultimate theme was positive and optimistic, he used a combination of a gloomy and elevating tone to get to his theme. He started off with his gloomy and remorseful tone talking about the previous season and the Red Sox’s late season blunder falling to the Yankees but then he moves onto the fans preparing for the next season and the eagerness that is behind the “Fenway Faithful”. Updike uses words like “unraveling” and phrases like “dreadful days” and “so dank an opening day” to show that the Red Sox will “never get [the fans] to care again and to point out the downheartedness that filled the fans the previous season. However, by the end of the short essay, Updike says “this is fun” and that the sport is filled with “innumerable potential redemptions and curious disappointments”. Then when the two managers shake hands and the “many-headed monster booed furiously” at Zimmer, he just “laughed” and shrugged it off. Then Updike finally comes out to tell the reader the theme that baseball is just a game and no matter how serious it gets, it is meant to be fun. Even when many angry Boston Red Sox fans boo a single person at the start...
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...Around the world, there are many highly skilled, independent thinking professionals who would rather operate a business of their own than work for someone else. These entrepreneurs start up thousands of businesses each year however, not all succeed. Statistics gathered by the National Federation of Independent Businesses reports that only 39% of new businesses in the United States finish the year making a profit. Numerous reasons exist why new businesses fail, but many new business owners find that although they are very competent in their profession, they struggle with operating a business (Klein, 1999). B-Team Consulting can help the new business owner make sure he or she winds up in the 39% group of profitable new businesses. Our firm provides several services to ensure the new business reaches its goals. The firm offers business plan preparation, often the first impression investors have of a business. Marketing analysis services will help a new business with a complete marketing strategy to make the most of its advertising resources. The B-Team Consulting firm can help in website design and promotion to ensure optimal Internet exposure. These are a sampling of many services B-Team Consulting can offer (Williams, 2011). Problems the Firm Can Remedy Many small businesses face declining sales and fewer repeat customers after expansion. The owner of the small business finds that once the business expands beyond the initial workforce, there is a drop in repeat customers. When...
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...- TITLE - AIMS - FUNCTIONS - CORRESPONDENCE Title An investigation into the types of equipment used in the sales department of Courts Jamaica Limited, Santa Cruz Branch. Aims The aims of the study are to: ✓ Determine various types of equipment used in the Sales Department ✓ Determine the extent to which the provision of proper equipment enhances productivity in the Sales Department. Functions The functions of the Sales Department are: ✓ To maintain sales records ✓ To follow up with customer (after sales service) ✓ To liaise with other departments ✓ To monitor stock control Permission Letter Seven Corners Heights Leeds P.O. St. Elizabeth October 15, 2012 The Sales Manager Courts Jamaica Limited 24 Main Street Santa Cruz St. Elizabeth Dear Sir/Madam, I am a student at School of Excellence - Santa Cruz and I will be sitting Office Administration at the CSEC level in June 2013. The Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) requires a School Based Assessment (SBA) for that particular subject and the project is entitled, “An investigation into the Types of Equipment used in the Sales Department.” I am kindly asking for your permission to carry out this research at your organization. It will consist of an interview, questionnaires and an observation. All information will be kept strictly confidential and only be used for the intended purpose. You may contact me at 1876 390 0185 with...
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