...A. Building Code- are rules that must be followed when constructing buildings and nonbuilding structures. Building codes are also guidelines for design, constructing, alteration, and maintenance of constructions. We have building codes to provide us with safe buildings. Building code are made to protect our personal safety and health. Fire alarms code, some of the requirements I think are reasonable is having smoke detector in every bedroom, every floor in the house even basements and attics should have smoke alarms. Because, it is necessary for our safety and let us know about a fire in the house. The unreasonable requirements is having to replace the entire alarm if your batteries fail, because that would cost us a lot of money to replace every single alarm. Another requirement, which is unreasonable is that the units must be wired together so all of the alarms go off at the same time. Because, we will not be able to figure out where is the smoke or fire. Also, one alarms is loud enough to let everyone know that there is a fire in the house. B. Building Permit- is a permit or documents that is required for new construction or if you want to renew old construction....
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...ATMC Shopping Centre This is the project plan for the construction of public utility building herein referred as ATMC Shopping Centre. This pan provides the information about every detail of the project. This is the property of ATMC, ATMC Shopping Centre This is the project plan for the construction of public utility building herein referred as ATMC Shopping Centre. This pan provides the information about every detail of the project. This is the property of ATMC, Project Plan Project Plan ATMC Shopping Mall Project Plan Presented by: Gurpreet Singh On behalf of: ATMC Project Plan - ATMC Shopping Centre Introduction: ATMC has recently approved the construction of ATMC Shopping Centre in Richmond area as it’s trying to expand its business. This project will provide the residents of Richmond an easy and quick access to various shops and supermarket. As the residents have to dry a long way to go to a shopping mall or a super market. The ATMC will also increase the employment opportunities for local residents and residents from the nearby areas. The Shopping Centre will 50 specialty shops like clothes, kid’s toys and clothes, Gift shops etc. and 3 super markets with a parking space for 2000 cars. The allocated time for the project is 2 years and budget is $100million. ATMC is a very successful education provider in Melbourne and Sydney because of its promise to provide the best education and pathway to its students to higher education studies. We...
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...Constructing Change: Energy Efficiency and India’s Buildings Sector “The urban sprawl is creating unique challenges and opportunities related to natural ecosystems. As a result, policy makers need to think innovatively about a range of issues from land-resource planning to broader ecological and energy implications. The resulting challenges include reducing pollution, increasing biodiversity, managing peak energy demand and cost, heat-stress health implications, and ensuring an adequate supply of water and nutrients.” Radhika Khosla February 21, 2012 In 2008, for the first time ever, the urban population of the world outnumbered that of the rural. This visible trend has escalated over the last couple of decades; projections suggest that by the end of the twenty-first century, 80 percent of the world’s population will live in cities (which occupy 0.05 percent of the Earth’s surface). Rapid urbanization is creating vast opportunities through an unprecedented demand for the construction of buildings, which already account for more than 30 percent of India’s total electricity consumption. In line with expanding development, the country’s buildings sector is expected to increase five-fold from 2005 to 2050. India is at a unique crossroads where two-thirds of the commercial and high-rise residential structures that will exist in 2030 are yet to be built. Implementing energy efficiency in buildings that are being constructed in the next ten years thus presents a singular...
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...and Chile. An earthquake, measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale, rocked Haiti on January 12, 2010, knocking down buildings and power lines and killing over 200,000 people. While the earthquake that devastated Chile, measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale on February 27 was 500 times more powerful; yet the death toll is magnitudes lower. There is the dominant approach which has examined the role of poverty in deepening the effects of natural disasters. Poverty is what ultimately kills most people during an earthquake. Poverty means that little or no evaluation is made of seismic risk in constructing buildings and no zoning takes place. It means that building codes are not written, and even if they do exist they are difficult, or impossible, to enforce. It means the choice between building robustly or building cheaply is not a choice at all (Stark 2010). Similarly, other studies stressed the costs in terms of lives, people’s disability and injuries and livelihoods affecting by the results of earthquake. They all agreed that the impacts are enormous and they are unequally distributed, with the poor and most vulnerable carrying most of the burden of the costs. Haiti is, by a significant margin, the poorest in the Western Hemisphere, with four out of five people living in poverty and more than half in abject poverty. Unfortunately, those poor people can't afford to "build to code." The earthquake and the loss of life and destruction that resulted are related to the lack of political and...
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...with the quality of the construction, and wound not charge too much to do so. The Specht’s chose the company Structures Design/Build to be their builders for their house. While meeting with their consultant for the first time, the consultant, Adam Cohen, asked the couple if they had any interest in Passiyhaus. The Specht’s did not know what Passiyhaus was and assumed that energy efficiency was too expensive for them. Cohen believed that if they were to create an optimized Passiyhaus design, that they could achieve the cost parity with a traditional construction. He argued that by constructing a Passiyhaus, it would not be any more expensive than constructing a house that would meet the existing energy codes. The articile states that “it is the idea that a builder can leverage their knowledge and experience to produce a Passiyhaus at a price equal to standard construction, if the energy costs are included in the calculation.” It also states that the additional costs of the Passiyhaus construction ends up paying for itself through the savings in the monthly utility bill. The Spechts’ agreed on the idea of designing a Passiyhaus. As the building process began, The Specht’s continued with their research on the Passiyhaus design. They found that the Passiyhaus projects often used new materials and techniques. Jason Specht talked to a loan officer at a local bank, and the building plans were appraised at a value that ended up being equal to the construction contract price. This confirmed...
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...1)What does the study of humanities involve? What is the relevance of humanities in architecture? 1.The study of humanities involves academic disciplines that study human culture and history. The humanities include ancient and modern languages ,literature, philosophy, religion, and visual and performing arts such as music and theatre. We learn about distant cultures or past cultures. Through the exploration of humanities we learn how to think creatively and critically to reason and ask questions. These efforts preserve the great accomplishments of the past help us understand the world we live in and give us tools to imagine the future. 2.What are the broad divisions of human history? Write a brief on each. Prehistory (meaning "before history", or "before knowledge acquired by investigation", from the Latin word for "before," præ, and historia) is the span of time before recorded history or the invention of writing systems. Prehistory refers to the period of human existence before the availability of those written records with which recorded history begins. More broadly, it can refer to all the time preceding human existence and the invention. The term "prehistory" can refer to the vast span of time since the beginning of the Universe, but more often it refers to the period since life appeared on Earth, or even more specifically to the time since human-like beings appeared.[4][5] In dividing up human prehistory, prehistorians typically use the three-age system, whereas scholars...
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...blew up and this was scattered all around the globe damaging Primark’s valuable reputation by the minute. Eventually after some persuasion by petitions and government demands the company said they would compensate. ‘‘ The British retailer has agreed to pay $9m to the 581 workers, or their families, from New Wave Bottoms, Primark's supplier, which was based on the second floor of the building in Dhaka. A further $1m will go into a communal compensation pot to be shared among all the 3,600 workers who suffered when the eighth-floor Rana Plaza complex collapsed in April last year’’. This shows that company demonstrated that they took some social responsibility for the community that got terribly damaged, it also showed that the company wanted to improve their community and try and amend for what happened for the families. The company has also compensated by offering the community health care schemes that would include volunteers donating their time and resources people who have concerns with their health but may not have the means to go see a doctor, they are providing necessities like food and water and they are also constructing a brand new factory with a new full ensured structure, it was also said that ‘prior workers have immediately got placement’. This proved to reinvent their reputation because they have taken huge...
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...General Carpentry What would this world do without a carpenter? This world wouldn’t have any building if it wasn’t for the carpenters. The carpenters build the schools, businesses, houses, prisons, etc. What is carpentry? Carpentry is the craft of taking wood to construct and maintain buildings, furniture, and any other objects. In carpentry a carpenter must have numerous requirements to become one. A carpenter has many different job duties, work conditions, and pay wages. In the art of carpentry there is many different types and groups that someone could become and follow their dream of becoming a carpenter. To become a carpenter one must meet many different requirements. A person must have a high school diploma or something equivalent...
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...to improve the quality of data. However, in the view of the experience summary and practice accumulation in the practical application, the paper mainly focuses on the ETL dispatcher and way of check to improve data quality of data warehouse. First of all, the automation of data management which is realized by ETL principle make the data into a data stream., the database where the data exists become as starting point of ETL, saving the data warehouse with ultimate high-quality data as the end of ETL. Second, for the data which the ETL data flow has been formed to generate example, for the data which complete ETL processes structure to handling historical information, thus ensuring that the ETL flow can monitoring. Third, building the processing logic of ETL tectonic processes, is the core of constructing high-quality data, constructing the automated calibration procedures based on the actual experience , so that the calibration procedures can correct erroneous data when passing by, and finally achieving the goal of access the high-quality data. Finally, the implementation of the EMC project has proved that the illegal data in the form of ETL run through calibration procedures can be handled in accordance with the set in advance , ensuring the...
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...up in our daily conversations. One major item of discussion is typically “going green”. The Monolithic Dome offers natural disaster resistance, physical damage resistance from insects and rodents, mold resistance, degradation resistance, all while offering the most economical, green energy efficient building available. Monolithic Domes the Green Wave of the Future The Monolithic Dome originally started out as a dream for Davis South who with his two brothers, Randy and Barry, researched, planned and built the first monolithic dome. David South had heard Buckminster Fuller talking about geodesic domes on the radio in 1956. David immediately thought I can do better. Geodesic domes are made from triangle wooden structure forms places together to form the structure of the dome in which the outer structure is then lain. David South researched this type of structure and became fascinated with it. After much discussion with his brothers Randy and Barry, the South brothers started trying to develop a stronger more reliable dome. After several years of research and numerous trials and errors the South Brothers came up with a process they used to develop the first Monolithic Dome structure. In order to prove the soundness and structural integrity of the first Monolithic dome the brothers built a potato storage facility in Shelly, Idaho in 1975. The Monolithic Dome construction process includes: 1) pouring a ring foundation floor and attaching rebar steel reinforcements throughout the...
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...architecture and civil engineering, construction is a process that consists of the building or assembling of infrastructure. Far from being a single activity, large scale construction is a feat of human multitasking. Normally, the job is managed by a project manager, and supervised by a construction manager, design engineer, construction engineer or project architect. For the successful execution of a project, effective planning is essential. Involved with the design and execution of the infrastructure in question must consider the environmental impact of the job, the successful scheduling, budgeting, construction site safety, availability ofbuilding materials, logistics, inconvenience to the public caused by construction delays and bidding, etc. Types of construction projects In general, there are four types of construction: 1. Residential Building construction 2. Industrial construction 3. Commercial Building construction 4. Heavy Civil construction Each type of construction project requires a unique team to plan, design, construct and maintain the project. Building construction Building construction is the process of adding structure to real property. The vast majority of building construction jobs are small renovations, such as addition of a room, or renovation of a bathroom. Often, the owner of the property acts as laborer, paymaster, and design team for the entire project. However, all building construction projects include some elements in common – design, financial,...
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...ETM 500 Seminar II New Technologies in Civil Engineering and Forensic Consepts of Engineering by Hüseyin Cimşit Graduate Program in Engineering and Technology Mangement Bogazi¸ i University c 2012 Name Surname: ID: Approved by: Prof. Name Surname: Date of Approvel: Alper Kırdal 2011712393 Sabri Altıntaş ABSTRACT This is report is written corresponding to the seminar given by Hüseyin Cimşit in March, 03 2012. The seminar was about the new techologies in civil engineering and the forensic issues in engineering that should be known. The speaker also has given examples about some interesting forensic cases related with civil engineering area which provided a clear point of view about the issue. TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT .......................................................................................................... 2 1. INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................... 4 2. CIVIL ENGINEERING DEVELOPMENTS ................................................. 4 a. Coastal engineering...................................................................................... 4 b. Construction Engineering ............................................................................ 4 c. Earthquake Engineering ............................................................................... 5 d. Environmental Engineering ......................................................................... 5 e. Geotechnical...
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...1.0 Introduction A grading system plays a key role in the management system of any school. But, such system does not often relate expectations, outcomes, and performance. As each student desires to achieve a good score for each assignment, exam, project and/or report, the whole process adds heavy workload for professors in order to make their evaluation fair, comprehensive, and accurate. Form the department perspective, these are necessary to avoid disagreement from students and parents. Grades monitoring system is a highly desirable addition to the educational tool-kit, particularly when it can provide less effort and a more effective and timely outcome. Grades monitoring systems are designed to provide incentives for achievement and assist in identifying problem areas of a student. It is the most commonly used means of analyzing student performance, talents and skills. Students` grades are vital information needed in advancing to the next year level and its accuracy is very important. In remote areas, still utilize the manual method of recording and computing for the grades of the students. The proponents of this study wish to reduce the workload of professors by eliminating the need for manual computation and recording of each grade. As the workload gradually increases with growing amounts of grades and student lists that need to be attended, it becomes tedious on the part of the professor to proficiently manage them in time for documentation and file submission to the department...
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...rCivil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works such as bridges, roads, canals, dams and buildings.[1][2][3] Civil engineering is the oldest engineering discipline after military engineering,[4] and it was defined to distinguish non-military engineering from military engineering.[5] It is traditionally broken into several sub-disciplines including environmental engineering,geotechnical engineering, structural engineering, transportation engineering, municipal or urban engineering, water resources engineering, materials engineering, coastal engineering,[4] surveying, and construction engineering.[6] Civil engineering takes place on all levels: in the public sector from municipal through to federal levels, and in the private sector from individual homeowners through to international companies. ------------------------------------------------- History of the civil engineering profession Engineering has been an aspect of life since the beginnings of human existence. The earliest practices of Civil engineering may have commenced between 4000 and 2000 BC in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia (Ancient Iraq) when humans started to abandon a nomadic existence, thus causing a need for the construction of shelter. During this time, transportation became increasingly important leading to the development of the wheel and sailing. Until modern times there was...
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...physical network solutions based on appropriate capacity planning and implementing various installations, testing and troubleshooting techniques for a computer network. MAJOR INSTRUCTIONAL AREAS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Telecommunications Cabling Specifications and Constraints Cabling Tools and Media Network Equipment for Wired and Wireless Networks Cable Testing Fiber Optics and Light Principles Fiber-Optic Cables, Splicing and Connectors Fiber-Optic Light Sources, Detectors and Receivers Fiber-Optic Considerations and Testing COURSE OBJECTIVES 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Distinguish between bandwidth, frequency, and data rate in a data network Explain the importance of codes, standards, and specifications. Compare and contrast network topologies Describe the characteristics of different copper cables Explain the purpose of network tools Compare and contrast fiber-optic and copper transmission Differentiate between twisted-pair cable connectors, coaxial cable connectors, and fiber-optic cable connectors Construct a network based on specifications using repeaters, hubs, bridges, switches, servers, and routers Demonstrate how to...
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