BASE ISOLATED BUILDINGS What is base isolation? When a building is built away (isolated) from the ground‚ resting on flexible bearings or pads known as base isolators. It is of the most popular means of protecting a structure against earthquake forces. HISTORY The first evidence of architects using the principle of base isolation for earthquake protection was discovered in Pasargadae. One of the world’s first base-isolated structures – the William Clayton building Base Isolation
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How a Step for Today can Create a Life for Tomorrow By Zarleen Gem S. Regis Every day I sit down to watch the news. Every day I see accidents together with its after effects of lives lost and mourning families. Every day‚ stories that would really get my heart shed tears concerns that of children—rightfully entitled for care and unconditional love‚ but rather have gone through abuse and neglect. No child is ever suited to receive an act of omission by parents‚ failing to act as their own children’s
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Team Building Team building is very important for many reasons and there are certain things that a team must have to work efficiently. A team is a group of people that have common goals and work together effectively to achieve them. There is a difference between a team and a group. A group is a number of people or things that are located close together or are considered to be together‚ and may also share certain beliefs. Workplaces‚ schools and hospitals are some of the places where teams are
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BSE1D03 Intelligent Building and Associated Fire Safety Fire Safety in Buildings Professor Walter W. Yuen Chair Professor in Thermal Sciences and Engineering Professor W. K. Chow Department Head and Director‚ Research Centre for Fire Engineering Department of Building Service Engineering The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong‚ China BSE1D03 1 Topics covered in this talk: 1. Introduction. 2. The Risk of a Building Fire (Why do we care ?) 3. The “making” of a Building Fire 4. The Physics
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development and quality of life. Construction activity accounts for more than 50% of the national outlays. Building Construction costs registered an increase in rates year after year at scales much faster than inflation. It is seen that in view of the increase in cost for basic input materials like steel‚ cement brick timber and other materials as well as the cost of construction labour‚ buildings cost increase at around 20% to 30% annually even when inflation is in single digit. Even though income
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| |Before he was six years old his mother died‚ and the doubly orphaned Muhammad was put under the charge of his grandfather Abdul | |Muttalib who took the most tender care of him. But the old chief died two years afterwards. On his deathbed he confided to his | |son Abu Talib the charge of the little orphan. | |When Muhammad was twelve years old‚ he accompanied his uncle Abu Talib on a mercantile
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Keyword: pop up camper roof rebuild Length: 1000 words Type: How to How to Do a Pop Up Camper Roof Rebuild Camping is one of the best activities anyone can do‚ may it be with family‚ friends‚ workmates‚ or even alone. What makes it great is how you can also camp with your car‚ as there are now pop up campers that can be installed to your pickup truck or RV‚ making it a more comfortable way to camp. But sometimes‚ the roof may end up being faulty‚ eventually breaking. If that’s the case‚ then
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Building Services Student’s name : Programme : BUILDING SERVICES ENGINEERING Unit title / Level: HEALTH‚ SAFETY and WELFARE / QCF LEVEL 3 / UNIT 1 Assignment title / number : Undertaking Risk Assessments/ Assignment 2 Date set : 17/12/12 Assignment deadline : 11/2/13 Lecturer : C Thornton Note : Assignment will not be accepted without this front cover
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Kaizen and Team Building EMM 2509 Module leader : PROF. B S AJIT KUMAR M.S Ramaiah School of Advanced Studies - Bangalore PEMP EMM2509 Module S M d l Summary/Overview /O i • Ai d at Working and Potential Managers. Aimed ki d i l • Helps them to know and take actions towards Continuous Improvement and Team Working . C ti I t d T W ki • Helps to identify opportunities and to use tools to achieve this Goal. Goal • Goal should be achieved through team working. • T Team Working leads to better
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1.1.1 Journal: Building Suspense Journal English 9 (S2655615) Points possible: 10 Date: ____________ Think of the last suspenseful movie you watched — one that made you feel nervous about what might happen to the characters. Can you remember how the movie created that suspense? Think about the music‚ the lighting‚ the camera angles‚ and how quickly or slowly the plot moved along. Write at least half a page reflecting on how the movie built that suspense. Read the
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