BUILDING CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY Task-1 1.1 Explain the quality control testing before you allow starting the concreting work for the foundation‚ columns‚ slab and beams. There are two main tests to be done on concrete The slump test: the slump test shows the workability of concrete. The compression test: the compression test shows the best possible strength Concrete can reach in perfect conditions. Testing should always be done carefully. Wrong test results can be costly. SAMPLING The first step
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Teaching and learning : The effective teaching of grammar in modern foreign languages (MFL) ’One of the most misunderstood words in the English language has to be the word ‘grammar’ ’(Rendall‚ 2006: 53). This statement stands as the ideal starting point from which to unveil a rationale for the importance of grammar in the language acquisition process and how it has been perceived in the past decades . What is grammar ? Why and how should it be taught ? These questions‚ as basic as they look
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CoNSTRUtTiON PPE PPE: Helping Protect Empleyees frem Construction jobsites can be dangerous places to work. There often are many activities going on at the same time‚ with various trades working side by side. Work can be done below-grade in excavations‚ above-grade on scaffolding and in scissor hfts and on the ground with forklifts and other heavy equipment. BY MARK STROMMr A ll of the activity above‚ below and on the ground at a construction worksite can create hazards for your employees and
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Comprehensive Project Proposal Regression Application toward Better Management of Construction Project Budgets Objective This project plans to develop a methodology to estimate future projects’ costs and their appropriate contingency reserves for changing prices in constructional projects. Based on the methodology‚ recommendations will be given in order to change Ministry of Construction’s policies that relates to project budgets‚ and how to deal with the current policies if they are not
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Human Relations DOI: 10.1177/0018726705061314 Volume 58(11): 1467–1494 Copyright © 2005 The Tavistock Institute ® SAGE Publications London‚Thousand Oaks CA‚ New Delhi www.sagepublications.com Problems‚ problems‚ problems:The social construction of ‘leadership’ Keith Grint The invasion of Iraq was premised upon accounts of the situation that have proved unsustainable‚ but that has not generated a change in the strategy of the coalition forces. Conventional contingency accounts of leadership suggest
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Social Construction Theory “As we thought Social Construction Theory is worried with the ways we consider and utilize classifications to structure our experience and investigation of the world” Social constructions characterize implications‚ thoughts‚ or intentions that are allocated to questions and occasions in the earth and to individuals’ ideas of their connections and communications with these items. In the space of social constructionist thought‚ a social build is a thought or idea that gives
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Construction & Quality Control of Flexible Pavements BITUMINOUS PAVEMENT CONSTRUCTION Bituminous construction are classified into four categories • Interface Treatments • Thin Bituminous surface Courses • Bituminous Surface Courses • Bituminous Binder Courses INTERFACE TREATMENTS Prime Coat Tack Coat Crack Prevention Courses SAM and SAMI Purpose Of Priming: To plug the capillary voids To coat and bond loose materials on the surface To harden or toughen the surface To
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The Social Construction of Gender It is obvious boys and girls are different from the moment they are born. They have both genetic and biological differences‚ they are born a certain sex‚ either male or female (or sometimes a combination of both). Of course there are other differences between a boy and a girl but what are the influences? Are all the differences from the moment they are born or are there other factors that make us into who we are‚ into what gender we are. Sex is something you are
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to claim multiple ethnic affiliations. - You have no control over your race; it’s how you’re perceived by others. E.g Chinese growing up Australian could claim to be ethnically Australian however her race is still Chinese. Social construction - A social construction or social construct is any phenomenon "invented" or "constructed" by participants in a particular culture or society‚ existing because people agree to behave as if it exists or follow certain conventional rules. One example of a social
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language and its grammar were developed in the linguistics of the 20th century after the publication of the works by Beaudoin de Courtenay and Ferdinand de Saussure (they demonstrated the difference between lingual synchrony and diachrony). The 1st characteristic feature of Grammar is its abstract character (it abstracts itself from particular & concrete and builds its rules & laws‚ taking into consideration only common features of groups and words). The 2nd characteristic feature of Grammar is stability
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