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    National Building Code

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    REGULATIONS of the NATIONAL BUILDING CODE Slide 2 RULE 1‚ Sec. 103. Scope and Application ___________________________________________________________ 1. The scope of this IRR shall cover the following disciplines: architectural‚ civil/structural‚ electrical‚ mechanical‚ sanitary‚ plumbing and electronics. Slide 3 RULE III‚ Sec. 301 Building Permits ___________________________________________________________ 2. Permits supplementary to a Building Permit shall be applied for and

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    Safety Construction Practices A construction site of any type can be a very dangerous environment if safety rules are not followed. An employee who is injured on the work site will draw worker’s compensation and drive the rates up for his employer‚ not to mention having a lower income while recovering. This also puts pressure on the other workers to complete a job with one less employee‚ and the same pressure is conveyed to the company in order to reach completion deadlines. Accidents in the construction

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    The Empire State Building

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    Empire State Building The Empire State Building Outline THESIS STATEMENT: The Empire State Building did not cause much trouble for New York; instead‚ its construction had many positive effects. Reasons for the Building I. Raskob wanted to make money by renting offices to tenants. A. He wanted to construct a building that offered him the largest number of offices at the lowest price. B. He didn’t care for innovation and style ‚ but he wanted a building that sticks with his budget

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    KMC Building Rule

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    General 3 Prohibition of building without permit 12 Chapter III Procedure for Sanction 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Notice for erection or alteration of a building Key (Location) Plan Site Plan Building Plan Sizes of drawing sheets Colouring notation for plans Dimensions Specifications Requisition to determine validity of notice Sanction or provisional sanction or refusal of building or work Aesthetic quality of urban environmental design Building Permit Grounds for refusal

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    Fire Fighting

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    Chemistry of Fire and Firefighting Firefighting in the early 1700’s differed from the ways that we fight fires today. In the past‚ man-kind didn’t know the chemistry of fire and the different kinds of fire that ignite. Technology has improved a lot from the 1700’s. When technology improved‚ so did the techniques of fighting fires. Firefighters have learned that fires can start from something as simple as a frayed wire and can start from something as complex as a lightning bolt. Technology

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    Fire Extinguishers.

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    Fire extinguishers seem to be an interesting & useful topic to learn about. It may help us in the future for our own safety. I chose this topic mainly because of my own interest to learn about these valuable lessons in life. There are many aspects of fire extinguishers to be known about. I know there are people‚ who think dealing with the device can’t get easier‚ but there are many things they don’t know about since they haven’t experienced much of it in life‚ & in my opinion‚ they should still be

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    House in Fire

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    house on fire One day‚ I was studying at home. Suddenly there was a loud noise. I came out of my house to know what had happened in the neighborhood. What I saw‚ I could not stop my scream. A house in my neighborhood had caught fire; people from the neighboring areas were rushing towards the house. They were pouring buckets of water to extinguish fire. Many people were throwing sands and dust over the fire. A few people were trying to control fire by throwing blankets on it. But the fire was ravaging

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    Triangle Fire

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    Lets Head Out The Fire Escape!... What Fire Escape? Once upon a time‚ in an age of laissez-faire‚ there erupted a horrible fire in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. Usually fires aren’t as a big of a deal in comparison to other natural disasters such as earthquakes. But when the number of deaths pass 100 from a fire‚ something must be wrong in that picture. Statistically‚ fires have only had a few deaths as total and a number of people who are injured. But during this time‚ reality hit

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    To Build a Fire

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    How does "To Build a Fire" illustrate the elements of naturalistic literature? Paragraph 1: Introduction--what is Naturalism? brief overview of short story‚ thesis statement (connection between Naturalism and story) Paragraph 2: State the first element of Naturalism as outlined in web inquiry: Characters whose attempts to control their own lives are usually thwarted by outside forces. Give a few examples of how the character in To Build a Fire fits this description. Paragraph 3: Second

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    Forest Fires

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    FOREST FIRES A forestfire is any uncontrolled fire in combustible vegetation that occurs in the countryside or a wilderness area.[1][2] Other names such as brush fire‚ bushfire‚ forest fire‚ grass fire‚ hill fire‚ peat fire‚ vegetation fire‚ veldfire‚ and wildland fire may be used to describe the same phenomenon depending on the type of vegetation being burned. A wildfire differs from other fires by its extensive size‚ the speed at which it can spread out from its original source‚ its potential to

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