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    contrast‚ are not. Construction period in each city is different. In Seattle the Construction period might take up to 3 months; however‚ in Riyadh might take up to 1.5 year and that duo to the building materials. Unlike Riyadh‚ building a house in Seattle is easy. The reason way building a house in Riyadh harder than Seattle because the materials that use to build are different. In Seattle the materials are easy to get and to process. On the other hand‚ in Riyadh the materials

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    In building construction and in fire prevention there are organizations that have created a useful system on how to determine what type of building falls under which category. The ICC (International Code Council) and the NFPA (National Fire Protection Association) create these building codes for the safety of firefighters. The two most commonly known standards for building classifications are the NFPA 5000 and also the International Building Code (IBC). The two are very similar‚ however‚ they different

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    Engineering Ethics

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    Engineering Ethics: Do engineers owe duties to the public? John Uff CBE QC FREng Nash Professor of Engineering Law‚ Kings College‚ London Engineering Ethics: Do engineers owe duties to the public? John Uff CBE QC FREng Nash Professor of Engineering Law‚ Kings College‚ London Contents Introduction Codes of Conduct and the Institutions Legislation governing safety and environment Duties arising in contract Limits on enforceability Duties arising in tort Ethical duties recognised by the law

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    Industrial Engineering [pic] Brandon Mendez B-day POE 2/09/1 Table of contents Topic Page Abstract 1 Field Description 2-4 Field Stats

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    ENGINEERING ETHICS Dr. Moustafa A. Chaaban Egyptian Society of Mechanical Engineers Professor‚ Ain Shams University‚ Faculty of Engineering Cairo‚ Egypt Contents Introduction What does word Ethic mean? Elements of Engineering Ethics In Engineering Profession Engineer relation with public Engineer relation with client and staff Relation between engineers Introduction Several meetings of Engineering Syndicate in the world had already taken place in order to put forward Engineering Ethics

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    Buildings are products of the imagination‚ that is what connects us to them. Some go further than that and become just a romantic obsession. Throughout time we have begun to modify the landscape in which surround us‚ This leading us to create large industrial cities with many buildings of disuse. As time passes buildings are being left derelict due to many factors such as dying trades‚ for example‚ coal and mining villages. Buildings to this day have been changed and modified and have housed so many

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    Question1 The type of foundation used to support a building is dependent on the type of in-situ soil‚ the bearing pressure of that soil and the loads imposed by the structure on the soil. The Building regulations state that the minimum depth to the underside of a strip found is 0.45 for frost protection and this should be extended to 0.75 in clay soils‚ largely due to the water retention in these materials ( Osbourn and Greeno 2007). This depth is also required to protect the foundation from seasonal

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    Engineering and Metaphor

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    it. Metaphors put a twist in daily language in that they are a unique way of describing a concept. There are common metaphors that we use everyday and not so common ones which are used specifically in some kind of field for example engineering. Since engineers usually work as a team to accomplish a goal‚ they use metaphors to communicate with each other exclusively. Metaphors everyday There are thousands of metaphors that are used almost unconsciously every day. They

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    Engineering Design

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    1. Engineering design generally involves five steps : developing a statement of the problem and/or a set of specifications‚ gathering information pertinent to the problem‚ designing several alternatives that meet the specifications‚ analyzing the alternatives and selecting the best one‚ and testing and implementing the best design. Discuss how is ethical problem solving shares similar attributes with engineering design. Ethical problem solving shares similar attributes with engineering design

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    Virtues in Engineering

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    Virtues in Engineering William F. May said of the expert: “He had better be virtuous. Few may be in a position to discredit him. The knowledge explosion is also an ignorance explosion; if knowledge is power‚ then ignorance is powerlessness” (Harris 30). In the context of engineering‚ this places engineers in a very special position. Because of this power‚ which few may ever possess‚ it becomes necessary for engineers to be virtuous or posses certain attributes for the welfare of the public

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