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    No.4 Topic: Construction Materials Language Skills: Word Formation BUILDING STYLES AND MATERIALS Houses and public buildings in Britain and the US have been built in a range of styles and materials. Old and new stand side by side. In Britain there are timber-framed houses‚ buildings of brick or stone‚ and modern concrete and glass structures. Many US architectural styles came originally from Europe. The South-west has many buildings in the Spanish colonial or

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    property‚ 1.8m to another building that isn’t a class 10 building‚ or 3m from a brush fence? 2. If so‚ these walls must have a non-combustible roof lining and eve lining. 3.Windows in these walls must be non-operable fire windows (exceptions for bathroom toilet or laundry windows with an area smaller than 1.2m2 4.Doors must be self closing and solid core not less than 35mm 5. Are there any encroachments between the structure and 900mm of the site boundary or 1.8m of other buildings in the same allotment

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    facilitating the creation of new materials with which to build. These new materials freed the architect from engineering limitations of the past and allowed for new rational designs based on a buildingÕs function. But most importantly‚ these designs were given form by a new optimistic ideal - that rational design would make for a rational society. Technology transformed architecture into a tool for social and cultural reform. The industrial revolution gave three new materials to the architect of the 20th

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    | Introduction The term Diagrid is a portmanteau of ‘diagonal grid’ and is a technique typically used for constructing large steel buildings by creating external triangular structures with horizontal support rings. The diagonal members intersect each other and the horizontal rings at a single node. The members combine to create an element similar to a moment frame. In a Diagrid structure‚ gravity and lateral loads are resisted by all of the members‚ creating efficiency and large amounts of structural

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    Source: IS PARAGRAPH-WWW http://online.prg.kz INTERSTATE CONSTRUCTION NORMS   MSN 3.02-03-2002   Buildings and Premises for Institutions and Organisations     Contents   Introduction 1 Scope 2 Codes and standards 3 Terms and definitions 4 General 5 Requirements to premises 6 Fire safety 7 Safety in use 8 Compliance with sanitary and epidemiological requirements 9 Energy conservation 10 Durability and maintainability Appendix А (mandatory). References Appendix B (mandatory)

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    Title: Critical Review of “ A Building LCA Case Study Using Autodesk Ecotect and BIM Model” Summary: The main objective of the paper was to prove that the BIM (Building Information Model) integrated with other software for energy analysis and CO2 emissions of buildings could lead to a comprehensive and successful LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) study. The authors claimed that using BIM would save much time and effort when conducting LCA studies. They also addressed a research question of how the

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    of Fernando Menis in the article ‘Megalith circle in the desert’‚ starting on page 14. Every building is inextricably intertwined with the site where it is located. The section will follow the topography of the terrain‚ and the ground plan will be suitably aligned to the natural light. But what is more important is that the location also influences the choice of materials‚ the appearance of a building and the actual texture it finally possesses. If an architect takes these factors into account in

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    work. Engineers and architects are experimenting different types of materials and designs in various archetecture projects to get a unique and astonishing outlook as well as to build an environemental friendly structures and many of them have not dissopinted the audience. Whether it is a highrise building or a limited sized‚ it has got its aown notable styles and features and are built with some special and different types of materials. One of these amazing construction is the newly built "Library of

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    Maragatham‚ and Leong‚ 2013). Malaysia’s energy sources primarily comprise oil‚ natural gas‚ hydro power and coal‚ although renewable energy (RE) sources such as solar power and biomass are currently being exploited (Poh and Kong‚ 2002) Fuel is any materials that store potential energy in forms that can be practicably released and used as heat energy. All transportation and machinery require fuels to function such as trucks‚ crane‚ etc. The primary energy demand is highly dependent upon the price of

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    in many aspects of its form. Shape is a major aspect of form that was used to honor the previous towers. The base of the Freedom Tower is of the same dimensions and shape as the previous towers‚ 200ft by 200ft square base. The first 200ft of the building is identical in shape

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