Research notes for Geography final assignment: List of major earthquakes in Haiti • 1751 Port-au-Prince earthquake (18 October): According to French historian Moreau de Saint-Méry‚ "only one masonry building had not collapsed" in Port-au-Prince‚ Haiti’s capital city. • 1770 Port-au-Prince earthquake (3 June): The city was leveled in this magnitude 7.5 quake‚ which killed over 200 people. • 1783: A strong quake partially destroyed the church in Santiago.[1] • 1842 Cap-Haitien earthquake
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beauty of design. Civil Engineers study the four factors of building structures to determine which tools and materials they will use in order to build permanent structures. Although engineers studying the factors and take the determination‚ there is some disasters occurred in many places because of many reasons. Nick Spurrier said “There will always be failures or disasters as engineers and designers push the boundaries by building taller buildings‚ longer bridges‚ or by reaching further into space”. In
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Understand and realize the need building structures To give a general idea on how the process of building engaging a site and the understanding of substructure‚ superstructure and primary elements. THE IDEA OF A BUILDING ENGAGING A SITE of INTRODUCTION : The Building We build building because we need shelter from the element that are beyond our control Hot Cold Danger Others ………. INTRODUCTION : The Building Why do people need proper buildings? Not equipped
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Factory building is a factor which should receive serious considerations on the part of the management of every industrial enterprise‚ new or old‚ big or small. Once the plant location is decided upon‚ the management’s next important task is to raise a suitable buildings for the plant. A modern factory building is much more than a mere work-shed. It is required to provide protection for men‚ machines‚ materials‚ products or even the company’s secrets. It has to serve as a part of the production
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improvement in overall productivity of the system and that assumed to mean reduction in the cost of production • • The type of productivity measures that involve physical units of output and physical units of resource inputs‚ such as quantity of materials as inputs and quantity of units as output‚ are partial productivity measures and improvements shown in terms of partial productivity measures may not translate in terms of reduction in the cost of production The possible reason for not using cost
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Seismic Conceptual Design of Buildings – Basic principles for engineers‚ architects‚ building owners‚ and authorities Hugo Bachmann Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Federal Department of the Environment‚ Transport‚ Energy and Communications (DETEC) Seismic Conceptual Design of Buildings – Basic principles for engineers‚ architects‚ building owners‚ and authorities Hugo Bachmann Impressum Editor: Quoting: Swiss Federal Office for Water and Geology Swiss Agency for Development
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that the building was to be founded on was challenging‚ as it was a very steeply sloping site. This building is said to be "designed to exploit classic Cornish views of wooden valleys‚ a creek with bobbing boats and‚ to the south‚ the broad sweep of the Fal estuary"(Dobney‚ 1997‚ p.20). The building is called the Creek Vean House and the design and completion lasted from 1964 to 1966. Concept sketch by Norman Foster Sectional Perspective showing the sloped site. The materials that have
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look at that particular art. Every art or craft is not creative for us or for everyone. When we say something is creative we always have some reference. If one says a building is creative we always compare it with all principles of design whether it is in harmony or contrast with the surroundings or if it is balanced or the whole building is in unity or not. I have tried to understand aspects of creative work by studying Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater. In 1933‚ Kaufmann’s asked Frank Lloyd Wright
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its requirements and materials and which represents a long local tradition is known as Vernacular architecture. Kath-Khuni is a type of timber reinforced stone masonry also locally known in koti banal which basically uses the locally available wood and stone for construction. Moreover the word Kath originated from Sanskrit word kashtth which means wood and kunj or khuni originated from the word kona which means corner. This implies that the corner of the kath-khuni building should compulsorily have
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huge convention center located in the heart of Nashville‚ TN is a Type II Building‚ which is Non-Combustible. There is a ton of unprotected steel on this building which is a noncombustible material. It expands significantly when heated‚ which could either push a wall out or‚ if it is confined‚ twist and turn‚ with the possibility of structural members falling. The biggest concern is all of the unprotected steel on this building‚ its big‚ it’s heavy and once it starts failing it could definitely be a
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