envision thoughts of safety‚ protection‚ and privacy. However‚ in the essay “Divided We Fall: Gated and Walled Communities in the United States‚” Edward J. Blakely and Mary Gail Snyder address the controversy of gated communities by introducing gates as dreadful‚ restrictive‚ and exclusive. The statement they make is that gated communities are ruining our nation by creating seclusive communities where the people within never interact with people outside their gates. While that can happen‚ it is not nearly
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Building materials industry is one of the largest markets of wear resistant industry‚ besides cement industry‚ some new construction materials industries become important partners of wear resistant industry. KAIYUAN COMPANY has established long term cooperative relationship with China’s largest pipe pile manufacture---Jianhua Pipe Pile. China has become the world’s largest construction materials consumption nation. The development potential in construction materials industry is huge. Wear-resistant
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The Virtual Community begins with Rheingold telling the reader how he used the online parenting virtual community WELL to help in an emergency at home. What he emphasizes in this retelling is how he got the solution to his problem from the community quicker than he would have using health professionals. From there‚ Rheingold tells the reader how many topics are covered in online communities and no matter what kind of person one is‚ there is something that they are very interested in and will speak
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SRE Sustainability Office Sustainable Building Design Guidebook Siemens Real Estate Impressum Client Siemens Real Estate Otto-Hahn-Ring 6 81739 Munich Contact Rainer Kohns‚ Otto Reich Consultant Intep Integrale Planung GmbH Innere Wiener Str. 11 D-81667 München Germany Intep Integrated Planning LLC 2225 Franklin Avenue East Minneapolis‚ MN 55404 USA Authors René Sigg‚ Ute Houzer‚ Thomas Rühle‚ Stephan Tanner‚ Joel Schurke Date/Version March‚ 2006 / 09-01
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Chapter 5 & 8 Florida Building codes Paper Chapter 5 of the Florida building codes covers the provisions that control the height and area of structures hereafter erected and additions to existing structures. Premises Identification 501.2 All buildings‚ including homes‚ located within the city shall have the number assigned them by the city engineer. The number shall be a contrasting color either located in a clearly visible portion of such building from the adjacent road or in the front
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CENTRE FOR FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES CORE COURSE ESSAY COVER SHEET FULL NAME: SAMUKHELE MWASE STUDENT NUMBER: MWSSAM001 CONTACT NUMBER: 0843019744 COURSE CODE: FAM1001P TOPIC: One of University’s older buildings gets a facelift DUE DATE: 30 NOVEMBER 2012 SEMINAR LEADER/TUTOR: KIM JOHNSON Plagiarism Declaration 1. ------------------------------------------------- I know that plagiarism is wrong. Plagiarism is to use another’s work and pretend that it is one’s own. 2. -------------------------------------------------
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Report on Building Information Modeling (BIM) By Kunal J. Chopda Tirumal Vardhan Reddy Ginnaram Manan Ukani Swaroop Kulkarni kjc2143 trg2118 mdu2104 sck2150 Submitted In requirement of a Term Project for E4132 – Prevention and Resolution of Construction Disputes Civil Engineering Fu Foundation School of Engineering Columbia University‚ New York‚ NY 10027 Report on Building Information Modeling (BIM) 0 Acknowledgement We are grateful to Mr. Ethan
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will be exploring some design approaches on environmentally friendly buildings and to define what is mean by the term “sustainable architecture”? Green architecture is a sustainable method of green building design: it is design and construction with the environment in mind. Green architects generally work with the key concepts of creating an energy efficient‚ environmentally friendly house. The environmentally friendly building materials and construction methods will be introducing in this assignment
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The concept of communities of practice initially appears in the work of Lave and Wenger (1991) in between their discussions of situated learning. The authors in the study showed important implications for learning and knowledge conducted informally and has developed practical activities. The intention was to show that many of the attributes linked to learning and knowledge were beyond the psychological conception (eminently nature Cognitive)‚ incorporating functions and peculiarities of sociology
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Eighth International IBPSA Conference Eindhoven‚ Netherlands August 11-14‚ 2003 BUILDING MORPHOLOGY‚ TRANSPARENCE‚ AND ENERGY PERFORMANCE Werner Pessenlehner and Ardeshir Mahdavi Department of Building Physics and Human Ecology Vienna University of Technology Vienna‚ 1040 - Austria ABSTRACT Certain energy-related building standards make use of simple numeric indicators to describe a building ’s geometric compactness. Typically‚ such indicators make use of the relation between the volume
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