“Take the notion of tradition: it is intended to give a special temporal status to a group of phenomena that are both successive and identical (or at least similar); it makes it possible to rethink the dispersion of history in the form of the same; it allows a reduction of the difference proper to every beginning‚ in order to pursue without discontinuity the endless search for origin.” -Michel Foucault (The Archeology of Knowledge) Advances in contemporary neuroscience and cognitive psychology
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NS4874 CMGT 3280-01 Homework #1 Slavin v. Borinstein (1994) The issue in this case is between the plaintiff‚ Leon Slavin‚ and the defendant‚ Joan W. Borinstein. Slavin is suing Borinstein over a dispute that erupted over payments on a construction project that were not received; on a project Slavin was building for Borinstein. Borinstein and her people agreed to pay Slavin 10 percent of the cost on a house they wanted to build in Los Angles. They would make the payments in installments.
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safety and health management as the foundation to ensure the safe work environment in construction work place Construction is noisy‚ dusty‚ hazardous and sometimes the most uninhabitable work place one can ever be exposed to. It is also an industry that contributes persistently to high accident rates; especially fatalities. Everything that is taboo in the safety practitioner’s book can be found in the construction site. For example‚ employees are easily exposed to hazardous substances such as paints
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The “Social Construction of Reality” is a work of hypothetical reasoning to the redefine the task and to broaden its range to understand the redefining of sociological knowledge. Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann both argue that reality is socially constructed by the knowledge of the people for social reality is produced and communicated amongst others. They emphasize on the fact that human is a part of a product of society and vice versa: society is a product of human. Berger and Luckmann follow
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Statutory Construction: Case Digests Statutory Construction – it is the various methods and tests used by the courts for determining the meaning of law. I. General Principles in defining Statutory Construction Whether the promotional scheme is a lottery or a gift that violates the provisions of the Postal Law (Caltex v. Palomar) In the case at bar‚ there is no requirement in the rules that any fee be paid‚ any merchandise be bought‚ any service be rendered‚ or any value whatsoever be given
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D1 - Assess the importance of addressing environmental issues for the mutual benefit of the community and individual construction firms. The importance of addressing environmental issues for a construction project that will benefit the community and local construction firms is vitally important on everyone’s agenda; it will help firm’s reputation with the local community and authority massively. This can be from using locally sourced materials e.g. materials that can be used without any bad
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"Identifying Root Causes of Construction Accidents‚" the authors‚ Tariq S. Abdelhamid and John G. Everett (2000) presents the development of an Accident Root Causes Tracing Model (ARCTM) that is capable of answering why the accident occurred by identifying possible root causes so that more effective methods for preventing accident can be identified and applied by labor and management. Three examples are examined to explain the use of the model‚ understand construction site’s accidents and identify
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Section 00199 2008 Standard Specifications for Construction Disagreements‚ Protests‚ and Claims (Summary) 00199.10 Procedure for Resolving Disagreements - When disagreements arise between the agency and contractor concerning additional compensation and or additional contract time and compensation‚ the contractor will first attempt to come to a resolution through the Engineer of all the issues. If a satisfactory resolution cannot be reached between the contractor and engineer‚ the contractor will
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Footprint Calculation CO2 Emission‚ Energy Consumption and Water Consumption due to Pavement Construction and Usage Darío Enrique Romero Santana Department of Civil and Construction Engineering‚ Western Michigan University 4601 Campus Drive‚ Room G-249 Kalamazoo‚ MI 49008 United States Introduction Footprint is defined as the “measurement of how much land‚ water and natural resources a person‚ city‚ country or humanity as a whole requires to produce the resource it consumes”‚ (Edelman Darym)
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Executive Summary Happyland Construction‚ an engineering firm engaged in the design and construction of oil shale plants‚ is building a new plant in Blissful Valley that requires the use of a new piece of equipment‚ a new crane. The GargantuLift 6000 crane model produced by Mega Corporation is the recommended crane by engineering‚ maintenance‚ finance‚ purchasing‚ and management staff. Senior management needs to decide whether it is more beneficial for Happyland Construction to purchase the crane outright
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