launched in 1990. BREEAM sets the standard for best practice in sustainable building design‚ construction and operation and has become one of the most comprehensive and widely recognised measures of a building’s environmental performance. A BREEAM assessment uses recognised measures of performance‚ which are set against established benchmarks‚ to evaluate a building’s specification‚ design‚ construction and use. The measures used represent a broad range of categories and criteria from energy to ecology
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construct. For instance‚ If you believe social constructions aren’t real‚ then please take out all the bills in your wallet and pass them up to me. Money is an example of a social construction that plays an extremely important role in our everyday lives. All those paper bills and coins are "just" paper and metal‚ and all that money in your bank account is "just" some numbers in a computer. Think about that for a moment. You may ruin the economy construction‚ which is assumptions on based on reality‚
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The Theory of Social Construction What is Social Construction? Social Construction Theory is concerned with the ways we think about and use categories to structure our experience and analysis of the world. (Jackson‚ Penrose) Nurture versus Nature The Nurture approach would say that rather than genetics or inborn traits‚ social ideas and categories (including stereotypes) are socially constructed or and then accepted as reality‚ despite the facts. – For instance‚ the earth was once considered
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Happyland Construction Maulik Patel Maulik.patel@westburne.ca Module – 2 Happyland Construction Inc. is an engineering firm involved in design and construction of oil shale plants. It is building a plant in Blissful Valley‚ which is part of Mirth County‚ in the Province of Giggle. Happyland is a world leader in designing shale oil plants and has about 100 employees working on site. Happyland has been advised that a new crane has to be used on the site – the GargantuLift 6000 by Mega Corporation
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Macroeconomics Problem Set 1 1. Explain why an economy´s income must equal its expenditure 2. List the four components of GDP. Give an example of each 3. Why do Economists use real GDP rather than nominal GDP to gauge economic well-being 4. What component of GDP (if any) would each of the following transactions affect? Explain a. A family bus a new refrigerator b. Jane buys a new house c. For sells a Thunderbird from its inventory d. You buy a pizza
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An investigation on social construction. INTRODUCTION The purpose of this work is to describe‚ analyse and understand what an anthropological understanding of social construction is and how it works. In order to do this‚ I’ll start by giving a general explanation of what a social construct is‚ after that I’ll bring three different concepts which I understand as social constructions. Specifically the three concepts will be gender‚ death and language using. To explain gender “Rites of Manhood:
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Fundamental of Macroeconomics ECO/372 There are many words out there that people do not think about all the time but these terms are mainly used in the business world. These words are Gross Domestic Product‚ Real GDP‚ Nominal GDP‚ Unemployment rate‚ Inflation rate‚ and Interest Rate. Gross Domestic Product is defined as the market value of all the final goods and services produced within a country during a given period. Real GDP is considered to be a nation’s total output of goods
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political dynamics (Holland‚ 1996; James & Prout‚ 1997; Sorin & Galloway‚ 2005). The purpose of the following analysis is to examine nine images of children being depicted in today’s media and identify the different constructions of childhood that they promote. The three social constructions of childhood that have been identified in these images include: the child as vulnerable (Simpson‚ 2005)‚ the child as innocent (Woodrow‚ 1999) and the child as a ‘gendered being’ (Burman‚ 1995). Conceptual tools
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Fundamentals of Macroeconomics Week two objectives analyze the impact of various factors on aggregate demand and supply; in addition to evaluating the effectiveness of changes in fiscal policies using Keynesian and Classical models. This paper will explain the following terms: gross domestic product (GPD)‚ real GDP‚ nominal GDP‚ unemployment rate‚ inflation rate‚ and interest rate. As well as describing the effects of purchasing of groceries‚ massive layoff of employees‚ and decrease in taxes
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Building Construction Related to the Fire Service Chapter 1: Building Construction & Fire Service The building variables that FF must consider: • Age of building – age in itself is not a hazard but an indication of potential hazards • Fire protection systems – first line of defense in a building • Occupancy of the building – often affects fire behavior…each occupancy has different hazards & fuels‚ and the structural components are subjected to different temperatures‚ heat release
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