What preparations are taken in our country to save people and wealth during natural calamities? Bangladesh is a disaster-prone country of an area of about 1‚ 47‚570 sq. km. with population nearing 140 million. Bangladesh becomes the worst victim of natural calamities causing colossal loss of lives and properties. Most of the people of this country are very poor. It is predominantly an agricultural country. The economy largely depends on weather. Major disasters that occur in Bangladesh are: tropical
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MAPÚA-NSTP ON-LINE LEARNING EXERCISE SUMMARY REPORT Prepared by : Calma‚ Armie M. Section: AY02 Date: 5/21/2013 Activity Title: Chapter 12 HOMEWORK NO. 4 GROUP NO. 3 Reminder: Use arial font; size - 12; single –spaced. (Your answers should be in narrative format and do researches to provide more suitable responses.) Answers: 1. In your own understanding‚ What is Community Organizing? Community organizing is a process where people come together to strengthen
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and Built Environment An Examination of the causes and effects of Building Collapse in Nigeria Vol. 9‚ December 2011‚ pp. 37–47 AN EXAMINATION OF THE CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF BUILDING COLLAPSE IN NIGERIA Oke Ayodeji Department of Quantity Surveying‚ Federal University of Technology‚ Akure 234034 Ondo State Nigeria Corresponding Author: emayok@gmail.com Abstract The research investigated the causes and consequence of building collapse in Nigeria using historical data from 1974 to 2006 and
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Was it difficult building the lighthouse in 1868? The construction of the cape Hatteras lighthouse began in 1868.The lighthouse took three years to complete.The major difficultie was that the lighthouse was in such an isolated spot there where no roads for materials to get to the lighthouse there wasn’t even any cars so to get the materials to the construction site everything was brought in by a boat. Small steam boats or sailing vessels were used to bring the materials to the construction site
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Building Technology sba Topic An Investigative Tour into the Manufacturing Processes of Concrete at the Jamaica Pre-Mix Ltd. Molynes Road Plant Teacher: Clement l. Morgan Student: Herbert j. Yee Date: March 2015 Done as a partial fulfillment of course requirement TITLE An Investigative Tour into the Manufacturing Processes of Concrete at the Jamaica Pre-Mix Ltd. Molynes Road Plant. 28/01/15 TABLE OF CONTENT Section
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Bujang Saili UiTM No : 2010237958 Programme code : AP226 Faculty : Faculty of Architecture‚ Planning and Surveying Dissertation tittle : The Acceptance of Industrialized Building System (IBS) for The Construction of Residential Buildings in Sarawak Signature of author : Date : 20 July 2012 ABSTRACT Industrialized Building System (IBS) is defined as products‚ systems and techniques used in making construction less labour-oriented‚ faster as well as quality controlled. It was introduced to
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Every city has own style of architecture. Buildings actually is a face of every country and city. Of course‚ in every city there are old buildings and new ones. There is a question‚ whether a city should preserve its old‚ historic buildings or destroy them and replace them with modern buildings. One group of people is sure‚ that government has to save old buildings. The other group of people thinks‚ that it is better to build new buildings. I have to say‚ that relate myself to the first group of
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"Sustainable building" is the design and construction of buildings using methods and materials that are resource efficient and that will not compromise the health of the environment or the associated health and well-being of the building’s occupants‚ construction workers‚ the general public‚ or future generations. Sustainable building involves the consideration of many issues‚ including land use‚ site impacts‚ indoor environment‚ energy and water use‚ solid waste‚ and lifecycle impacts of building materials
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WHAT IS SICK BUILDING SYNDROME (SBS)? Throughout human civilization‚ humans have been determined to create indoor environments which get us out of the natural elements and protect us from sickness and other hazards. We have created buildings which do just this by creating building envelopes which mechanically‚ or less commonly naturally‚ take in outdoor air. Unfortunately through this practice‚ instead of the buildings getting us away from sickness‚ the buildings it seems may be causing sickness
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E FFECTIVENESS OF INDUSTRIALISED BUILDING SYSTEM (IBS) IMPLEMENTATION FOR MALAYSIAN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY MARDHIAH BINTI ZAWAWI A project report submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of Master of Science (Construction Management) Faculty of Civil Engineering Universiti Teknologi Malaysia NOVEMBER 2009 A BSTRACT Generally‚ the used of Industrialised Building System (IBS) in construction industry throughout the world has positive perceptions
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