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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Construction hazards • Working at height: XXX describes that working at height includes any workplace has the potential of personal fall of a distance that is sufficient to cause personal injury whether this workplace is at ground level or below it. However‚ most of the resources including XX_____XX mention any work activity which is 2 m and above from the floor surface as working at height. Falling is the major cause of accidental fatalities as it causes about 50% of the total fatalities in
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step by step booting using cold and warm What is the difference between cold and warm booting? COLD BOOT (a.k.a. COLD START) - Booting up from power off condition. WARM BOOT (a.k.a. WARM START)- Restarting the computer WITHOUT turning the power off. Shutdown option in the START menu of windows 9x/2K/XP has a "Restart" option: this is a "warm boot". You perform a cold boot every time you turn on the power switch of your computer. To "boot" the computer means to start it up and reset the memory
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(4) Building construction is a complex‚ significant‚ and rewarding process. It begins with an idea and culminates in a structure that may serve its occupants for several decades‚ even centuries. Like the manufacturing of products‚ building construction requires an ordered and planned assembly of materials. It is‚ however‚ far more complicated than product manufacturing. Buildings are assembled outdoors on all types of sites and are subject to all kinds of weather. Additionally‚ even a modest-sized
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opened its doors to the modern capitalist world and the economy switched from state to private administration. Construction and real estate were the first and the biggest industries that reflected this drastic change on the capital ownership‚ demographic movements and cultural developments of the society. The demand for construction mainly for housing was rapidly rising but construction was seen as a strict discipline related mostly to civil engineering and not well integrated to other fields such
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Volume 3‚ Special Issue 1‚ 2010 Evaluating Research Methodology in Construction Productivity Studies Panas‚ A. and Pantouvakis‚ J. P. cvapanas@mail.ntua.gr and jpp@central.ntua.gr Centre for Construction Innovation‚ Department of Construction Engineering and Management‚ Faculty of Civil Engineering‚ National Technical University of Athens‚ Greece Abstract Despite the large number of published papers in the area of construction productivity‚ a critical review of contemporary thinking with a
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to the downstream side of the dam. All fill dams depend on weight to remain stable. Fill embankments are usually less expensive to construct than concrete dams. Soil or rock are present at the site‚ and construction techniques‚ though complex‚ are also less costly than for concrete construction. For these reasons of available materials‚ low cost‚ and stability with
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CPR The recovery position DANGER – Check to see if the area is safe for you to approach the individual RESPONSE – See if the person responds to touch‚ pain or speech AIRWAY – Lift chin slightly back and tilt the head back BREATHING – Put the head by the patients mouth to listen for the breath to check if the patient is breathing‚ also put the hand on the patients stomach so that you can see the patient breathing. CIRCULATION – Check pulse of the patient and the colour of the patient‚ if patient
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STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS 1. Statutory Construction - is the art or process of discovering and expounding meaning and intention of the authors of the law‚ where that intention is rendered doubtful by reason of the ambiguity in its language or of the fact that the given case is not explicitly provided for in the law - is the drawing of warranted conclusions respecting subjects that lie beyond the direct expression of the text‚ conclusions which are in the spirit‚ though not
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Access log sampler Step-by-step This is a short tutorial on Jmeter’s access log sampler. The purpose of the access log sampler is to provide an easy way to simulate production traffic. There are several benefits to using access logs. 1. rather than guess what users are doing‚ the test plan is using real traffic data 2. as the traffic pattern changes‚ the access log provides a record of individual changes and general shifts in usage 3. access logs contain a lot of useful data‚ which may provide
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