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    The Building "Make sure you stay away from the abandoned building‚" they said. I should have listened. That was what they said the night that it happened. I was walking home that night I saw the old abandoned building. I had to take a different route this time because there was construction going on the sidewalk. I and my friend Shawn were walking home because he was spending the night at my house and the next morning we planned to go to Kings Island. Shawn hadn’t been there in a while so we decided

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    Fireman – When I was 5 years old I got a Fire Truck as a Christmas gift. It was very exciting for many months to play with it and I never knew what it was really like to become a fireman/fire fighter. As I grew older‚ I would see fire trucks passing by with screeching sirens and alarming red lights on and I would wonder why one would chose to become a fire fighter. Asking around made me more educated and to my surprise it did not just involved riding noise making‚ shiny powerful red trucks‚ but

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    Introduction of Green Building Materials INTRODUCTION Materials are the stuff of economic life in our industrial world. They include the resource inputs and the product outputs of industrial production. How we handle them is a major determinant of real economic efficiency‚ and also has a major impact on our health and the health of the natural environment The built-environment is also a strategic realm of social‚ economic and environmental change. Various writers have stated that spatial redesign

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    Building Our House by Jonathan Bean According to the Boston Globe Horn Book Award website‚ the winning titles must be published in the United States. The awards are chosen by an independent panel of three judges who are annually appointed by the Editor of the Horn Book. The books are recognized in the categories of fiction/poetry‚ picture books‚ and nonfiction literature. In Building Our House‚ Bean creates an engaging story as well as a look into a warm family setting. A little girl narrates

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    The History of Building Codes‚ Construction‚ and the Aftermath of September 11 Jhimelle I. Sepulveda Columbia Southern University Abstract There have been many catastrophic incidents involving fire throughout history with countless of lives lost and billions of dollars’ worth of damages. The lessons learned from these incidents have led to changes in the way we plan and how we build high-rise structures. These changes evolve into codes and building standards with people’s safety in mind.

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    Green building Revolution in UAE Eng. Mustafa Khalifa Environmental Researcher 16 February‚ 2008 Introduction The United Arab Emirates (UAE) consists of the seven small emirates of Abu Dhabi‚ Dubai‚ Sharjah‚ Ras Al-Khaimah‚ Ajman‚ Umm Al-Qaiwain‚ and Fujairah‚ which were united as a federal state on 2 December 1971. Before the establishment of the oil economy in the early 1960s‚ two main forms of traditional Emirati culture: the nomadic desert-oriented Bedouins with small oasis farming

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    The heritage building in Negri Sembilan that I admire most is none other than the Old Palace of Seri Menanti. The majestic grand timber palace oozes charm and character. It is the living proof of the mastery of carpentry‚ craftsmanship and architectural skills of Malay carpenters and craftsmen a century ago. This magnificent five-storey palace was designed and built by two skillful local carpenters known only as Tukang Kahar and Tukang Taib (Tukang in Malay literally means carpenter or craftsman

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    CONSENT FORM We are conducting this survey to obtain your opinion about vertical expansion and your preferences whether to live in multi-storey building or individual houses. The given questionnaire contains questions regarding personal information‚ behavior and opinion. It is asked that before filling the questionnaire read it thoroughly and feel free to ask any question regarding the information asked. However‚ you could quit at any time during the filling of information if you feel uncomfortable

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    Fletcher building company is largest construction company in NEW ZEALAND. Its history began‚ when they build a timber weather board house in Dunedin‚ New Zealand. They transformed many times over following 92 years. At last in 2001 they listed as Fletcher Building Limited on the New Zealand stock exchange. The Headquarter of Fletcher Company is in Auckland (Penrose) New Zealand. There are 18‚800 employees are working globally and there are 50 businesses operating under the Fletcher building banner

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    Examining the importance of workplace diversity in an organization and relating it to the team dynamic is something all business should engage in. Many leadership courses in the corporate world focus on the importance of team building‚ not group building. The web defines a group as any number of entities considered as a unit. In many instances it is much easier to form a group than it is to form a team. Forming a group is not particularly difficult when using qualifiers to ascertain commonalities

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