Task : reference fileRoofing and cladding Tiled roofingReferenceSubject matter coveredMonier Roofing. n.d. Installation guide.This is an installation manual that provides technical information on how to install roof tiles. The manual is designed in compliance with both AS 2050 and NZS 4206 guidelines on installing roof tiles. The manual covered the roofing tiles installation process comprehensively from the supporting structure preparation to securing accessories after the tile installation process. In particular, the guide addresses the installation of battens, bedding and pointing, sarking and how to do it for the various parts of the roof, the laying of the tiles, securing them, and lastly securing accessories. In addition to text, the guide provides very details pictorial illustrations and details for the various environmental conditions as well as possible hazards like bush fires.Bristle roofing. 2017. Concrete roofing tiles: technical manual. Available at https://bbp.style/PUBLIC/products/technical-information/bristileroofing/Concrete/BR-ConcreteRoofTiles-ConcreteRangeTechnicalManual-NAT.pdf [accessed 28 February 2018]This is a manual on the…...
Building Surveying AssessmentTask 1: Planning Application requirements George Rivers Councila. All documents needed to achieve satisfactory planning-approval submission for a three-storey home and whether or not the venture would acquire council approval.Development Application lodgment requirementsApplication forms (Hard copies accepted) Complete Development Application Consent of the owner on a separate letter or formPlans- PDF (All new additions colored) Survey Plan (needed in case of every new structure and any additions or extensions made to extant structures) Site Analysis Plan Site Plan (All applications) Needs to display site area, size, north point, extant vegetation, structures locations and their distance from the boundaries, and adjacent plots building locations Elevations (Fresh external modifications and developments) that explicitly display individual floor, roof and ceiling levels heights, besides extant and planned ground levels Sections (Every fresh external modification and development) Floor Plans (Every fresh development. In case of additions and modifications, there is a need…...
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George River Council, n.db. Application guide.
Georges River Council, n.da. Development Application Checklist. Accessed 23 April 2018
Planning SA, 2002. GUIDE TO DEVELOPMENT ASSESSMENT An Integrated Planning and Development Assessment System for South Australia. Government of Austraia. Accessed 23 April 2018 < https://www.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/17049/Guide_to_development_assessment.pdf>
Building Surveying assessment; , 5Task 1a. All documentation for boarding house in Marrickville Councili. Cost of Works fee costii. Structural Engineer certificate or Party Wall Consentiii. Plans Site Plan Site Analysis Plan oof and Floor Plans Survey Plan Landscape Plan Sections and Elevations Notification Plans Shadow Diagrams Storm waterDrainage ConceptPlan Vehicle Access and Car Parking Plans Subdivision Plan Extra Solar Access Prerequisitesiv. Supporting Documentation BASIX Certificate Environmental Effects Statement Arborist eport Flood isk Management eport Water Management Statement Heritage Impact Statement Foreshore isk Management eport Conservation Management Plan Waste Management Plan Structural Engineers Construction Methodology and eport SEPP65 Developments Development Standards Exceptions Fire Safety Schedule Geotechnical eport Access eport AP in case of Contaminated Land Acoustic eport Parking and Traffic Assessment Social Impact Assessment 3D Model Photomontage and Sample and Materials Board Management Plan (Inner west Council N.D.a)The extant application lacks a few key plans and supporting documentation…...
mlaReferencesAcoustics Australia, 2017. ACOUSTICS NEWS AND REGULAR ITEMS. Acoustics Australia, 44(2).Australia, W. 2010, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AUTHORITY and OFFICE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AUTHORITY.Inner west Council, n.d. Housing and development forms. Retrieved Marrickville Council, n.da. “PART 4. Residential Development: Boarding houses.” In Marrickville Development Control Plan. Marrickville Council, n.db. Guidelines- development application guidelines. Retrieved < >Patterson, M.J., 2004. Recent changes to the sound insulation provisions of the Building code of Australia. Achieve the ultimate with Brüel & Kjær service, 32(3-85), p.111.Yigitcanlar, T., 2006. Australian local governments’ practice and prospects with online planning. URISA Journal, 18(2), pp.7-17.http://www.marrickville.nsw.gov.au/Global/marr/marrwr/_assets/main/lib65090/guidelines.pdf
Building Surveying assessment_ , 4Task 1: Planning application requirements for osman Councila. Documents RequiredIt is always a priority to check the kind of approval needed.Development ExemptA lot of minor changes to buildings such as renovations of the interior and other work touching on non-structural part may fall under the exempt development category. Retention of fences, walls, blinds, awnings, greenhouses, gazebos, sheds, privacy screens, enclosures, pathways, driveways, decks, pathways, internal structures that are non-load bearing, maintenance repairs and landscaping are some of the exemption works cited (NSW Government, n.d). If the alterations suggested comply with all the requirements for exemption indicated in the NSW Environmental Planning Policy, they be done without securing consent from the CouncilComplying DevelopmentInternal and external changes that are not exempted must fulfill complying development criteria. Complying development refers to a specific class of low effect development that complies with criteria already established by either the Environmental Planning…...
mlaMosman Council, amd. 2018. Mosman Residential Development Control Plan 2012.Mosman Municipal Council, 2004. Residential Development Control Plan. NSW Government, n.d. State Environmental Planning Policy (Exempt and Complying Development Codes) 2008. Accessed 24 April 2018 Phoon, K.K. and Kulhawy, F.H., 1999. Characterization of geotechnical variability. Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 36(4), pp.612-624.
Building Design Construction Methods and Collapse
General building design and construction methods
Contemporary building regulations are effective in ensuring the safety of occupants throughout the life cycle of the structure. Government agencies have the responsibility of inspection to ensure safety and enforcing compliance to regulations and codes during constructions. Building design and construction methods evolve in response to emerging trends and demands in the industry. Advancements within the design and construction industries transform the demands and orientation of structures as per the consumer demand.
Building designs and construction methods have associated types of collapse. Designs and construction methods determine the gravity resistance system of buildings. Different building designs and construction methods have related hazards from the collapse of structures.
Fire resistive buildings
Fire resistive building designs integrate the application non-combustible materials in construction. This prevents the construction materials from adding to the fire load and smoke within and spread from the building. Construction materials used…...
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Mohammad, H. (2009). On the challenges of evacuation and rescue operations in high-rise buildings. Structural Survey, 27 (2): 109-118.
Randall, M. (2005). OSHA to the Rescue: Roofing industry benefits from agency's efforts. Professional Safety, 50 (2): 38-40.
Building Coalitions
Early on in my career I recognized that building coalitions was a highly regarded quality within the federal government, and it became my goal to be respected by both civilian and military leaders. Throughout the course of my career, I have been able to build strong relationships with many outstanding colleagues and have been involved with successful actions at high levels of government which have allowed me ample opportunities to build strong networks and support systems. There are four important examples of coalition building that I would like to discuss here.
The first example was my colleague's recommendation that I be chosen to represent women in the military on a commemorative stamp issued for that purpose. I was surprised and delighted that I had built a strong enough relationship with this colleague to be recommended for this honor. Even though there were hundreds of applicants interviewed, I was selected and…...
mlaAnother important example of building coalitions comes from my work at the Office of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. There are many high-level interconnected government relationships that I must deal with daily, and have been working in this job since 1998 at the cabinet level. I hold the title of Senior Civilian Protocol Officer and must communicate both policy and guidance to VA employees throughout the world. In addition to working with these individuals, I also work with Congressional committee staff, White House staff, and those in other governmental organizations, which allows me to learn about and communicate with many different kinds of people on many different levels.
The fourth and final example of building coalitions comes from 2000, when I led a team of 50 individuals to establish and create the USO Exhibit located in the Pentagon. Now in it's fifth year, the exhibit is viewed by over 100,000 tourists per year, and cost $50,000 to create. During the creation of the exhibit, I coordinated staff policy, maintained focus, and met goals and objectives for the Secretary of Defense. For our performance, my team and I received honor awards; I also received the Secretary of Defense Meritorious Service Award.
The performance that I have continued to give to each organization that I have been involved with throughout my career has helped me to win support for many of my ideas and has created important relationships with many colleagues. Leadership roles are valuable to me, and I ensure that customer complaints are handled properly and new procedures are implemented, as well as ensuring that there is a consensus developed among all of those that are participating in a particular project so that it can run smoothly and be completed on time. By building coalitions I have the opportunity to share my experience and to help others with their skills.
Building Security
External building security seems to have taken on added significance since the 2001 strike against the orld Trade Center in New York city by terrorists that flew airplanes into the two buildings that resulted in their complete decimation. As one recent study determined, however, there are modern remedies that help against future attacks of similar nature. One study in particular determined that "Ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC) is particularly suitable for application in aircraft-impact-resistant high-rise buildings for combined load-bearing and protective structures" (Noldgen, Fehling, Riedel, Thoma, 2012, pp. 358). There are more concerns however in developing and maintaining security than just worrying about an airplane (or other missile) being used against a building for terrorism and mayham.
One of the concerns may include the access points to the building that may be vulnerable to entry by those who seek to control or damage the building. As the book reminds us that fortifying…...
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White House (2013) Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th edition, p. 1 -- 1
Chapters 10 -- 11 -- 15 in the book (you will have to put in the citation)
uilding Class Curriculum in Private Schools
The purpose of this work is to research five credible and informative articles about how to build a course curriculum for use in private schools.
Historically, private schools have failed to meet the national standards required for students to graduate from high school.
In the work entitled, "Regular Classroom Practices With Gifted Students: Results of a National Survey of Classroom Teachers state is that The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented (NRC/GT) to determine the extent to which gifted and talented students receive differentiated education in regular classrooms across the United States that Four questions guided this research pertaining to modification of instructional practices and curriculum materials to meet the needs of gifted and talented students. Through use of survey samples that were drawn in stratified random sampling procedures and a survey instrument called the "Classroom Practices Questionnaire (CPQ) was developed to obtain background information…...
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66). St. Justinus' was influenced by St. Caster at Coblenz and churches Michaelstadt and Seligenstadt (Fegusson & Spiers p. 220). The columns and roofs are of cultural interest and the massive Gothic choir and its original seating still exist.
3.4. Significances
St. Justinus' has undergone changes over the years. In 1298 the relics of St. Justinus' were transferred to the mother church St. Margaret who in turn dedicated the church. In 1419 the Antoniter order made numerous altercations to the church including the building of the gothic chancel. In the early 18th century the church added an organ that is mostly intact today (The American Organist). In the 1930s and the 1980s St. Justinus' underwent restoration; today the church belongs to the parish of St. Josef in the Frankfurt district of Roman Catholic Diocese of Limburg (aedekers Frankfurt).
Crusades:
4. Krak des Chevaliers, Syria (AD 1144 -- 1250) -- 950 words
4.1. ackground
The Krak…...
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Baedekers Frankford: a city guide series. Prentice Hall Press, 1987. Print.
Bennett, M. The Hutchinson dictionary of ancient and medieval warfare. Chicago, Il: Helicon Publishing, 1998. Print.
Billings, Malcolm. The Crusades: Five Centuries of Holy Wars. New York: Sterling
The model that emerged from the study proposes that there is a relationship of life mission with transformational learning and self-directed learning. Adult educators may improve their learning process when they provide some way for learners to understand their life's mission and relate it to learning. This may help the learning experience go from being teacher-directed to being more student-directed. The study suggests that purpose seeking must be included in emancipatory learning as well as awareness building (Kroth, p.134).
Stephen Brookfield recently published a study of the theory entitled epositioning ideology critique in a critical theory of adult learning about adult learning and how it differs from other types of theories. Looking at contemporary readings in adult educational, particularly those of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, as interpreted by Habermas, who taught "risk sliding into an exclusive engagement with the pragmatic dimensions of his thought to the exclusion of…...
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Brookfield, S. (2001).Repositioning ideology critique in a critical theory of adult learning. Adult Education Quarterly, vol. 52(11.
Brookfield, S. (2002). Overcoming alienation as the practice of adult education: the contribution of Erich Fromm to a critical theory of adult learning and education. Adult Education Quarterly, Vol. 52(2).
Barry-Craig P. Johansen and Gary N. McLean (2006). Worldviews of adult learning in the workplace: a core concept in human resource development. Advances in Developing Human Resources, Vol. 8(8.)
Belzer, a. (2004). "It's not like Normal School": the role of prior learning contexts in adult learning. Adult Education Quarterly, Vol. 55(1).
The sixth point is that they accept credit cards and other cards, so that the customers find it easy to pay for the purchase, and the company also can ensure that they do not end up losing any money due to cheating by the customers. All these points are important and have to be covered within the plans for the new organization of instantwheel.com. Even with this, since this site will be the newest of all sites, it will have a natural disadvantage. To cover this disadvantage up, it would be better to tie up or purchase an organization which has existed for a long time, so that 'a wealth of experience' can be claimed for instantwheel.com.
Unique Selling Position
For any business to be a successful business, the organization has to have a Unique selling position. This means that this particular position sets them apart from other business in that…...
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Dean, Terry. "Don't Re-Invent the Wheel...Improve on it" Retrieved at Accessed on 18 July, 2005http://www.xetg.com/articles/others/dont_reinvent_the_wheel.shtml .
Direct email marketing" Retrieved at Accessed on 18 July, 2005http://www.bulkleads4sale.150m.com/googleusd/ .
F.A.Q. And Site Help" Retrieved at Accessed on 18 July, 2005http://www.victoriatire.com/FAQ.html?cart=112167729329171613 .
Money making sites" Retrieved at Accessed on 18 July, 2005http://www.bored.com/categories/paidtoplay/paidtoplay.html .
Each onion router removes a layer of encryption to uncover routing instructions, and sends the message to the next router where this is repeated. This prevents these intermediary nodes from knowing the origin, destination, and contents of the message.
1.4.
Lecture Survey.
The predicted solution of the problems related to e-government administration depends on answering the following questions as brainstorming ideas to solve the problem and the features provided by the system or application.
1. An important step for processing of e-Government.
2. To ensure the confidentiality of information such as contracts for military weapons and other by Providing a high level of security as it is based on singing the data by combining multiple key values like user id, date stamp and transaction id which produce an encrypted key utilized and used only internally by the system for authentication and validation of user privileges. This procedure would make it virtually impossible to falsify…...
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Averyt, William. (2005). E-Government Reconsidered: Renewal of Governance for the Knowledge Age. American Review of Canadian Studies 35(4): 769-770.
Chaffee, a. (2000-08-17). "What is a web application (or "webapp")?"
Cohen, JE. (2000). Examined Lives: Informational Privacy and the Subject as Object. Stanford Law Review 52(5): 1373.
Bourquard, J.A. (2003, March). What's Up with E-Government? Digital Government Isn't a Silver Bullet, but as Part of a Long-Term Plan it May Provide a Means to Reduce State
epresentative Building Information Modeling Implementations in Other Countries
As noted above, evaluating the effectiveness of building information modeling systems remains challenging because of the relatively recent addition of this suite of modeling tools to the architect/designer repertoire, but there are some salient successful examples of such deployment from around the world as set forth in Table 1 below.
Table 1
epresentative Building Information Modeling Implementations in Different Countries
Country
Description
Finland
Approximately 33% of architects and engineers were using BIM applications according to a 2007 survey; no case studies or other surveys of Finnish engineering firms have been conducted to date to the authors' knowledge (Wong, Wong & Nadeem, 2010). The major adopters of BIM include VTT. Building information modeling guidelines are being formulated with industry-wide support and collaboration (Wong et al., 2010).
Norway
The Norwegian Homebuilders' Association has encouraged the adoption of BIM industry wide; the major adopter of BIM at present is SINTEF (Wong et al., 2010).
Denmark
More…...
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'a Case Study of BIM Implementation in India.' (2012, August 30). AEC Bytes: Building the Future. [online] available: http://www.aecbytes.com/buildingthefuture/2012/InformArchitects-CaseStudy.html.
'Around the world with BIM.' (2012). AEC Bytes. [online] available: / blog/2012/05/09/around-the-world-with-bim/.http://aecbytes.com
Cotts, D.G., Roper, K.O. & Payant, R.P. (2010). The Facility Management Handbook. New York: American Management Association.
Fisk, R. (2011, February 24). 'Tripoli: A City in the Shadow of Death.' The Independent
Buckingham Palace -- Heating Engineering Structure
Buckingham Palace - Heating Structure
The average temperatures of the groundwater systems are primarily maintained at the recorded depths of 10-15m under the ground surface (this is estimated at the mean yearly air temperature for the specific region) with further depths increase based on the geothermal gradient of the region (this is estimated to be 2.6°C for every added 100m of depth). Consequently, there's a temperature velocity and difference between the two estimates of the air temperatures and underground or groundwater temperatures for all the year; the analysis shows that the groundwater temperature maintain to be cooler in comparison that the air temperature throughout the year even during summers. We have seen numerous building engineering structures hence utilize the groundwater temperatures to control the heat/cold within the buildings. Buckingham Palace in the United Kingdom is one exemplary illustration of the use of groundwater temperatures. The structure…...
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Abesser, C. (2010). Open-loop ground source heat pumps and the groundwater systems: A literature review of current applications, regulations and problems. British Geological Survey.
Coopers (2010). KoolShade Solar Control. Available from: http://www.coopersfire.com.au/documents/literature/Koolshade/Koolshade%20brochure.pdf
Green Energy 360. 2008. [cited 27 May 2010]. Available from http://www.greenenergy360.org/heat_pumps/heat_pump_economics.php
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Management
POMOTE INNOVATION IN A TEAM ENVIONMENT
Promoting Innovation in a Team Environment
Promoting Innovation in a Team Environment
Change and innovation forces in the furniture retail business include the digital revolution. The scope of cheaper computing techniques is moving towards implementation of fundamental dimension on companies due to enabling companies and deployment of computational resources where big firms had major entry barriers. Companies in the furniture business across the world have lower operating costs, increased IT capabilities coupled with improvement of business models and creation of better services and products at lower prices. The second driving force is the use of social media within the society. Digital technology is progressively becoming a significant application within different functions of business, society, and life (Ancona & Bresman, 2013).
Furniture business today is becoming inconceivable in the absence of the internet where countless software tools are used in managing modern enterprises. More people are engaged in social…...
mlaReferences
Ancona, D., Bresman, H., (2013). X-Teams: How To Build Teams That Lead, Innovate, And Succeed. New York: Harvard Business Press.
Jordan, A., & Lenschow, A., (2009). Innovation in Environmental Policy? Integrating the Environment for Sustainability. New York: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Mumford, M.D. (2011). Handbook of Organizational Creativity. New York: Academic Press.
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