Green buildings have greater payoffs than the cost to construct them making them a good investment over using standard building sites and materials. Many components play into the construction and design of a green building including location and building materials (just to name a few). Green buildings‚ whether they are homes‚ offices‚ or schools‚ are built to reduce pollution‚ conserve energy used‚ and to more efficiently use renewable resources. Several practices that are now used by those “going
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Decay and deterioration can happen in a building for any number of reasons. The first being poor repair and maintenance of the building over its life by users or those responsible for its maintenance such as a landlord etc. It can also mean that there were original problems with the building that impair its ability to function as intended‚ these may not have been uncovered during the snagging process at the end of the construction stage. These building problems are referred to as defects‚ depending
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Innovation Centre © NHBC Foundation NF 1 Published by IHS BRE Press on behalf of NHBC Foundation December 2006 ISBN-13: 987-1-86081-937-7 ISBN-10: 1-86081-937-0 P R E F A C E The NHBC Foundation has been established to help the house building industry to develop innovative and sustainable ways of meeting the demands for new housing. Its mission is to help set and improve the standard of new homes across the UK. This guide is one element of a series that is expected to grow into a
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Question1 The type of foundation used to support a building is dependent on the type of in-situ soil‚ the bearing pressure of that soil and the loads imposed by the structure on the soil. The Building regulations state that the minimum depth to the underside of a strip found is 0.45 for frost protection and this should be extended to 0.75 in clay soils‚ largely due to the water retention in these materials ( Osbourn and Greeno 2007). This depth is also required to protect the foundation from seasonal
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NFPA 255 Standard Method of Test of Surface Burning Characteristics of Building Materials 2000 Edition --```‚‚‚-`-`‚‚`‚‚`‚`‚‚`--- National Fire Protection Association‚ 1 Batterymarch Park‚ PO Box 9101‚ Quincy‚ MA 02269-9101 An International Codes and Standards Organization Copyright National Fire Protection Association Provided by IHS under license with NFPA No reproduction or networking permitted without license from IHS Not for Resale The Standard is downloaded from www.bzfxw.com Standard
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Introduction The "Building Envelope" is the area that separates conditioned space from unconditioned space or the outdoors. A building envelope includes all elements of a building that enclose conditioned space. Building envelope components separate conditioned spaces from unconditioned spaces or from outside air. For example‚ walls and doors between living areas are part of the building envelope; walls separating a garage from the living areas are not. Besides that‚ floors of conditioned basements
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Sustainable material －POROUS PAVEMENT -- OPEN-JOINED PAVING BLOCKS Introduction: This essay will focus on the application of open-joined paving blocks to minimize the impact of urban development on natural drainage system-capturing‚ slowing and absorbing storm water in the urban condition. In the natural system‚ 10% surface flow‚30% evapotranspiration‚ 40% infiltration‚ 20% interflow‚ while in an urban condition‚ 75% surface flow to pipes‚ 15% evapotranspiration
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Hounsfeild Tensometer Torsion Tensile Tester Vickers Hardness Tester. Summery introduction This project will go into depth of the usage of material selection. After being paired with a fellow student we were given the task of testing 0.1% Carbon Steel‚ 0.4% heat treated steel along with a unknown specimen. To test these materials I will be using 4 types of methods Visual Inspection Hounsfeild Tensometer Torsion Tensile Tester Vickers Hardness Tester. Visual test While
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Table of Contents Introduction……………………………………………….1 I. Improving Energy Efficiency…………………………1 II. Environmental Benefits of Building Green………..9 III. Social Benefits………………………………………..12 IV. LEED Certification…………………………………...12 Conclusion……………………………………………….15 Work Cited……………………………………………….16 Figure 1…………………………………………………... 3 Figure 2…………………………………………………....5 Figure 3…………………………………………………....5 Figure 4…………………………………………………....6 Figure 5…………………………………………………....7 Figure 6…………………………………………………
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planning introduction introduction Maintenance suggests actions that restore something to its original specification‚ rather than actions designed to make it exceed its original specification. In relation to buildings‚ which have very long lives‚ there may be difficulty in sourcing the materials and skills needed to meet the original specification exactly‚ but maintenance is taken to imply an intention to keep to what was there as much as possible. Two definitions for ‘maintenance’: • “Actions
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