soaring skyline wouldn’t be the same without the Empire State Building. Reaching 1‚250 feet‚ it hold the title of the seventh tallest building in the world. It remained the worlds tallest building for 41 years until the World Trade Center topped it off and seven followed. Built during the depression in 1930 and 1931‚ it cost a whopping 41 million dollars. The engineer who took on this giant project was H.G. Balcom. The design of the building changed 16 times during planning‚ but the 3‚000 workers
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BASE ISOLATED BUILDINGS What is base isolation? When a building is built away (isolated) from the ground‚ resting on flexible bearings or pads known as base isolators. It is of the most popular means of protecting a structure against earthquake forces. HISTORY The first evidence of architects using the principle of base isolation for earthquake protection was discovered in Pasargadae. One of the world’s first base-isolated structures – the William Clayton building Base Isolation
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important that you have a customized body building workouts that are meant for you. What it means is that you have to take into consideration of your body type and genes‚ and how your metabolism rate is like when determining your workout routine as well as your muscle building diet. Following blindly without being able to improvise and improve will be as effective as compared to body building workouts just for you. One common mistake that most people made when building muscles is that they do not measure
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BSE1D03 Intelligent Building and Associated Fire Safety Fire Safety in Buildings Professor Walter W. Yuen Chair Professor in Thermal Sciences and Engineering Professor W. K. Chow Department Head and Director‚ Research Centre for Fire Engineering Department of Building Service Engineering The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong‚ China BSE1D03 1 Topics covered in this talk: 1. Introduction. 2. The Risk of a Building Fire (Why do we care ?) 3. The “making” of a Building Fire 4. The Physics
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how we look like to others? I know I do‚ but why? What is the true point of altering the way we look‚ is it just to impress everyone else? So now‚ my fellow friends‚ I am here to emphasize that looks aren’t just everything. “Beauty is more than skin deep” refers to the fact that one can be beautiful at the outside and yet be nice inside and vice versa. A person can be beautiful outwardly and yet be beautiful on the inside what has beneath is what actually makes a. Imagine walking into a new school
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both Dalman and Lei view this as a competitive advantage. Based on new local health codes‚ new laws have been issued requiring trash dumpsters be a minimum distance of 30 feet (9.144 meters) from the rear entrance of the building. New land-use laws require that all out buildings be at least 6 feet (1.8288 meters) from the property lines. The enclosure that houses the trash dumpster is 5 feet (1.524 meters) from the property lines‚ which is in violation of those laws. The government inspector has
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Title: Body Building General purpose: To Inform Specific purpose: After Listening to my speech‚ the audience will be more informed upon body building. Thesis: Many people exercise but some need something more than just push-ups and sit-ups‚ they need body building. INTRODUCTION I.Attention Grabber- Body Building isn’t a race‚ it’s a marathon. -anonymous II.Thesis III.Nutrition‚ Supplements‚ Training BODY I.Nutrition A.Eating what’s right for MAX output 1.Carbs‚ Protein‚ Good
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Report on Building Information Modeling (BIM) By Kunal J. Chopda Tirumal Vardhan Reddy Ginnaram Manan Ukani Swaroop Kulkarni kjc2143 trg2118 mdu2104 sck2150 Submitted In requirement of a Term Project for E4132 – Prevention and Resolution of Construction Disputes Civil Engineering Fu Foundation School of Engineering Columbia University‚ New York‚ NY 10027 Report on Building Information Modeling (BIM) 0 Acknowledgement We are grateful to Mr. Ethan
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The Building Blocks of a Military To become a powerhouse in Greece‚ it took many qualities. Athens had all the right qualities for that‚ and that is why they were worthy of the position. Both the military and the rest of Athens knew how to live. They were born with bravery and confidence but at the same time knew how to have fun and reward themselves. The men‚ who fought in the Peloponnesian War against Sparta‚ from 431 to 404 B.C.E.‚ were well respected and honored by the city of Athens.
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think about strategies teachers have used in my experience as a student. Also why I had trouble in some classes or learned very little from other classes. I also learned other strategies I’ve never heard of before. In the article “Failure of Skin-Deep Learning” about how the students don’t truly learn or understand the subject that is being taught. Bruce Alberts states that trying to cover a large amount of information over the course of one school
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