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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ashburton Learning Village is a learning complex in Woodside, London. It stands in the London Borough of Croydon, and is located near Ashburton Park. The learning village includes the new Ashburton Library, Ashburton Community School, Croydon Music Service and a training centre. The complex was built after the old Ashburton Library was closed down. The nearest Tramlink stop is Woodside, for Tramlink routes 1 and 2. The centre is earmarked as Croydon's Flagship Learning Village. The ?20 million secondary school, library and community facilities is the borough's first education Private Finance Initiative (PFI) development. Photovoltaic cells integrated into clerestory glazing will cast dappled shadows along a three-storey central concourse running through the heart of the building. An overhanging roof canopy will provide shelter to the main public entrance. Energy minister Malcolm Wicks has praised the new development in Croydon, for its...

Jordan Sand

Book DescriptionA house is a site, the bounds and focus of a community. It is also an artifact, a material extension of its occupants' lives. This book takes the Japanese house in both senses, as site and as artifact, and explores the spaces, commodities, and conceptions of community associated with it in the modern era. As Japan modernized, the principles that had traditionally related house and family began to break down. Even where the traditional class markers surrounding the house persisted, they became vessels for new meanings, as housing was resituated in a new nexus of relations. The house as artifact and the artifacts it housed were affected in turn. The construction and ornament of houses ceased to be stable indications of their occupants' social status, the home became a means of personal expression, and the act of dwelling was reconceived in terms of consumption. Amid the breakdown of inherited meanings and the fluidity of modern society, not only did the increased...

L S Blake

Civil Engineer's Reference Book

Thomas Vandenbergh

Within sustainable development one strives for structures with a minimum volume of material. At conceptual design stage a clear hierarchy among different structural morphologies can be established with Morphological Indicators (or MI). MI are dimensionless numbers that represent a property of a structure (e.g. its volume) and only depend on a reduced number of variables, providing user-friendly and efficient tools to guide students, architects or engineers, during their comparison of different structural types. Till now MI privileged resistance as the prior design constraint. This book shows that stiffness and stability problems can require important additional structural modifications. New indicators are introduced to include more design criteria: predicting global planar instabilities, assessing (pedestrian induced) vibrations and reducing them with tuned mass dampers. The application of different optimisation methods, based on numerical algorithms, on practical...

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Anscombe's quartet comprises four datasets that have identical simple statistical properties, yet appear very different when graphed. Each dataset consists of eleven (x,y) points. They were constructed in 1973 by the statistician F.J. Anscombe to demonstrate both the importance of graphing data before analyzing it and the effect of outliers on statistical properties. The first one (top left) seems to be distributed normally, and corresponds to what one would expect when considering two variables correlated and following the assumption of normality. The second one (top right) is not distributed normally; while an obvious relationship between the two variables can be observed, it is not linear, and the Pearson correlation coefficient is not relevant. In the third case (bottom left), the distribution is linear, but with a different regression line, which is offset by the one outlier which exerts enough influence to alter the...

Rahman Shahshenas

The seismic performance of selected typical exciting RC buildings in Turkey retrofitted by eccentric steel braces is investigated. Briefly, non-ductile reinforced concrete (RC) buildings have been classified into low-rise (4 story), mid-rise (7 story) and high-rise (10 story) buildings. Lateral resisting contribution of the eccentric steel bracing in rehabilitating the building has been examined. The effect of steel bracing distributed over the height of the RC frame on the seismic performance of the rehabilitated building has been studied. In terms of estimating the actual behavior of the buildings during the seismic activity, to evaluate seismic performance levels of the existing buildings two procedures have been selected from FEMA 356; ?Linear Dynamic Analysis? and ?Nonlinear Static Analysis?. The performance of the building is evaluated in terms of story drifts and damage indices. The aim of this study is making detailed assessment of existing buildings and introducing...

Catherine Lynn Frangiamore

Graham M. Winch

Project management is of critical importance in construction, yet its execution poses major challenges. In order to keep a project on track, decisions often have to be made before all the necessary information is available. Drawing on a wide range of research, Managing Construction Projects proposes new ways of thinking about project management in construction, exploring the skills required to manage uncertainty and offering techniques for thinking about the challenges involved. The second edition takes the information processing perspective introduced in the first edition and develops it further. In particular, this approach deepens the readera??s understanding of the dynamics in the construction project process a?? from the value proposition inherent in the project mission, to the functioning asset that generates value for its owners and users. Managing Construction Projects is a unique and indispensible contribution to the available literature on construction project...

Magda Sibley

Book DescriptionCourtyard housing is one of the oldest forms of domestic development spanning at least 2000 years and occurring in distinctive form in many regions of the world. Traditionally associated with the Middle East where climate and culture have given shape to a particular type ofcourtyard housing, other examples exist in Latin America, China and in Europe where the model has been reinterpreted. This book demonstrates, through discussions on sustainability and regional identity, and via a series of case studies, that she courtyard housing form has a future aswell as a past.

Dan Chesnut

This is a story about one man's venture to build an adult treehouse with all the bells and whistles. Follow your dreams and use the lessons learned about leadership throughout your life to accomplish your goals. This is a forty-year personal journey that builds upon experiences with family, the military and manufacturing. The goal here was to build a self-contained structure and work through the planning that involved engineering, drafting and electricity. This project was built on creativity, imagination and teamwork, which can be used on any project at home or work. The full-color photographs, sketches and planning take you through the steps that were necessary and illustrate helpful building tips. It is time to have fun and be young again!