Building Information Modeling

ABOUT LEED Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is a certification system contrived by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) to evaluate the environmental performance of a building and encourage market transformation towards sustainable design. Beginning with its launch in 2000, LEED has grown from one rating system for new construction to a comprehensive system of nine interrelated rating systems covering all aspects of the development and construction process, which…

resources, property, infrastructure and facilities. The construction industry is a vigorously and new system or technique and ideas industry that produces building and infrastructures for all characteristics of commercial and domestic purposes and activities. It is a universal and worldwide industry that facilitates the development and maintenance of building, transport link and energy supplies (Howarth & Watson, 2009). But nowadays, there are many challenges and problems in construction…

summary on a Building Official’s qualification’s, the following is provided. The Ontario Building Code (OBC) is a regulation under the Building Code Act, 1992 (BCA). The OBC prescribes the technical requirements for the construction, renovation, change of use and demolition of buildings. It also provides the tools for the administration and enforcement of the BCA and to establish property standards by-laws. The OBC is essentially a set of minimum provisions respecting the safety of buildings…

Perkins and Will master plan in 2010, there have been over twelve major additions to the original building over the past sixty years. This left the building with a patchwork of different building styles. Clif Greim states that “schools built in the 1960s and ’70s generally lack architectural character, are not energy-efficient and are constructed of cheaper materials”(Greim). With decades of unplanned building history, parts of the school are jumbled and disorganized. This makes the school…

How Shake Shingle Metal Roofing Compares To Wood Shakes If you love the look of a wood shake roof but hate the thought of all the maintenance a wood roof needs, then you should consider getting a shake shingle metal roof instead. You'll have the look you like, but none of the upkeep required for real wood. Here's how the two types of roofing compare. Appearance You may imagine metal roofing to be in long sheets like you see on barns, but it actually comes in different forms. The metal can be…

Potential Problems With Installing Spray Foam Insulation As a homeowner, you want your house to have great insulation, since without it your cooling and heating bills will skyrocket. The best insulation in the world won’t matter though if it is not installed correctly. Foam that is not applied properly in critical spaces will be nothing more than an expensive wall covering. That’s why you need to avoid these potential problems during the insulation installation. Ensure Proper Thickness Spray…

Major focus of this research is study and then to analyze the impact of change management on Business Process Management System (BPMS) implementation. Business process Management faces several risks of failure just like traditional enterprise resource planning (ERP). Change has to be managed in a proper and appropriate manner. In order to control change management, collaboration and communication are very important factors so that success can be achieved. As change management or managing any…

Caution No blank lines is allowed in the MongoDB Script Sampler. If there is a blank line after MongoDB statement, the statement will still be executed but the word “ok” will be displayed in the response. Add new document into the collection Step 1 Change the “Script” area of the MongoDB Script sampler with insert query. In this case, the query of adding document into the collection is shown as follows: db.getCollection('zips').insert({"city" : "BABYLON", "loc" : [ 32.211100, 44.251500 ],…

addition, the safety that steel frames provide due its higher fire resistance is one reason for the increase of its use in house constructions. Another advantage is the longer durability of steel frames compared to wood frames. The tendency of the building industry is to replace the use of wood each time more. The concern about forest preservation is a justification for that. For this reason, it is important to seek materials as steel that can beyond replace being able to improve the…

“the Four Books on Architecture” Palladio develops a numerical and logical system organizing spatial relationships among the elements involved in any building. This system is a guidance for architects when designing such buildings as villas and houses. As well this system includes detailed rules to be considered when an architect arranges building rooms, when he specifies the proportions of spaces, when he makes decisions about the dimensions of halls associating the height of a space with its…