Building material

Mexico city was destroyed by an 8.1 magnitude earthquake. The tragedy made the first page of the New York Times on September 20, a day after the disaster happened. According to the article, more than 40 buildings collapsed throughout the city. Many people were trapped under the rubble of the fallen buildings. Mexico was first built on top of a lake. This makes for a slightly different urban structure than we are used to. The soft soil has made it difficult for city planners and geographers…

earthquake holds the record for the worst magnitude earthquake in the history of the world. With this type history, an earthquake safe structure would be a welcome thing in Chile. As Chileans build homes and buildings they often use shoddy materials, and techniques meant to be used for better materials. Even so, you might be wondering why we don't hear about the devastation in Chile on the news; that would be because after the hundreds of earthquakes Chile has had, the country has learned to…

Myron Andersen. His vision was to have a lumber yard in rural Nebraska that would carry a variety of selection in building materials readily available for contractors in the area. Its first location was only a 2,000 square feet of retail/office space, 8,000 square feet made up the delivery yard and only four hires. The office was opened on 30th avenue originally named “Payless Building Center. In 1985, the business relocated to 2nd avenue, where it currently resides, and became known as…

dealing with inventory and production planning by using a process called just-in-time or JIT production. To get into it a bit and explain exactly what just-in-time means is to keep or have just enough inventory, whether it be finished products or raw materials, on hand and available to comply with how much demand you have for your production process and also the demands of the final customer. Its not to have anything more than that, or anything less. When your products are prepared and ready to…

pour the blended raw materials. Light Weight Experiment (Experiment design and hypothesis) I started my light weight experiment at my own place. I bought a different bag for compost and for 3 days I did not throw any scrap food in trash. My scrap food consisted of Pizza, old pasta, fruits, tea leaves, banana peels, egg shells and coffee grounds. I did put all that material in a strong blender and blended it till it became fine. The last step was that I spread all the raw material in my garden…

Durable Your asphalt shingles may have failed prematurely, with the material only lasting between 15-25 years. A replacement metal roof will be much more durable, lasting anywhere between 20-60 years. Metal actually performs better than wood shingles, roll roofing, and built-up roofs. If you want a material stronger than metal, you’ll need to turn to an expensive alternative like slate.…

architectural expression or meaning, and construction cannot be separated. As the title of the essay The Tell-the-Tale Detail suggests, Friscari believes the detail is part of a narrative of the project. A detail's ability to provide a narrative for how the building was constructed and articulate certain aspects of the design are closely related. For example, the aspect of design emphasized could be process of construction which is revealed through a detail that shows the structure. As…

There are some major lessons that can be drawn from vernacular responses for contemporary societal challenges. Vernacular architecture is a style of building that is created without the use of an architect; it is architecture in its simplest form, concentrating only on the human necessity. Vernacular architecture began when people had to make use of the environment around them, in order to afford themselves protection and comfort as a response to a changing climate. It is a simple approach to a…

companies that are constructing buildings like stores or houses. If a plumbing engineer works on a house, then he or she will be working either at an office building or at home. A plumbing engineer’s responsibility on a house is to design where the hot and cold systems go with help from their assists. The engineer does this job responsibility by using software like Autodesk AutoCAD, Autodesk Revit, and SPIPE by Elite software to effectively design where the pipes in the building are going to be…

iconic building of Post-War International Style in Sydney. This masterpiece was designed in 1950, and completed in 1957, by an architect called Felix Tavener of Rudder Littlemore & Rudder, Architects. According to NSW Environment & Heritage, Qantas House is a representative building of the latest technology and urbanised design in Sydney which also showed the ‘moderate’ transitional aspects of 1930s European modernism. It is also a main defining urban space of Chifley Square2. This building is…