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construction materials are materials produced within a specific distance from the construction site; different certification programs specify a variety of distance. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design’s (LEED) definition of locally sourced is, “building materials or products that have been extracted, harvested, or recovered, as well as manufactured, within 500 miles of the project site for a minimum of 10% or 20%, based on cost, of the total materials value.” Not all materials are…

framework for green building construction should be developed to overcome these barriers, possibly promoting adoption of sustainable construction in future projects. Green building legislation is enacted in the United States to promote the adoption of green building construction by providing LEED standards to satisfy (Hwang, B.-G. & Tan, J. S., 2012). Solutions to the obstacles include: government incentives for usage of green products and technologies, public education on green building…

3. Uses of Building information Modeling (BIM) BIM is a 3-D model process used in the engineering, architecture and construction with tools to manage the project effectively in planning, designing, constructing and operational phase. At every stage of project development, BIM plays a vital role, in planning BIM is used for cost estimation; phase planning, site analysis and programming. In the design phase, BIM used for structural analysis, lightning analysis, mechanical analysis, LEED evaluation…

Similar to many historical buildings in Europe and around the world, building facades are of special interest in Historic Jeddah, as the details of windows, balconies, stonework and ornaments give each historic building its individual character (Böhm et al., 2007). Indeed, the historic district of Jedda has a long history that goes back to since 3000 years ago. This historic destorct includes several heritage buildings “around 600”. These heritage monument have been constructed since 350 years…

Case 1: “Southern Builders Inc. vs. Shaw Development LLC, Case No. 19-C-07-011405 (Md. Cir. Ct. 2007)”. Specifically determining roles and duties for each project team member in the project contracts is extremely necessary to successful green-building-project delivery. If there are ambiguities as for varied services or work, problems will instantaneously occur. Facts and Issues. This is one of the first lawsuits related to green construction in the United States. In this case, Shaw…

Abolishing Affirmative Action Solves Nothing While potential college students fill out applications, a majority of the applicants will face the question regarding their race. Most educational institutions often strive for blind admissions in order to establish a fair picking process. However, affirmative action has served as an exception because it allows universities to aid specifically minority students in need of educational opportunities compared to privileged students. Unfortunately,…

Starting from the Three Pillar structure recognized in 1993, under the Treaty of European Union or the Maastritch Treay. The first pillar being the European Community, acting as a supranationalist, being the one in charge of institutions and legislative procedures, agricultural policy, the internal market, environment, citizens’ right, economic and monetary union, regional policy and many more. The other two pillars being intergovernmentalists, the Common Foreign and Security Policy…

Introduction: Discipline investigation is an essay that allows a student to discover the difficulties of professional life. The main source for this essay is the interview that student uses to collect the empirical data. From my opinion, this dissertation is a study to convince students to either follow what they choose or change their career. Before doing this assignment, I expected chemical engineering is a tough profession in the industry but I found out the academic courses were challenging…

would want to go because insane asylums are made to rehabilitate their patients which is the exact opposite of what Joseph wants. This is also a major setback since he has just lost a major part of the progress he has made. He later leaves the institution because of his future bride Marguerite taught him how to be human again (human feelings is what I mean by humanity). “...I gained at first, marginal jobs...and learned to impersonate a human being...I managed to marry Marguerite. And father a…

Multi-level governance and federalism: a comparison of the models & a discussion on the future of the EU The purpose of this essay is to compare multi-level governance and federalism models in the sense of European Union and to discuss the future of the European Union based on these models. Firstly, I define what exactly multi-level governance and federalism models represent and what are the similarities and differences. Further on is a discussion about the developments of EU based on these…