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| | Radon Publications - Model Standards |
 | | The model building standards and techniques for radon control in new residential buildings constructed on crawlspace foundations include those systems that actively or passively vent the crawlspace to outside air, that divert radon before entry into the crawlspace, and that reduce radon entry into normally occupied spaces of the building through floor openings and ductwork. | | | Radon control in new residential buildings constructed on a combination of basement, slab-on-grade or crawlspace foundations is achieved by applying the appropriate construction techniques to the different foundation segments of the building. | | | However, jurisdictions and authorities are encouraged to review their current building standards, codes, or regulations and their unique local or regional radon control requirements, and consider modifications, if necessary. |
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http://www.epa.gov/iaq/radon/pubs/newconst.html
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| | MISSOURI SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS |
| | The donation of a building is an asset to further the purpose of the MSPE Educational Foundation, which was established January 15, 1968 under the General Not for Profit Corporation Law, Chapter 355 RSMo, as a way for the member engineer or their family to make charitable contributions to the profession. | | | You may earmark your contribution to be applied directly to our MATHCOUNTS or scholarship programs or you may apply it to the Building Fund which will ultimately benefit all facets of the Educational Foundation activities. | | | Donations to the MSPE Educational Foundation are welcome from members, their families or friends, supporters of the foundation, firms with an interest in the engineering profession and corporate foundations and trusts. |
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http://www.mspe.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=3
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| | Arab Human development report 2003: building Knowledge society |
| | It contrasts this state with the origins and outcomes of the region's rich, enquiring and pluralistic cultural and intellectual heritage, confirming that the latter provide robust foundations on which to build a knowledge society. | | | Basic research should be encouraged and supported by appropriate funding and institutions. | | | The Arab states need to radically improve the quality of all levels of education. |
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http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/031020/2003102009.html
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| | Arab Human development report 2003: building Knowledge society |
| | It contrasts this state with the origins and outcomes of the region's rich, enquiring and pluralistic cultural and intellectual heritage, confirming that the latter provide robust foundations on which to build a knowledge society. | | | The Arab states need to radically improve the quality of all levels of education. | | | "Written into every line is the unwavering conviction that reform efforts, which genuinely serve the region's interests must be initiated and launched from within." Yet the construction of a viable "knowledge society" requires effective economic, social and political institutions, Khalaf emphasizing "The missing links are.. |
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http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/031020/2003102009.html
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| | Arab Human development report 2003: building Knowledge society |
| | It contrasts this state with the origins and outcomes of the region's rich, enquiring and pluralistic cultural and intellectual heritage, confirming that the latter provide robust foundations on which to build a knowledge society. | | | "Written into every line is the unwavering conviction that reform efforts, which genuinely serve the region's interests must be initiated and launched from within." Yet the construction of a viable "knowledge society" requires effective economic, social and political institutions, Khalaf emphasizing "The missing links are.. | | | Contributors to the report included prominent Arab development thinkers and practitioners -- men and women from academia, intelligentsia, civil society, the media and the private and public sector. |
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http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/031020/2003102009.html
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| | Internet Society (ISOC) Organization Members |
| | Our organization members include corporations, non-profit, trade and professional organizations, foundations, educational institutions, government agencies and other international organizations with varied interests. | | | Internet Society Membership Brochure [PDF - 1.1 MB] | | | It is the support of our members that enables ISOC to do this and to lead in helping to ensure the stable growth of the Internet. |
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| | Mostar: Nation Building - CBS News |
| | So a new bridge is rising between the banks of the Neretva, paid for by the World Bank and a consortium of nations and charitable foundations. | | | While there is not much of a modern track record on nation building, there is Bosnia, where the United States and Europe have been performing a sort of lab experiment in nation building for almost a decade. | | | In Iraq and Afghanistan, more than 150,000 troops -- and a projected price tag of hundreds of billions of dollars were all devoted to nation building. |
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/17/60minutes/main578648.shtml
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| | Science Project |
| | Building designs are very important to understand to try to "fool proof" your city or populace in case of an earthquake. | | | The objective of this experiment was to determine which type of structural design and building would better withstand the effects of differing levels of pressure, strain, force and magnitude resulting from an earthquake. | | | Buildings are also built using many different techniques. |
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http://www.selah.wednet.edu/SOAR/SciProj2000/JordanP.html
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| | Earthquake Protection |
| | To make sure the Parliament Buildings are able to withstand an earthquake of up to 7.5 on the Richter Scale a special technique of base isolation was used in the construction of its foundations. | | | Installing the base isolators meant propping up the whole building section by section, cutting out large 7 tonne blocks of the existing foundations and building new concrete foundations to hold the base isolators. | | | The aim of base isolation is to reduce the transfer of earthquake forces from the foundations to the building above, thus significantly reducing the need for extensive and intrusive strengthening concrete shear walls throughout the building. |
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http://www.ps.parliament.govt.nz/quake.htm
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| | The Sir Christopher Wren Building Wren Building |
| | This second form of the building -- the one upon which the restoration of 1928 was based--differed in many ways from the original structure, although it was erected on the original foundations, using much of the original walls. | | | The Sir Christopher Wren Building at the College of William and Mary in Virginia is the oldest college building in the United States and the oldest of the restored public buildings in Williamsburg. | | | Today, as the Wren Building enters its fourth century, it continues to be used as an academic building, housing faculty offices on the third floor and classrooms throughout the building. |
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http://www.wm.edu/about/wren/history.php
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| | The Sir Christopher Wren Building Wren Building |
| | This second form of the building -- the one upon which the restoration of 1928 was based--differed in many ways from the original structure, although it was erected on the original foundations, using much of the original walls. | | | The Sir Christopher Wren Building at the College of William and Mary in Virginia is the oldest college building in the United States and the oldest of the restored public buildings in Williamsburg. | | | Today, as the Wren Building enters its fourth century, it continues to be used as an academic building, housing faculty offices on the third floor and classrooms throughout the building. |
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http://www.wm.edu/about/wren/history.php
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| | Office Buildings |
| | One disincentive to building higher office buildings is that the cost of construction per floor increases with the height of the building because the entire building structure, including foundations and vertical supports, must be stronger. | | | Manhattan, 1987, p.32.) Chicago's Home Insurance Building, completed in 1885, had cast iron columns embedded in the masonry walls to carry some of the building's weight. | | | Except to the extent they are constrained by zoning or building codes, owners of new office buildings chose building heights that produce the greatest profits. |
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http://www.officemuseum.com/office_buildings.htm
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| | foundations - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Phrases that include foundations: building foundations, council on foundations, foundations edge, foundations fear, foundations friends, more... | | | FOUNDATIONS : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info] | | | Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "foundations" is defined. |
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http://www.onelook.com/?w=foundations&ls=all
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| | virginia.edu: Fall 2001 - Walking on Eggshells |
| | "The bricks are now sacred" at the Wren Building, declares Kale -- a reference to the 17th- and 18th-century masonry still extant in the foundations and walls of the building. | | | Interestingly, both the Wren Building and the Rotunda, the centerpieces of their respective historic precincts, are in large part modern re-creations. | | | When the Wren Building was retrofitted with air conditioning in 1967, the big question was how to add bulky ductwork without ruining the 18th-century mien of the place. |
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http://www.itc.virginia.edu/virginia.edu/fall01/retrofit/home.html
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| | New York Architecture Images- Building Types |
| | One disincentive to building higher buildings is that the cost of construction per floor increases with the height of the building because the entire building structure, including foundations and vertical supports, must be stronger. | | | The building was described on the 1904 postcard to the left as the "largest office building in the world." It is the tallest building in the world that is supported primarily by brick load bearing walls. | | | The Park Row Building (on right in photograph) was the tallest building in the world until 1908. |
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http://www.nyc-architecture.com/TYPE/TYPE-Office.htm
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| | Radon Publications - Model Standards |
| | The model building standards and techniques for radon control in new residential buildings constructed on crawlspace foundations include those systems that actively or passively vent the crawlspace to outside air, that divert radon before entry into the crawlspace, and that reduce radon entry into normally occupied spaces of the building through floor openings and ductwork. | | | Radon control in new residential buildings constructed on a combination of basement, slab-on-grade or crawlspace foundations is achieved by applying the appropriate construction techniques to the different foundation segments of the building. | | | The model building standards and techniques listed in section 9.0 are designed primarily for control of radon in new one- and two family dwellings and other residential buildings three stories or less in height. |
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http://www.epa.gov/iaq/radon/pubs/newconst.html
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| | Foundations |
| | Slab-on-grade foundations Slab-on-grade foundations are a building practice whereby the foundation for the structure is... | | | Koch Family Foundations The Koch Family Foundations, consisting of the David H. Koch Foundation, the Charles G. Koch Ch... | | | Foundations of mathematics The term " foundations of mathematics " is sometimes used for certain fields of philosophy of... |
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/topics/foundations.html
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| | NEW YORK SCRAPERS - EARLY CENTURY II |
| | After several redesigns, one higher than the other, finally to exceed the rivalling Metropolitan Life Tower, the foundations were laid in August 1911 and, at the rate of one and a half storeys a week, the 60-storey building was completed two years later. | | | At the time of its completion, the 107 m tall building was the tallest in NYC north of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower near Madison Square. | | | This building impressed Josif Stalin so much that the Moscow University main building (1949-1953) was later based on it -- as well as, in general, the whole grandiose public building style in the Soviet Union. |
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http://www.greatgridlock.net/NYC/nyc1a.html
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| | Learning Lab - Topical Resource List Capacity Building for Nonprofit Organizations: A Resource List |
| | Among other findings, she determined that evaluation of capacity building efforts has been primarily at the initiative of foundations grants. | | | Defining capacity building as "the creation, expansion, or upgrading of a stock of desired qualities and features called capabilities that could be continually drawn on over time," the author points out that capacity building is not just a new name for training and development, though those educational efforts are a component of it. | | | Capacity building, that is, strengthening organizations, is but one aspect of solidifying civil society in the world. |
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http://fdncenter.org/learn/topical/capacity.html
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| | Biographies of Presenters Participation About the Symposium Community foundations: Symposium on a global movement |
| | She has also been involved in evaluations of community foundations, including the evaluation of the Mott-funded support programme for Community Foundations in Slovakia (2002), and is currently undertaking the evaluation of a community foundation endowment building program in the UK. | | | She is currently providing support and advice to community foundations on behalf of the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal, assisting the establishment of two urban community foundations for Philanthropy Australia and working on tax reform to improve the operating environment for community foundations. | | | She was a senior staff member of the first community foundation in Russia, the Togliatti Community Foundation, which overcame overwhelming odds against its creation in the turbulent post-soviet environment and has since become a model for community foundations in Russia and Central Eastern Europe. |
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http://www.cfsymposium.org/about_participation_bios.html
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| | Allianz - Allianz lead insurer of world's tallest residential building |
| | To safely cater for the building's height, 45-meter-deep foundations were laid, and the building was aerodynamically designed to withstand onshore ocean winds of up to 200 kilometers per hour. | | | When construction concluded, and the building opened, the building owners and their broker Aon again chose Allianz as lead insurer. | | | And that's not all for the impressive stats regarding the building. |
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http://www.allianz.com/azcom/dp/cda/0,,1001619-44,00.html
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| | Building and Health Codes |
| | The Uniform Building Code sets standards for: foundations, building materials, design, size and location of rooms, means of exits, windows and ventilation, fireproofing in construction, load and stress of materials for particular purposes, chimneys, stairways and guards, sanitary equipment, plumbing, and electricity. | | | Building and health codes, like zoning ordinances, are included in the right of the government to regulate individual land use for the health, safety, and general welfare of the people. | | | Plans shall include a plot showing the location of the proposed building and of every existing building on the property. |
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http://www.motherearthnews.com/library/1974_July_August/Building_and_Health_Codes
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| | HistoryLink Essay: Olympia Capitol -- a Snapshot History of the Building |
| | The architects solution: "To provide a group of buildings; the principal one would be placed upon the existing foundations. | | | After it was agreed that Flaggs foundations could be expanded, the Legislative Building was begun. | | | Flagg naturally assumed that his commission to design the Olympia building was still in effect. |
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http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=5443
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| | F-4 Foundations Station Area Foundations Form: Unit "B" Tower Building - Prospect Ave. | | | T-9 Tower Building Foundation Reports (Caisson Record), 1926 | | | Tower Building Extra Copies of Specifications and Notices |
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http://www.csuohio.edu/CUT/part1.htm
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| | CPP Research Design Theory Building (1997) |
| | Semmes, C. Foundations of an Afrocentric Social Science: Implications for Curriculum Building, Theory, and Research In Black Studies. | | | Koetting, J. R., & Januszewski, A. Theory Building and Educational Technology: Foundations for Reconceptualization. | | | This paper describes and explains three needed developments for building a foundation from which knowledge unique to a profession of educational administration can emerge and thus improve school effectiveness. |
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http://www.positivepractices.com/ResearchDesign/TheoryBuilding1997.html
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| | Building Envelopes Program Home Page |
| | Our program is divided into two parts: building envelope research, which focuses on the structural elements that enclose a building (walls, roofs and foundations), and materials research, which concentrates on the materials within the envelope systems (such as insulation). | | | The building envelope provides the thermal barrier between the indoor and outdoor environment, and its elements are the key determinants of a building's energy requirements that result from the climate where it is located. | | | The Building Envelopes Program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is a program within the Buildings Technology Center (BTC), the premier U.S. research facility devoted to developing technologies that improve the energy efficiency and environmental compatibility of residential and commercial buildings. |
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http://www.ornl.gov/roofs+walls
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| | NEW YORK SCRAPERS - EARLY CENTURY II |
| | The building of foundations for the tower involved the use of sunken caissons, below-ground, pressurized excavation wells, to prevent water from seeping into the working area. | | | As early as in 1898 Flagg had suggested that only the lower parts of a tall building should be allowed to occupy the area of the whole plot, and that the tower should be restricted to one quarter of the plot area. | | | Flagg, who had also designed the previous, cast-iron, Art Nouveau style Singer Loft Building (built between 1902-1904) at 561 Broadway in SoHo, called the old building "Little Singer" to distinguish it from the new, expanded premises. |
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http://www.greatgridlock.net/NYC/nyc1a.html
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| | Unique Headquarters |
| | The most conspicuous features of the building are the eight groups of four aluminium-clad steel columns, which rise from the foundations up through the main structure, and the five levels of triangular suspension trusses which are locked into these masts. | | | By the use of bridge engineering techniques, and by locating all services in prefabricated modules hung on the east and west sides of the building, Foster eliminated the need for a central core, creating large, unobstructed floor areas that are the key to the building's flexibility and efficiency. | | | A highly advanced and unobtrusive security system is in operation throughout the building. |
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http://www.hsbc.com.hk/hk/about/head.htm
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| | Auditorium Building, Chicago |
| | The building's foundations settled two and a half feet into the boggy soil, causing parts of the ground floor to slope. | | | The building opened in 1889 and was completed in February 1890, making it the oldest surviving high-rise building in Chicago. | | | Although the Civic Opera Building serves as Chicago's primary opera house because of its superior backstage facilities, the theater space here has more seats and even better acoustics. |
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http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu?id=117207
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| | Law of Philanthropy Resources : Instruction : IU Law |
| | Association of Small Foundations is committed to building and strengthening small foundation philanthropy by providing quality programs, products and services to foundations with few or no staff. | | | The IGA is a membership organization of private foundations (corporate foundations, family foundations, etc.), community foundations and other organizations dedicated to advancing philanthropy throughout Indiana. | | | The Philanthropy Roundtable is a national association of more than 600 individual donors, corporate giving representatives, foundation staff and trustees, and trust and estate officers. |
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http://www.law.indiana.edu/instruction/purcell/3554/resources/index.shtml
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