The building occupies a site with the adjoining Nicola Grosa garden that has been upgraded to a playful space with lawns and became neighbourhood friendly. The entrance hall of the Intesa Sanpaolo building has an access into the garden on the ground floor. The building has been commissioned by the Intesa Sanpaolo Bank. One of Italy’s biggest banks. It has been completely financed by the bank itself and now serves as its headquarters. It is also the main office for the Executive Management team
this section promotes the use of eco-friendly materials sourced from sustainable sources and recycling. Implementation of proper construction waste management with storage, collection and re-use of recyclables and construction formwork and waste are emphasized here. Building materials are used throughout the life cycle of a building, which starts from the construction phase, maintenance and alteration. Materials carry impact on building ranging from appearance, buildability of the building and
was constructed in the 17th century which I consider to be representative of Baroque style in Rome is The Palazzo Barberini, and I am going to talk about its history, description of the palace including the façade, space planning, relationship of construction of the space to its function, and about two rooms chosen from the building. I chose this palace because I find Baroque style very fascinating and inspiring and I think that Palazzo Barberini represents well the style of Baroque, its richness and
to buildings of steel framed construction in the late 19th century, as result of public amazement at the tall buildings being built in large cities like Chicago, New York City. The first steel frame skyscraper was the Home Insurance Building, 10 floors with a height of 42 m in Chicago in 1885. The structural definition of the word "skyscraper" was refined later by architectural historians, based on engineering developments of the 1880s, which enabled the construction of multistory buildings. This
To maintain smooth flow of the Burj Khalifa construction process, the construction work and flow on and off-site were orchestrated in the WAR (Work-Action-Resolution) room. During the construction, a high density, low permeability concrete and cathodic protection system was used in the foundations to minimize any detrimental effects form corrosive chemicals in local ground water. During the pumping process, super-plasticizer is used to render concrete with excellent flow-able properties, to ensure
commonly adopted in the construction of low-rise residential buildings. Explain the factors that designers must consider in the process of choosing an appropriate type of foundation system for a proposed building. Support your answer with full reasons and give examples where appropriate. Student name: Lee Tsun Ming Student number: 54806965 Name of Lecturer: KK Chan What is foundation? Foundation of a building is that the part which direct contact with the ground and which transmits the
usage in the expensive and congested urban area (Gue & Tan, 1998). Good foundation design and construction practice means not only insulating to save energy, but also providing effective structural design as well as moisture, termite, and radon control techniques where appropriate (John, Jeffrey and Kenneth, 1991). Substructure construction work can consider as one of the challenging part during the construction period of high rise building because there are many potential risk exist compare with other
significantly reduces damage to structure and its contents and thereby reduces lateral sway of the building. Shear wall buildings are usually regular in elevation and in plan. Lower floors of some building are being used for commercial use and the buildings are characterized with larger plan dimensions at those floors. There are setbacks at larger
2.2 Floor Sensors In floor sensor technique, sensors are place along the floor known as force platform or instrumented walkways where gait is measured by pressure or force sensors and moment transducers when the subject walks on them. There are two types of floor sensors which are force platforms and pressure measurement systems. Force platforms should be distinguished from pressure measurement systems which, although they too quantify the centre of pressure, do not directly measure the force vector
2.6 Types of Flood There are several different types of floods. Most communities experience only a few of them. Floods are generally grouped into the following types which are riverine flooding, urban drainage, ground failures, fluctuating lake levels and coastal flooding and erosion. 2.6.1 Riverine Flooding When surface water runoff introduced into streams and rivers exceeds the capacity of the natural or constructed channels to accommodate the flow, water overflows the stream banks, spilling