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PERSONAL STATEMENT My interest in the Built Environment field came when I first met with one of Malaysia most successful architect, Hijjas Kasturi back in my early lower secondary. Since then, I’ve developed a great interest in the field of Built Environment, especially Architecture. I am studying Building Surveying because I believe it can build…

When one thinks of St. Sernin and Notre Dame, one tends to think of twobeautiful cathedrals, not to churches that portray two totally different stylesof architecture. Those two styles are, of course, Romanesque in St. Sernin andthe Gothic style of Notre Dame. Some characteristics that these two buildingsshare include quest for height, basic floor plan,…

INTRODUCTION             There have been so many different astounding architectural styles that graced the history of the world. Through the years, many different contributions to architecture have transpired with the rise of different architectural styles. All of these additions vary from structural up to the aesthetics design of every structure. Starting from the ancient beginnings…

The Colosseums building was initiated by the Emperor Vespasian around 72 AD. His boy Titus had control over its completion and the official gap ceremonials in 80 AD. The Colosseum was built near the site of Nero ‘s Domus Aurea “Golden House” . It got its popular name, the Colosseum, because of Nero ‘s giant…

Computers are important communication devices if they could be interconnected so that data from one computer could be transmitted to another computer. This is accomplished by linking computers to form a network and then letting the various networks  interact with each other. However, a key problem here is the presence of devices and media that…

Metaphor and architecture Metaphor comes from Middle Frenchmetaphore ( Old Frenchmetafore, 13c. ) , and straight from Latinmetaphora, from Greekmetaphora ” a transportation, ” particularly of the sense of one word to a different word, literally “ a carrying over, ” frommetapherein ” transportation, carry over ; alteration, alter ; to utilize a word in…

During the 1800s Great Britains empire stretched around the world, and with raw materials easily available to them this way, they inevitably began refining and manufacturing all stages of many new machines and other goods, distributing locally and globally. However, despite being the central workshop of the world, Britain was not producing the highest quality…

According to major supplies, “Use of synthetic fibers for reinforcing concreteis continuously, increasing. The increase has been considerable since 1980, butslowed somewhat in 1990, a year of substantial construction cutbacks. Apparentlythe construction community believes there are advantages in the use of syntheticfibers in concrete.” (Schupack) Synthetic fibers are used to improve crackcontrol in concrete. Some…

ARCHITECHTURE Architecture has predominantly swayed the world in the Prism of its own unique style and patterns depicting the erstwhile social and cultural life and bestowing Nations with the ornaments of crowning glory and Pride. The word ‘architect’ itself is most probably derived from the Greek word Arkhitekton, simply means ‘chief builder’ having born in…

These contributions are then discussed and classified, and a modular architecture for manufacturing scheduling systems is proposed. This proposal updates, extends and refines the well-known architecture proposed earlier by Pinned and Yen’s [Pinned, M. L. , Yen, B. P. -C. , 1997. On the design and development of object-oriented scheduling systems. Annals of Operations Research…