Mathematical Computations in the Management of Public Construction Work in Mesopotamia (End of the Third and Beginning of the Second Millennium BCE)

2020 ◽  
pp. 201-237
Author(s):  
Martin Sauvage
Keyword(s):  
Construction Work ◽  
The Third ◽  
Second Millennium Bce ◽  
Public Construction

The Elders of Early Dilmun

2019 ◽  
pp. 220-239
Author(s):  
Alexis T. Boutin ◽  
Benjamin W. Porter
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Persian Gulf ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Mortuary Archaeology ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
Adult Men ◽  
The Third ◽  
Second Millennium Bce ◽  
The University

This chapter draws on bioarchaeology and mortuary archaeology to investigate three adult men in a brief case study from Early Dilmun, a Bronze Age polity that spanned the western edge of the Arabian/Persian Gulf at the end of the third and the beginning of the second millennium BCE. We draw our evidence from the Peter B. Cornwall Collection at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology on the University of California, Berkeley campus. Cornwall (1913–1972) excavated this evidence from Bahrain during his expedition to the region in 1940 and 1941. Cornwall later analyzed these mortuary contexts in several works—including his doctoral dissertation and a handful of articles—and then eventually deposited the skeletal remains and objects in the Hearst Museum. Since 2008, we have been analyzing and publishing materials from this collection under the auspices of the Dilmun Bioarchaeology Project. Using this evidence, we demonstrate both the possibilities and limitations of investigating masculinity in one specific ancient Near Eastern society.

Onsite Proactive Construction Defect Management Using Mixed Reality Integrated With 5D Building Information Modeling

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-34
Author(s):  
Pratheesh Kumar M. R. ◽  
Reji S. ◽  
Abeneth S. ◽  
Pradeep K.
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Building Information Modeling ◽  
Mixed Reality ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
Construction Site ◽  
Construction Work ◽  
Defect Management ◽  
The Third ◽  
Building Information

Defect management in civil construction work is crucial. This work is aimed at analyzing the conventional method of construction defect management and to bring out a framework for integrating 5D building information modeling with mixed reality. This work is divided into three parts. The first part is the integration of 5D building information modeling with augmented reality that helps to understand the architectural concepts and visualize the workflow onsite. The second part of the work is to develop a user-defined target-based marker-less augmented reality to send screenshots of augmented models and exact progress of work from construction site to engineers working in other locations. The third part of the work is to integrate virtual reality to enable virtual tours of the real site that will be useful for the customers to visualize the building virtually and for the builders to promote sales.

scholarly journals Prinsip Hukum Dalam Penyusunan dan Pelaksanaan Kontrak Engineering Procurement Construction (Kontrak "EPC")

Yuridika ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 188
Author(s):  
Dwi Mariyati
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Engineering Design ◽  
Construction Work ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Normative Study ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
The Third ◽  
Legal Principle ◽  
Contract Type ◽  
Building Activities

The EPC Contract is the form of contract that is currently used by the contractors to take over construction work. The EPC Contract having three activities, the engineering design , procurement and construction execution, that are integrated. For the activity EPC Contract is the Single Contractor must be responsible for the design of jobs and accuracy, and requirement of the owner project, until construction. This contract type commonly have a high risk, the finals price, and the accuracy of the period for implementation. Characteristic of EPC Contract is industry building activities that are proces plant and industry plant. The purpose of which are going to achieved in EPC Contract to preset specifications to fulfill the requirements specified in terms of the time, the quality and expenses.The main issues in this legal research are the legal principle that is used in the preparation of EPC Contract and the principle of law in the implementation of  EPC  Contract  in Indonesia. The type of research is the normative study and the approach of this research having four methods approach among others are statute approach, conceptual approach, cases approach,  and comparative approach.The result of this research there are four the most important among others are the first is legislation, the second is the implementation of regulation, the third is EPC institution procurement and  fourth is the form of EPC Contract.   

Sensational Realism: Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ridvan Askin
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Creative Activity ◽  
Construction Work ◽  
The Third ◽  
Experimental Aesthetics ◽  
The Future ◽  
To Come ◽  
Isabelle Stengers

The third chapter moves away from the more experimental aesthetics of Castillo’s and Ondaatje’s narratives to incorporate an analysis of a formally non-experimental and realist text in order to show that Deleuzian sensations likewise underpin and constitute explicitly representational and verisimilar narration. Tracing the novel’s African American protagonist’s progressive immersion in becoming the chapter draws out how she engages in what Isabelle Stengers has termed speculative constructivism—the facilitation of events—in order to create the future to come. Since the protagonist’s speculative trajectory is created by poetic means it is tantamount to the figuration of the narrative’s very own speculative-creative activity and thus emblematic of narration’s own construction work.

Fieldwork in the Southern Dongola Reach and Third Cataract Region in 2015/2016

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 269-288
Author(s):  
Bogdan Żurawski ◽  
Aneta Cedro ◽  
Mariusz Drzewiecki ◽  
Roman Łopaciuk
Keyword(s):  
Skeletal Remains ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Construction Work ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
The Third ◽  
Physical Anthropologist ◽  
The Temple

The settlement remains surrounding the churches at the sites of Banganarti and Selib continued to be excavated in the 2015/2016 season by a team directed by Bogdan Żurawski. The research focused primarily on the living quarters around the churches and fortifications. An ethnographic survey carried out in Banganarti and Selib, and in the nearby villages documented traditional crafts, such as pottery making, basketry, baking and cooking using traditional techniques and recipes. Conservation and construction work were undertaken simultaneously with preparations for turning the Banganarti and Selib 1 sites into tourist attractions. Skeletal remains from earlier excavation were examined by a physical anthropologist. A survey combined with aerial documentation was carried out on selected archaeological sites in the Southern Dongola Reach (Soniyat, Diffar, Hettani, Bani Israil) and in the Third Cataract Region (Kissenfarki, Fagirinfenti). Short excavations were also conducted in the temple at Soniyat.

CHANGE OF VIBRATION CHARACTERISTICS OF WOODEN BUILDINGS UNDER CONSTRUCTION BASED ON MICRO-TREMOR MEASUREMENTS

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitsuhiro Miyamoto
Keyword(s):  
Stage Structure ◽  
Vibration Characteristics ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Fourth Stage ◽  
Construction Work ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Stage ◽  
Wooden House ◽  
Under Construction

It is important to accurately determine the vibration characteristics of wooden buildings to evaluate their seismic performance. This study aims to determine the vibration characteristics of a wooden house at each construction stage and to clarify the factors in their change based on the micro-tremor measurements. The construction process of the wooden house is divided into four stages. In the first stage, the wooden house consists of only columns and beams. In the second stage, the lattice bearing walls are installed in the first stage structure. In the third stage, roofing is added. In the fourth stage, the exterior and interior finishes for the lattice bearing walls are conducted and the entire construction work is completed. Therefore, we conducted micro-tremor measurements a total of four times. Based on the results of the micro-tremor measurements, the stiffness ratio of each element of the wooden house was estimated. The exterior and interior finishes for the lattice load-bearing walls occupy approximately 50–70 % of the overall stiffness and their effect on the stiffness of the wooden house is very large.

scholarly journals Electronic Reverse Auctions in Public Construction Procurement – Empirical Evidence from the Czech Republic

2016 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 47-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Hanák
Keyword(s):  
Cost Savings ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
Life Cycle Costs ◽  
Construction Work ◽  
Reverse Auctions ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Bid Price ◽  
Public Construction

AbstractElectronic reverse auctions (e-RAs) are considered to be an effective tool for negotiating tender prices and achieving cost savings. Furthermore, if multicritera evaluation is used, it can be expected that e-RAs will also contribute to achieving benefits in other areas, e.g. helping to minimize life-cycle costs. This study aims to analyse the mutual relationships between selected e-RA variables. More specifically, correlation analysis is applied to explore real e-RA data representing public tenders for construction work. This study’s findings reveal that the correlations examined are generally weak or very weak. Furthermore, it has been found that the value of correlation coefficients varies depending on the type of structure, and that public tenders are usually evaluated solely on the basis of the criterion of the lowest bid price. Recommendations for public authorities in using e-RAs in the role of the buyer are also provided at the end of this paper.

Cosmopolitanism and the Construction of Cultural Models in Contemporary Europe

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick O'Mahony
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Models ◽  
Second Step ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Normative Model ◽  
The Third ◽  
Culture Formation ◽  
Public Construction ◽  
Democratic Learning ◽  
The Relationship

This article outlines a cognitive approach towards analysing and evaluating the process of building a transnational normative culture in Europe through a number of steps. In a first step, employing a number of social theory traditions, a brief outline is offered of European transnationalism as a territorial form. The second step, which is oriented by Habermas's idea of democratic learning processes that bridge national and post-national democratic levels, explores the relationship between democratic communication and normative culture formation on the transnational plane. This leads into the third step that outlines the cognitive mechanisms that affect the formation of post-national democracy. These mechanisms will determine the emergence of transnational normative culture understood as a process of forming suitable cultural models, entailing an ontological, epistemological and methodological shift away from a narrowly conceived normative model. Such a normative model bypasses or minimises the cognitive-communicative mechanisms involved in the dynamic, public construction of meaning and validity. The implications of such a revision of perspectives is further developed in a fourth and concluding step by addressing the kind of transnational deliberative-discursive complex required for the needed cognitive innovation that would in turn make possible appropriate normative innovation informed by a cosmopolitan perspective.

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