Fire and Life Safety Systems at Washington Park Station: North America's Deepest Underground Transit Station

1996 ◽  
Vol 1521 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-158
Author(s):  
Patty L. Fordyce
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Life Safety ◽  
Light Rail ◽  
Rail System ◽  
Transit Station ◽  
Underground Station ◽  
Safety Systems ◽  
And Control ◽  
Rail Station

Tri-Met is building an extension of its MAX Light Rail System in Portland, Oregon. The extension includes a tunnel 4.8 km (3 mi) long with an underground station under the Washington Park Zoo. Washington Park station will be the deepest underground light rail station in North America when it opens for service in September 1998. A fire or other incident in the tunnel or platform area can have serious consequences for passengers waiting for trains on the platform and for those on the trains. Fire and life safety systems will play a significant role in ensuring the safety of all passengers. The systems are required to detect and control the incident, notify passengers when there is an incident in the tunnel or platform area, and provide safe egress of passengers. The fire and life safety systems that have been designed for Washington Park station and the decisions that became the basis for the design of the systems are discussed.

Daylighting Strategies in Iranian Vernacular Residential Buildings in Hot and Dry Climate

2015 ◽  
Vol 747 ◽  
pp. 329-332
Author(s):  
Elham Maghsoudi Nia ◽  
Titi Hajihasani ◽  
Mohd Yazid Mohd Yunos ◽  
Nordin Abdul Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Design Phase ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Shading Devices ◽  
And Control

Daylighting strategies and control of it, plays a significant role in energy efficiency and provision of visual comforts in buildings. This study conducted a review of literature and observation in a hot and dry region of Iran in order to investigate daylighting strategies and control of it by shading devices in the vernacular residential buildings. The results show thatdaylight in vernacular rooms was provided through door, window, Rozan, Moshabak, and Goljam. These components were equipped with thevertical and horizontalshading devices such as Orsi, Sarsayeh, Tabeshband and Kharakpoushto control the sunlight. The vernacular lighting strategy was in response to the energy efficiency and provided visual comfort.The vernacular concepts and schemes still can be adopted and reused by architects and developers. The study recommends appropriate daylight schemes and shading devices in design phase to achieve energy efficiency in new residential buildings.

RETAILER’S SLOGAN IN THE FUNCTION OF PRICE IMAGE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jelena Franjković ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Price Level ◽  
Marketing Mix ◽  
Consumer Perception ◽  
Successful Management ◽  
High Turnover ◽  
And Control ◽  
Price Image

The image of the retail brand and the price image of the retailer are of significant importance for achieving a competitive advantage and long-term strengthening of the overall image. Retailers’ slogans should reflect their overall strategy and facilitate and consolidate the desired positioning in the minds of customers, ie consumers. The paper studies retailers with predominantly food products, i.e., high-turnover products. Retailers who sell products of different brands find it more difficult to manage and control the positioning of their brand, and the price image also plays a significant role in this. This paper aims to investigate and compare consumer perception of retailers’ slogans and their price image. A primary survey was conducted with persons participating in the purchase of groceries for their household and included the top five retailers in the Croatian market. The results showed that the slogan of retailers can play an important role in the successful management of the price image. The compliance of the perception of the price image of retailers by the respondents with the associations of their slogans to the price level was noted. Finally, it is concluded that the harmonization of all elements of the retail marketing mix facilitates and strengthens the desired positioning in the minds of consumers, and thus the price image.

scholarly journals SECRECY, PUBLICITY AND POWER: STRATEGIES OF OCCULT PRACTITIONERS AND UNIVERSITY MANAGERS

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
F Wood
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
Power Strategies ◽  
Market Driven ◽  
And Control ◽  
Magical Beliefs

Various mystical, magical beliefs and practices, including some of those in the Transkei region of the Eastern Cape, are bound up with secrecy and mystery, exerting part of their influence by this means. This has certain metaphorical parallels with the way in which various managerial systems in market-driven, corporatised universities in South Africa and elsewhere tend to employ obscurity and mystification as a form of power and control. However, there are possible ways of transcending confinement within the verbal-ideological control mechanisms of corporate managerialism, with their shadowy, opaque qualities that sow confusion and bring about disempowerment, and the study of folklore can play a significant role in this regard. 

Crowd Planning and Preparation

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
William O’Toole ◽  
Dr Stephen Luke ◽  
Travis Semmens ◽  
Dr Jason Brown ◽  
Andrew Tatrai
Keyword(s):  
Life Safety ◽  
Contingency Planning ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
Safety Issues ◽  
Crowd Management ◽  
Planning Methods ◽  
Risk Areas ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
And Control

This chapter reviews planning methods and practices. Significant work has been published and used for long periods on planning methods. Preplanning is essential due to the life safety factors that a crowd can develop in situ. Planning can be considered in two phases. Information and background planning essential to communicate facts and identify risk areas in crowd management and operational planning. This then provides resourcing and contingency planning once the operation is in place. Like military operations both phases are important, however in many crowd situations operational and contingency planning is given less scrutiny. This is because the plans are normally scrutinised by authorities, councils, government, venue or land owners and they are more comfortable with pre-information type plans that inform them of the context background and communication flows. How the crowds are managed by security contractors is not usually an area they are experienced in, hence less attention is paid to these areas. The aim of this chapter is to provide enough knowledge for all event stakeholders to review and discuss practical implementation issues in security deployment and control. Planning and preparation requires an increased focus for crowd management because the emerging behaviour from the collective requires more options to be considered and prepared for. As crowds can cause life safety issues and because agents and systems can interact to exaggerate interactions and responses quickly, preparation and contingency planning is vital. Crowd risk assessments have to be conducted to understand and communicate the magnitude of the problems that can occur. If the consequences of the crowd activity are significant to the risk appetite of the organiser then response methods and measures should be developed and implemented. An example of this would be preparing additional signage, barriers and guards to divert pedestrians away or around potential bottlenecks when the flow becomes too congested.

scholarly journals First interception of the greenhouse pest Echinothrips americanus Morgan, 1913 (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) in Slovakia

2009 ◽  
Vol 44 (No. 4) ◽  
pp. 155-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Varga ◽  
P.J. Fedor
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Host Range ◽  
Botanical Garden ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Pest Species ◽  
Wide Host Range ◽  
Short Time ◽  
And Control

<i>Echinothrips americanus</i> Morgan, 1913, is one of the pest species that expanded their area of distribution in a relatively short time. Being native to the eastern parts of North America, its first European interception was recorded in 1989. Since then it has invaded greenhouses in most European countries, including Slovakia, where it was first recorded in inspected material at the Botanical garden in Košice. As a polyphagous thrips with a wide host range it may induce damage mainly on ornamentals, although if low in numbers it can be easily overlooked. The species is a suitable example where preventive steps against its spread have not been sufficient enough which, therefore, demands further monitoring. Remarks on morphology, identification, economical importance and control are also given.

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