scholarly journals Sustainable Recovery of Architectural Heritage: The Experience of a Worksite School in San Salvador

2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 608
Author(s):  
Silvia Santini ◽  
Vittoria Borghese ◽  
Mario Micheli ◽  
Erick Orellana Paz
Keyword(s):  
Development Cooperation ◽  
Construction Site ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
San Salvador ◽  
Sustainable Implementation ◽  
Contextual Framework ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Sustainable Recovery ◽  
The City ◽  
Design Construction

This paper presents the experience of both interdisciplinary and sustainable implementation of an educational construction site for the recovery of the architectural heritage in Central America. Rey Prendes House is representative of one hundred and forty-five houses made of wood, stamped steel sheet, and deployé that are located in the historical center of San Salvador. Its origin is linked to historical events, such as the strong migration of foreigners to El Salvador in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the presidential decrees that encouraged the reconstruction of the city with anti-seismic materials as a result of the earthquakes of 1873 and 1917. More recently, since 2017, Rey Prendes House has been included in the project funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation. In this paper, the phases of the survey are documented with both materials and degradation analyses, the new design construction with BIM technology for the organization of the educational construction site, the creation of offices and laboratories for restoration and treatments of timber and metal details. Moreover, the study provides a contextual framework with the aim of describing the policies and the projects implemented, highlighting the adopted strategies, the results achieved, and outlining the path followed towards the design solutions for sustainable rehabilitation relating to future use.

scholarly journals Study on the technology of grouting and reinforcing the foundation of a railway bridge above shallow old mine goaf

2018 ◽  
Vol 169 ◽  
pp. 01041
Author(s):  
Hui-Quan Sui ◽  
Chun-Yuan Bait
Keyword(s):  
Fast Track ◽  
Construction Technology ◽  
Construction Site ◽  
Railway Bridge ◽  
Foundation Treatment ◽  
Pressure Grouting ◽  
Dip Angle ◽  
Bridge Foundation ◽  
The City ◽  
Design Construction

The city fast track railway bridge studied in this paper is located above an old mined out area. There is a 1500m2 underground goaf in the construction site with a depth of 30.8~53.2m, the seam thickness is 2.0~2.5m and the dip angle is 50~63 degrees. Although the mine has been abandoned for many years, there are still a lot of underground cavities. Collapse pits occurred on the surface occasionally till this day, especially during the rainy season. In order to make the design safe and reliable, drilling pressure grouting technique is proposed to fill and reinforce the foundation of the site. Proposed technique is tested by several experiments in simulated underground mined out area for the foundation treatment. The technical design, construction technology, grouting and reinforcement effect of the project are studied and summarized. The results of the experiment showed a stable and safe bridge foundation has been achieved. The proposed technique was then applied to on site experiment and pasted all tests.

scholarly journals Archeological Investigations at the Laredo Cemetery Site (41WB22), Webb County, Texas

1981 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary McReynolds
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Construction Site ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The City ◽  
Trench Excavation

In April, May and June of 1980, Prewitt and Associates, Inc. conducted archeological monitoring and excavations in specified areas of 41WB22, a late nineteenth and early twentieth century cemetery in the City of Laredo, Webb County, Texas. These investigations were directly solely towards locating and removing graves exposed by pit and trench excavation activities at the construction site of the Laredo Transit Operating Facilities. The result was the accumulation of data regarding the disinterment of twenty-two graves which contained twenty-three individuals; six of these were partially or totally removed during backhoe excavations prior to the initiation of archeological monitoring, and seventeen were systematically exposed, recorded and removed after the commencement of monitoring. An additional thirteen grave outlines were detected and their locations recorded but their contents were not exhumed.

scholarly journals Temperature, Disease, and Death in London: Analyzing Weekly Data for the Century from 1866 to 1965

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-41
Author(s):  
W. Walker Hanlon ◽  
Casper Worm Hansen ◽  
Jake Kantor
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
Mortality Data ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Infant Deaths ◽  
Digestive Diseases ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Using novel weekly mortality data for London spanning 1866-1965, we analyze the changing relationship between temperature and mortality as the city developed. Our main results show that warm weeks led to elevated mortality in the late nineteenth century, mainly due to infant deaths from digestive diseases. However, this pattern largely disappeared after WWI as infant digestive diseases became less prevalent. The resulting change in the temperature-mortality relationship meant that thousands of heat-related deaths—equal to 0.9-1.4 percent of all deaths— were averted. These findings show that improving the disease environment can dramatically alter the impact of high temperature on mortality.

Travels of Italian Positive School around the racialization of immigration-crime nexus

2021 ◽  
pp. 146247452110312
Author(s):  
Federico Luis Abiuso
Keyword(s):  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The City ◽  
Demographic Growth ◽  
Immigration And Crime

Between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the City of Buenos Aires (Argentina) had a significant demographic growth due to the strong weight of the migratory component. This article focuses on describing the theoretical frameworks deployed by criminologists and related experts to “racialize” the links between immigration and crime in Archivos de Criminología, Medicina Legal, Psiquiatría y Ciencias Afines, a journal published between 1902 and 1913. In so doing, and inspired by the Southern criminology proposals and reflections, I propose to analyze the criminological travels related to the Italian Positive School, to detail the grounds the thematic links between immigration and crime were based on and, in turn, to empirically illustrate different arguments around criminology as a Northern discipline.

Oosterweel – from an underground and even underwater road infrastructure plan to an urban transformation project

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luc Hellemans
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Flow ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Good Reason ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Construction Site ◽  
Successful Completion ◽  
Road Infrastructure ◽  
Living Space ◽  
The City ◽  
Made In

<p>For the coming ten years, the heart of Europe will turn into a gigantic construction site for works on one of the largest hubs of the continent: Antwerp. The Oosterweel Link is the project whereby the motorway ring around Antwerp is undergoing a metamorphosis to reinvigorate traffic flow and add living space to the City. The project had come to a standstill for several years as a result of protests by assertive citizens, but was given a second lease of life following a large-scale participation project.</p><p>To ensure its successful completion, unparalleled efforts are being made in the field and in the area of digitization. It is therefore with good reason that in Belgium the project is referred to as “the construction site of the century”.</p>

scholarly journals ANALYTICAL AND NUMERICAL METHODS FOR DETERMINING THE CARRYING CAPACITY OF A PILE BARETT ON WEAK SOILS IN DEEP PITS

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 94-101
Author(s):  
Rashid Mangushev ◽  
Nadezhda Nikitina ◽  
Hieu Le Trung ◽  
Ivan Tereshchenko
Keyword(s):  
Bearing Capacity ◽  
Numerical Test ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Construction Site ◽  
Weak Soils ◽  
Geological Conditions ◽  
Full Scale Tests ◽  
Soil Excavation ◽  
Deep Pits ◽  
The City

The article provides an analysis of the bearing capacity of barrett piles in difficult geological conditions at a construction site in the city of Hanoi, Vietnam based on the results of analytical calculations according to Russian building codes, mathematical modeling and field full-scale tests. The paper describes a numerical test of a single barrette for Mohr-Coulomb and Hardening Soil models in the Midas GTS NX software package. The bearing capacity of a barrette in soft soils is also proposed to be determined by an analytical solution for calculating the settlement of a single pile, taking into account the unloading of the pit after soil excavation. The results of full-scale tests at the site of future construction, graphs of "load-settlement" of the barrette head from the applied vertical load and the general assessment of the bearing capacity of the barret pile by various methods are shown.

scholarly journals Hotel design and adaptive reuse: From historic palaces to the city’s dilapidated structures

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marko Nikolic ◽  
Nadja Kurtovic-Folic ◽  
Aleksandar Milojkovic
Keyword(s):  
Historic Buildings ◽  
Historical Buildings ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Popular Approach ◽  
Alternative Models ◽  
Hotel Design ◽  
Historic Structures ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

At the time of changing economic circumstances, adaptation and conversion of historic structures is an increasingly popular approach. Some historical buildings are very suitable for the revitalization into the modern hotels. The paper analyzes the relationship of the hotel, the city and its architectural heritage, as well as some of the factors that led to the eruption of alternative models of hotels, shown through a series of successful solutions. Many challenges of hotel design in historic buildings are listed and corresponding solutions are offered. Some methodological directions are indicated, and certain guidelines and principles for further activities in this field are formulated. In conclusion their applicability in practice is discussed, and certain disadvantages and limitations are listed.

scholarly journals El Salvador

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (84) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Dominican Republic ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Central America ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Data Series ◽  
National Accounts ◽  
San Salvador ◽  
Reserve Bank ◽  
The City

A Technical Assistance (TA) Mission from the Regional Technical Assistance Center for Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic, visited the city of San Salvador, El Salvador, on August 13–24, 2018, to provide TA to the Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador (BCRES) on compiling annual accounts by institutional sectors (AAIS) from 2014 onwards, as part of the data series from the base year of 2005. In March 2018, the BCRES published a dataset of quarterly and annual national accounts series by economic activity; a monthly volume indicator; backcasted series from 1990–2014; and Supply and Use Tables (SUT) from 2005 and 2014, with a base year of 2005. As part of the dataset to be prepared and disseminated in the new 2005 base year, the authorities requested TA to compile annual accounts focusing on institutional sectors starting in 2014.

scholarly journals Car Park House Share: Reclaiming Wellington's Car Parking Buildings

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Luke Dodd
Keyword(s):  
Housing Stock ◽  
Car Ownership ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
High Demand ◽  
Car Sharing ◽  
Collaborative Consumption ◽  
Car Park ◽  
Time Share ◽  
The City ◽  
A Current

<p>This thesis anticipates that inner city car parking buildings will become vacant as new car ownership models, such as car sharing, reduce the number of cars parked in cities. “Collaborative consumption” is changing the way that consumers own goods to a shared method where ownership is outsourced and goods become cheaper and more efficient to use. Car sharing is one such service where technology provides the basis for it to operate. High demand for housing in the Wellington CBD and a current housing stock shortfall provides an opportunity to adaptively re-use this vacant infrastructure for time share housing for transient workers, using the collaborative consumption model.  This research proposes that the conversion of carparking buildings into shared housing schemes is valid, and explores this by investigating what the consequences of car sharing might be on the city and how people interact with this infrastructure at a street scale. The thesis then explores the architectural possibility of how housing can make use of existing infrastructure for a new use. It explores the pedestrian reclamation of the parking building while acknowledging the architectural heritage of the car parking typology.</p>

scholarly journals Change of Meaning in Space and Form of Contemporary Karo Architecture

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 121-131
Author(s):  
Mohammed Nawawiy Loebis ◽  
Imam Faisal Pane ◽  
Wahyu Abdillah ◽  
Aurora S. Lubis
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Place Of Residence ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Fertile Soil ◽  
The Times ◽  
North Sumatra ◽  
The City

Karo Plateau is one of the most valuable assets for North Sumatra Province, Indonesian. In addition to fertile soil and producing good quality vegetables and fruit, this plain also has architectural heritage to be proud of. Several villages up to now can be seen and visited which stores various Karo architectural works including some traditional buildings and houses. Change with the times, the movement of people also occurs for various reasons. The development of the city in this province makes the villagers look for livelihood in the city. However, the inheritance of ancestors was still held firmly to the present with a different format. The Karo family currently lives in shophouse and is no longer in a traditional house and they have a business there. The perception of space in traditional houses really carried over in their daily lives. Using qualitative methods, this article explains the interpretation of the different perceptions of Karo people regarding the space and form of their place of residence. However, the essence or meaning that exists in the traditional Karo architecture is still approved until now in a different form and format.

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