scholarly journals Turfs and timbers

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morten Fischer Mortensen ◽  
Claudia Baittinger ◽  
Jonas Christensen ◽  
Anne Birgitte Nielsen ◽  
Søren Nielsen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Cover ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Viking Age ◽  
Data Modelling ◽  
Pollen Data

Viking Age ring fortresses were some of the largest construction projects in Danish prehistory. In this article we reconstruct the amount of turf and timber used in the construction of the Borgring ring fortress and estimate the resource area needed to supply the building materials. Using REVEALS pollen data modelling, we quantify the regional oak land cover and estimate the resource area. The results show that even though Borgring was built in an open cultural landscape, sufficient supply of oak for the construction would have been accessible within a few kilometres from the fortress.

scholarly journals Assessing Architecture-and-Landscape Integration as a Basis for Evaluating the Impact of Construction Projects on the Cultural Landscape of Tourist Seaside Resorts

Land ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Wojciech Bal ◽  
Magdalena Czalczynska-Podolska
Keyword(s):  
Construction Projects ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Clear Trend ◽  
Original Culture ◽  
Construction Plans ◽  
The Impact

The coastline of Western Pomerania has natural and cultural assets that have promoted the development of tourism, but also require additional measures to ensure the traditional features and characteristics are protected. This is to ensure that new developments conform to a more uniform set of spatial structures which are in line with the original culture. Today, seaside resorts are characterized by a rapid increase in development with a clear trend towards non-physiognomic architectural forms which continually expand and encroach on land closer to the coastline. This results in a blurring of the original concepts that characterized the founding seaside resort. This study evaluates 11 development projects (including a range of hotels, luxury residential buildings and hotel suites) built in 2009–2020 in the coastal area of Western Pomerania. An assessment of architecture-and-landscape integration for each development project was made, using four groups of evaluation criteria: aesthetic, socio-cultural, functional and locational factors. The study methodology included a historical and interpretative study (iconology, iconography, historiography) and an examination of architecture-and-landscape integration using a pre-prepared evaluation form. Each criterion was first assessed using both field surveys and desk research (including the analysis of construction plans and developer materials), and then compared with the original, traditional qualities of the town. This study demonstrates that it is possible to clearly identify the potential negative impact of tourism development on the cultural landscape of seaside resorts, and provides recommendations for future shaping, management and conservation of the landscape.

Factors of the current growth of the value of investment-and-construction projects implementation in the Russian Federation

2021 ◽  
pp. 4-12
Author(s):  
E.Yu. Vasilyeva
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Price Dynamics ◽  
Current Growth ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Major Factors

The author analyses the factors, which affected the volume of actual costs of investment-and-construction projects in 2020-2021 most of all. The three major factors, including price dynamics in the market of building materials, situation in the market of construction tools and equipment as well as the trends in the transport-and-logistic sphere are considered. The order of modification of the Technique of drawing up the estimate of the contract on the project, caused by the growth of costs for the used materials is described. The conclusions on the prerequisites of the rise in price of the realization value of the construction projects in current and following year are drawn.

scholarly journals THE RISKS AND LIABILITY OF PARTICIPANTS OF A CONSTRUCTION PROCESS FOR DEFECTS OF BUILDING PRODUCTS

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 109-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sigitas Mitkus
Keyword(s):  
Construction Projects ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Building Products ◽  
Construction Contracts ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Mutual Agreement

Sharing of the risk and liability is one of the most important functions of construction contracts. Proper sharing of the risks and liability between the parties of construction contract has a rather big influence on efficiency, quality, and probability of arising disputes between the parties of construction contract in construction projects. A lot of risk exists during the fulfillment of construction projects. One of those risks is the risk of defects of building products. The question of the liability of the parties of construction contract for inappropriate quality of the construction production caused by a bad quality of building products mainly depends on sharing of the risk of defects of building materials in the construction contract. Some aspects of the mentioned risk and liability of the parties of the construction contract might be set by mutual agreement in the construction contract. The other aspects are regulated by imperative norms of the law and the parties of construction contract have not a right to change those imperative conditions of sharing of risks and liability. The article deals with sharing of risk and liability for supplying building products of an improper quality for construction, taking in to account conditions of construction contract, legal regulation and behavior of parties of a construction contract. A tree of forming the alternatives of liability is presented in the article. Liability for supply of defected building products arises not only for parties of a construction contract. The producer (supplier) of building products is responsible for this as well. Variations of liability of the producer (supplier) depending on construction contract conditions are analyzed. A matrix of liability of the producer (supplier) of building products is presented in the article.

Design & Research of the Traditional Waterfront Interface Houses in Shanghai Ecological Transformation - Pudong Ancient Shao Jia Lou Town House

2012 ◽  
Vol 524-527 ◽  
pp. 2667-2673
Author(s):  
Xin Qun Feng ◽  
Chen Du ◽  
Xiao Dong Liu
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Ventilation System ◽  
Folk Culture ◽  
Traditional Architecture ◽  
Natural Landscape ◽  
New Energy ◽  
Local Residents

The natural landscape of the pudong ancient town in Shanghai's waterfront with "bridges, water, people" rich in distinctive cultural landscape has always been popular. Rustic country setting and its rich cultural heritage have attracted many people to want to get to know it. Ancient town in Shanghai have been famous in the world too. "Authenticity" town folk culture is the essence of the town's cultural heritage. On one hand, the attention to the life of local residents and traditional architecture "authenticity" can revitalize traditional cultural heritage, promote tourism development and protection of ancient town. On the other hand, building ecology, energy conservation, and sustainability are the current world trend, most importantly the needs of the world's sustainable economic development. In this paper, taking Shao Jia Lou town house as an example for the transformation of the traditional waterfront interface, based on the waterfront interface environmental features, the adoption of the internal layout of the building materials and re-design the ventilation system, heating systems and new energy sources, ecological transformation has been carefully designed. In addition, some practical design studies have been done regarding the diversification of the use of small space. The precondition of making people aware of China's traditional ecological transformation of the waterfront interface is to extend the traditional culture, ancient town in Shanghai, protect and improve the waterfront environment and raise living standards.

GFRG Panels in Construction: A Potential Solution to Material Limitation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Snehal Ashok Salvi ◽  
Vishal Jadhav ◽  
Nandini Pate ◽  
Vaishali Kamade ◽  
Janhavi Deshpande ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Housing Shortage ◽  
Construction Technique ◽  
Building Technology ◽  
Glass Fiber Reinforced ◽  
Low Income Groups ◽  
Existing Housing ◽  
Timely Delivery

Abstract There is a huge growing requirement of building materials in India due to the existing housing shortage of 24.7 million units mainly for the low-income groups in urban India. Use of rapid techniques for timely delivery of construction projects by adopting fast methodologies and alternate building materials is necessary in India, given the tremendous housing shortage. Further, the construction has to be affordable and also sustainable. The construction technique proposed in this project, by making use of Glass Fiber Reinforced Gypsum (GFRG) panels (with reinforced concrete infilled cavities) to build homes, promises such a solution for rapid affordable mass housing in India. GFRG building system is a rapid building technology composed of prefabricated wall panel load bearing system. GFRG is also an eco-friendly building material which can be manufactured out of either natural or industrial gypsum.

Long-term land-cover/use change in a traditional farming landscape in Romania inferred from pollen data, historical maps and satellite images

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 2193-2207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelica Feurdean ◽  
Catalina Munteanu ◽  
Tobias Kuemmerle ◽  
Anne B. Nielsen ◽  
Simon M. Hutchinson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Cover ◽  
Satellite Images ◽  
Historical Maps ◽  
Pollen Data ◽  
Traditional Farming

scholarly journals Analysis of Elemental Cost Variation of Building Construction Projects in Nigeria

2019 ◽  
pp. 219-228
Author(s):  
Anthony Tochukwu Igwe ◽  
Dr. Abdulganiyu oke
Keyword(s):  
Construction Projects ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
Single Element ◽  
Cost Performance ◽  
Cost Variation ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Government ◽  
Inaccurate Estimate

Cost performance is the fundamental criteria for success of any project. Most projects face huge amount of cost variations in Nigeria construction industry. Its performance is based on the three major parameters which include, cost, time and quality. This research was carried out to analyze elemental cost variation in building construction projects in Abuja Nigeria. Secondary data was obtained for the study and analysed using ANOVA, correlation, and regression. The result shows that the most critical factors that contribute to cost variation include unstable economy, improper planning, inaccurate estimate and fraudulent practice. The study finally recommended the best way of a averting the problem which include stabilization of the economy by the government through monitoring of price, stability of cost of labor and building materials. Contractors should employ qualified and experience staff in order to be able to follow the different technical and managerial aspects of the project. The study has concluded that there was no significant difference amongst the variation in the costs of selected groups of building elements. This was based on analysis of variance results. This meant that notwithstanding the magnitude of changes to elemental costs, no single element could be isolated as being exceptional in terms of cost variations. It was concluded that in terms of degree of influence on change in initial contract sums, the Services elements was ranked 1st, based on an R2 value of 25.2%. Substructure had the least influence on changes in the initial contract sum (R2 value of 6.71%).

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