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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Building Trades"”.
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What can unions do? : examples from the Massachusetts building trades
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1985.
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Training in the Historic Building Trades of New Orleans: An Inventory and Analysis
The unique cultural techniques of the historic building trades of New Orleans are currently at risk of being lost due to a lack of new master craftsmen and the demise of the current generation of master craftsmen. The purpose of this study is twofold: to analyze the historic transmission of the …
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Traditional building trades and crafts in changing socio-economic realities and present aesthetic values : case studies in Syria
Traditional building trades and crafts made a major contribution to the quality and the character of architecture in the past. The advent of industrialization in the name of modernization eclipsed these building trades and crafts and caused rapid changes of the urban character as well as of the …
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A critically-engaged syncretic language narrative of two building trades students and their families: developing identity-resonance for self-actualising minorities’ right to be, believe and belong.
… it symbolically signifies the identity of two FE Building Trade students, their families and me. A social constructionist epistemology frames how the mutually- constituted and inter-related meanings and semiotics of the mediating contexts, are understood. Data elicitation occurs as a decoupage of …
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Architect / Builder: Builder / Architect
… Architects traditionally evolved from the building trades with a fundamental understanding of the principals behind construction. Architects have since evolved into a profession based in academics, not in actual tacit knowledge. The current relationship between architects and builders is …
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Breaking down barriers, building up communities : implementing project labor agreements with targeted hiring goals
… provide workers historically excluded from the Building Trades with access to jobs on publicly funded construction projects. Studies of best practices recommend the use of: project labor agreements (i.e., contracts between project owners and unions that are negotiated prior to the selection of …
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The formative years of the trade union movement in Saskatchewan 1905 - 1920
… the craft unions, and more specifically of the building trades which expanded to meet the demands of a new and rapidly developing province. Like the people of the province, generally these unions expressed great optimism for the future. At times their expansion showed a distinct lack of rhyme or …
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Medieval Islamic and Gothic architectural drawings : masons, craftsmen and architects
… Central Asia. The hierarchies within the building trades, the roles and responsibilities of designers and their education will be among the topics that will be discussed.
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Contextual materiality : the Jewell Golf and Country Club project
… Students from Iowa Central Community College Building Trades Program in Fort Dodge were approached to be a part of the project. There was a blending of ideas and a project in a small, rural community centrally located between the two schools was considered. The Jewell Area Development …
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Job characteristics of construction craftsmen and their relationships to affective work outcomes
1 PDF file (ix, 116 pages)
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The Graduate Student Anchored Project : a new approach to incentivizing multifamily development in the City of Boston
… which might be needed from the city, building trades union and/or university master lessees to ensure such feasibility -- through the use of a pro forma model specifically designed to accommodate this type of real estate development analysis.
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Mental health and wellbeing supports for construction workers: Current initiatives and potential for the future
… there was a lack of research which asked building trades and construction workers what mental health and wellbeing supports are currently available to them. The aim of this research project was to gain clarification about what was currently available within the participants’ workplace, as …
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The acquisition and use of Norwegian timber in seventeenth century Scotland, with reference to the principal building works of James Baine, His Majesty's Master Wright
… of Norwegian timber imports on architecture, building works and their organisation in seventeenth century Scotland. Using a wide variety of Scottish, Danish and Norwegian sources, it first investigates trends in timber imports to Scotland from Norway during the late sixteenth and seventeenth …
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Factors affecting cost overrun at construction projects in Somalia
The construction industry plays an influential role in the socio-economy of a country. In Somalia, the construction industry is one of the essential industries participating significantly in the growth of socio-economic development. Somalia is facing a significant issue of cost overrun in …
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In-success factor for project management in high-rise building project
… important for project management in high rise building project success to prevent the project delay, however the main issues that can lead the project to fail is lack of communication among the project team. This study identifies the project management practices in high rise building, success …
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Sistema de Tareo - Cappazo
In construction companies, labor represents between 30% and 40% of the total cost of the work. The leading company in this area in Peru managed the workforce through a manual workflow, with many operational activities, subject to errors, without traceability and without being able to track the …
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The Polish community in Scotland
… in Britain without serious opposition from the trades unions, the Labour government instituted a policy of controlled resettlement through the Polish Resettlement Corps, the Polish Resettlement Act of 27 March, 1947, and the European Volunteer Workers scheme. Above all, Polish servicemen under …