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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Fire Station"”.
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Cape Town Central Fire Station
The fire service is unique in providing for the whole community a form of protection that is beneficial to all. It does not serve any one group of people to the detriment of others, nor can it be manipulated to further political ends. It is an organisation with a highly developed sense of honour, …
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Constructive clarity in a fire station
In understanding the program of a fire station, this project represents much more than a pragmatic excursion into problem solving, but instead focuses on the elements which give my architecture life. The notion of advertising the structure from within, the presence of cores to designate specific …
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Outspan Fire Station: challenging the monumental disregard of the public
Includes abstract.
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Seismic analysis of Fire Station No. One: a historic unreinforced masonry building
… the historical qualities of the structure. Fire Station No. One, Roanoke, Virginia, an unreinforced masonry bearing wall building, is one of the most treasured landmarks in the Roanoke Valley. Completed in 1908, the Fire Station is still operational, serving as a lifeline structure. Built in …
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Building as Witness
A fire station is a building where not too many things happen. But the few that do are either too forgettable or too memorable. This thesis tries to achieve time, innovation and realism. There's a redundancy in this building, in people's actions that makes it memorable. This building is the …
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The Relation between Post-Traumatic Stress and Depression in Korean Firefighter
… of post traumatic stress and depression among fire fighters. Data was collected from 126 male fire fighters with over one year of job experience in a fire station and a 119 safety center from August 23 to August 26, 2013. The level of post-traumatic stress was measured with IES-R-K standardized …
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Materials and Imagination: A Building of Fire and Water
… the relationship between man and the elements, fire and water, this project further develops these ideas by way of the imagination. Man's attempt to form further connections with these elements is often seen as an act of humanization. It is, however, these investigations that allow for such …
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A city hall for Welch, West Virginia
… the need for a new local government building and fire station; (b) to present the findings of a study made to determine the facilities needed to fulfill the requirements of the city government and fire department; (c) to present the findings of a study made to select the best available site; (d) …
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The discourse model for collaborative design: A distributed and asynchronous approach
… collaboration during the conceptual design of a fire station.
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The Effects of Job Stress of Fire Fighters in Gyeonggi Province on Occupational Injuries
… to investigate the effects of job stress of fire fighters on occupational injuries. For this study, we conducted a survey of all employees who work at Gwang Myeong, Gunpo, and Anyang fire station, which are geographically similar and neighboring each other but little different in …
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Tending the Fire of Service: An Empirical Study of Strategies for Integrating Volunteer and Career Firefighters
The local fire station typically is responsible for responding first in an emergency. Emergency response in the era after 11 September 2001 is an important topic to consider. In the big picture, it is a complex web of federal and national resources that are brought to bear on a diverse set of …
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The Effect of Fire Officials' Shift Work and Job Stress on Fatigue
… study was conducted to investigate what effect fire officials' shift work and job stress on fatigue. For that, 473 structuralized questionnaires were administered to the entire fire officials in Yongsan Fire Station including the field firemen working on a two-shift basis and daytime-only fire …
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Frozen tension
… piece comes from architect Zaha Hadid’s 'Vitra Fire Station,' located at the Vitra Furniture Factory in Weil am Rhein, Germany. I find this building full of tension—It does not have the heaviness or the profound stillness found in some other structures. Instead, it conveys a sense of dynamism …
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Economic Welfare Of Firefighting Service In Detroit
… 1 is concerned with the effect of public fire service quality on individual utility. I develop a theoretical model to account for fire risk as a function of socio-economic, housing, and spatial factors. I review relevant literature on certain inherent public fire service issues regarding …
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An exploration of the basis of calculation of 'standards of fire cover' in member states of the European Union and the potential for a rational economic model
… capable of being used to harmonise standards of fire cover within the EU. The model had to take into account social, humanitarian, economic and environmental factors and the built environment in determining an appropriate emergency response by fire brigades to rescues, fires and contamination of …
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Fire department organizational culture: A burning need for change?
The number of firefighters killed in the line of duty has remained relatively unchanged for the past three decades, despite a decrease in the number of fires occurring, a decrease in the number of civilians trapped in fires, and improvements in technology related to firefighter personal protective …
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The development of novel tools for the assessment of UK firefighter nutritional status for use in a multi-component worksite nutrition intervention programme
Firefighters are at elevated risk of cardiovascular disease and myocardial infarction. Overweight and obesity prevalence in this occupational group may be greater than in the general population. This is the first nutrition-based study for UK firefighters, involving 28 fire stations and 575 …