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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Firehouse"”.
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Concrete and Comfort, Urban Firehouse
… analysis identified the potential need for a Firehouse. This building type allowed the opportunity to explore the use of concrete for vehicles as well as people. Can concrete, maligned for being cold and harsh, hold a building and its uses in comfort and beauty?
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Response of an unreinforced masonry building during the Loma Prieta earthquake
… is a two-story historic building and former firehouse located in downtown Gilroy, California. The structure was built in 1890 and it is one of the first URM buildings that has been both instrumented and subjected to a moderate earthquake in U.S. history. Recorded peak ground accelerations …
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Architectural Mutualism: A Marriage of Old and New
… architecturally significant, turn of the century firehouse located in northwest Washington, DC. This architectural endeavor seeks to find a mutually respectful balance between old and new architecture while highlighting the clear differences in building materials, design aesthetic, and …
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Designing an Emergency Traffic Signal System (ETSS): A Case Study of an Intersection Along U.S.1, Fairfax County, Virginia
Access to highways from a local firehouse is a major problem for emergency services. Motorists often do not see flashing lights or hear sirens from the approaching emergency vehicles (EV) until emergency vehicles reach the highway entrance, often too late to take appropriate action. Many locations …
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Depressive symptoms and metabolic syndrome risk factors in male and female Coloradan firefighters
… firefighters, low female sample sizes, acute firehouse incidents, the "healthy worker effect," increased resilience levels, or time allotted to pursuing physical fitness during shift hours. Further study with other variable relationships, larger sample sizes and following critical firehouse …
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Analysis of the characteristics of emergency vehicle operations in the Washington D.C. Region
… characteristics depending on the proximity of a firehouse to an intersection and other factors. It is proposed that future efforts build upon this research to develop warrants to be used in determining the appropriateness of installing preemption systems at signalized intersections.