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Building design/construction and related topics.
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Saint Bernadette and Saint Athanasius 10-7-72
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St. Athanasius says,
"I have spoken many, many times through this child and
I say to you now on this day, 'Through this child the
heresies will be fought, and through this child many
things will be brought to light that many men do not
even know are around.' So many men live in what they
call a cubicle. They say, 'I do not want to be disturbed... more »
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New Fixed Beam Calculator is launched
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New Fixed Beam Calculator is now available at
[link]
This is very useful tool to easily calculate fixed end moments,
support reactions, shear force, bending moments etc.
for different loading cases of Fixed beam.
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Internal Multi-Room Views
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Is there an architectural term (eg, "vista") for a situation in which
a building is arranged so that (with all doors open) you can view
multiple rooms, one through another, in sequence, at once?
That is, when standing in room A, you can both see and look through
rooms B and C to room D?
(One might want to widen the farther doors, but that's another... more »
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Revised version of deflection & slope calculator
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Revised version of Deflection & slope calculator for beams is now
available at [link]
with this revised version now you can calculate the slope and
deflection of beam at any point as well as the maximum values and
their location.
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balloon framing question
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This is hard to describe without a pic but I will do my best.....
After removing the plaster from a first floor wall I saw that the 2 x 4 studs run from the basement clear up to the second floor and end at the bottom of the roof rafters. I really want this wall removed to expand my kitchen........ more »
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Trying to Remember a Dutch Futurist Architect's Name
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I'm trying to recall an architecture book I saw in the late 1990's,
paperback, with very odd futuristic building drawings - I've managed
to forget the title of the book and the author's name but I do
remember it was a name something like "Beezius" or "Beerzius", I
recall that it started with "Bee" and there was an "ius" on the end.... more »
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2012 Conferences in civil engineering
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New Civil Engineering conferences for 2012 are now posted at
[link]
These conferences provide an opportunity to share information and
exchange ideas in the fields of structural, materials, geotechnical,
transportation, water resources and environmental engineering.... more »
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Natural Architecture design.
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[link]
I like it. Hoping to design an office addition, it would be
North facing mainly. A room with a large South facing
window usually needs heavy curtains, and adds a lot of
heat.
Ken
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