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Journal articles on the topic "Building trades"

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Callanan, Gerard, and David Perri. "Constructing construction careers: the case for the building trades." Education + Training 62, no. 3 (March 23, 2020): 201–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/et-06-2019-0117.

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PurposeThis paper discusses the well-publicized labor shortages in the building trades, reviews the causes for the deficiencies, and presents prescriptions for how career counselors and schools can play a critical role in encouraging young adults to consider construction occupations.Design/methodology/approachUsing data from government agencies, trade organizations, and scholarly publications, this paper describes the categories of the building trades as well as their employment trends and compensation prospects. It also reviews the personal and environmental factors that could lead to the “construction of a construction career.”FindingsThis article documents the reasons for the labor shortages in the construction industry and then offers recommendation on how younger adults could be encouraged to consider the building trades as viable career alternatives.Social implicationsLabor shortages in the construction industry have a direct and indirect deleterious effect on the economic well-being of every country. This article provides suggestions on how to inspire young adults to consider the building trades as worthwhile career pursuits.Originality/valueThere is a limited amount of scholarly attention given to career decision making related to occupations that do not require a college degree, including the building trades. This paper attempts to fill this gap in the literature by focusing on the individual characteristics and environmental factors that might prompt consideration of a career in the building trades. It also describes the educational, governmental, and corporate initiatives that work to encourage individuals, working in conjunction with their career counselors, to consider careers in the construction industry.
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Porath, Jane, and Larry Porath. "Math For Real: Building Trades." Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School 16, no. 7 (March 2011): 448. http://dx.doi.org/10.5951/mtms.16.7.0448.

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When building home, it is critical for the walls to be at a 90° angle with the floor and with one another. Builders say the frame is square when these conditions are met. Otherwise, the structural integrity and safety of the house will be compromised. Builders use geometric properties to ensure that the walls and floor are square with one another.
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Okoye, Peter Uchenna. "Occupational Health and Safety Risk Levels of Building Construction Trades in Nigeria." Construction Economics and Building 18, no. 2 (June 27, 2018): 92–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/ajceb.v18i2.5882.

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This study assessed the occupational health and safety risk-level of common building construction trades in Nigeria. It also identified the sources, frequency and magnitude of risks inherent in the activities of various building construction trades. Being site-based survey research, it made use of a structured questionnaire administered to the selected building construction workers of different trades in Anambra State, Nigeria. The collected data were subjected to quantitative risk analysis using mean value method and risk prioritisation number. The study found that masonry, carpentry (including formwork and roofing), and iron bending and steel fixing are common building trades associated with high risks; whereas electrical fitting and installation, painting, tiling, and plumbing are medium risk building trades. It also found that the rate of occurrence and magnitude of impact of different safety risk factors differ across the building trades, which could be attributed to the differences in activities and modes of operation in different building trades. On this premise, the study suggested a multi-risk management and control approach for construction managers on building construction sites since the frequency of risk occurrence and the magnitude of risk severity differ across trades. It further called for institutional and legislative re-strengthening of extant labour laws in Nigeria.
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Hartmann, Sabine, Dirk Gossmann, Suzan Kalmuk, and Katharina Klemt-Albert. "Optimizing Interfaces of Construction Processes by Digitalization Using the Example of Hospital Construction in Germany." Buildings 13, no. 6 (May 30, 2023): 1421. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings13061421.

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In hospital construction, additional challenges must be considered, such as an increased number of stakeholders and building trades, such as medical and laboratory technology. Due to the increasing requirements and challenges, associated construction processes are becoming more intricate. Especially for complex building types, the effects of this development are clearly noticeable and cause considerable disruptions to the construction process. A main difficulty constitutes the missing definition of the interfaces of building trades and participants. In the present study, interfaces in hospital construction were identified and analyzed by guided interviews with experts from the health sector. The qualitative content analysis, according to Mayring, was used for the evaluation to derive appropriate solution approaches. This paper presents the interfaces using the example of hospital construction in Germany and general approaches of optimization. Hereby, the digital method Building Information Modeling (BIM) plays a decisive role in the optimization of interfaces, especially in complex buildings. Furthermore, a task and building trade control matrix is required to better coordinate the interfaces. The identified approach intends to alleviate potential disputes and misunderstandings among stakeholders, as well as to improve time and financial predictability, which are particularly valuable during inflationary periods.
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Coolican, Alice. "Solidarity and Sectionalism in the Sydney Building Trades: The Role of the Building Trades Council 1886-1895." Labour History, no. 54 (1988): 16. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/27504433.

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Toppin, Ian. "Who is Going to Build the Wall? A Building Trades Crisis in the U.S.A." International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training 5, no. 1 (April 26, 2018): 64–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.13152/ijrvet.5.1.4.

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The context of this study was to examine factors contributing to significant workforce shortages in building trades in the United States. As it is, recruitment of qualified skilled trades workers is becoming increasingly difficult due to lack of a pipeline of prospective workers, and training programs. The study assumed a theoretical inquiry approach in order to address the following three main questions: 1) What is the scope of the workforce shortage in skilled and building trades in the US? 2) What factors are recognized as contributors to the building trades workforce shortage in the US? And, 3) What strategies can be implemented to reverse building trades workforce shortages in the US? Findings affirmed that the scope of workforce shortages in skilled and building (con- struction) trades in the US is very broad and the impact is rather deep. Factors con- tributing to the shortage include: declines in high school technical education programs, which have been replaced by career academies; misconception that higher education al- ways equal higher income, but the untold story is higher debt associated with pursuing higher education; and stricter immigration laws, which are forcing potential workers out of the US. The study concluded that in order to reverse currently declining workforce trends the following six strategies should be implemented: 1) Make it a national priority, thereby appropriating adequate resources to the effort. 2) Increase the number or women and African Americans in building trades. 3) Expand apprenticeship programs. An expan- sion of both government and corporate incentives are needed to stimulate an increase in apprenticeships. 4) Reintroduce building and skilled trades programs in secondary and postsecondary schools. Growth in the number of Career Academies, and participation in them has been encouraging, yet there are not enough of them to meet the need. 5) Re-examine guest-worker programs, which are currently cumbersome for employers to participate in, and do not allow for anywhere close to the number of workers needed to meet workforce needs. 6) Change marketing of building trades from menial to meaning- ful. Many young people simply do not know that they can make a comfortable living from a career in skilled trades. They have been taught that at least a bachelor’s degree is needed in order to have a successful career. This narrative has to be revised in order to create a pipeline of prospective skilled trades employees for the future.
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Fernandes, Gilberto. "Part of the Solution? Indigenous Apprentices and the Unionized Building Trades." Labour / Le Travail 93 (June 3, 2024): 165–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.52975/llt.2024v93.009.

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There have never been more favourable conditions for drawing Indigenous workers into the unionized building trades. The construction industry needs to replenish and diversify its overwhelmingly white, male, and aging workforce to meet skilled labour demands in the next few decades, when major civil infrastructure, mining, and green energy developments are expected to occur in northern Indigenous territories. These projects will be mandated by impact benefit agreements to employ a significant number of Indigenous workers who will first need to be trained. At the same time, Indigenous peoples are the fastest-growing population in Canada and have shown a propensity for pursuing trades education. In recent years, Ontario’s largest building trade unions have taken significant steps to recruit, train, and employ northern Indigenous workers, including in Nunavut. In collaboration with various stakeholders, the unions’ efforts are starting to show positive results. But are their methods and goals informed by decolonization, reconciliation, and Indigenization? This article reflects on this question while examining the case of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 793, which has been a leader among building trades unions when it comes to establishing relationships with Indigenous partners, training Indigenous workers, and contributing to their economic self-determination.
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Moos, S. "EMPLOYMENT AND OUTPUT IN THE BUILDING TRADES." Bulletin of the Oxford University Institute of Economics & Statistics 8, no. 2 (May 1, 2009): 44–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0084.1946.mp8002002.x.

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Chen, Yi Jao, Chung Wei Feng, and Kung Wen Lee. "The Application of BIM Model in M/E/P Construction Coordination." Applied Mechanics and Materials 229-231 (November 2012): 2760–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.229-231.2760.

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The M/E/P (Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing) system of the building project has become more and more complex as the demand of the better living environment within the modern buildings increases. However, since the complexity and uniqueness involved within MEP trades, various fields of designers or contractors can hardly share their information with each other. This study employs BIM (Building Information Modeling) technology to assist the stakeholders of the construction projects to share and exchange information according to their needs. First, the process of different MEP disciplines will be systematically analyzed. Then the possible conflicts between trades will be identified. According to the study, necessary and important attributes required for the MEP BIM objects will be developed. Those developed BIM objects will later serve as the core of the communication platform, on which the project participants can easily access and share information. In addition, a better information integration mechanism for MEP systems will be developed throughout different phases of the project life cycle.
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Tolbert, Pamela S., and Marc Silver. "Under Construction: Work and Alienation in the Building Trades." Industrial and Labor Relations Review 41, no. 4 (July 1988): 649. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2523620.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Building trades"

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Brookover, Robert. "The resurgence of traditional building trades in the United States." Virtual Press, 2002. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1231400.

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The last quarter of the twentieth century has seen a dramatic growth of interest in the preservation of historic structures. With this has developed the need to bring back many trades that had declined after World War II. Within the past twenty to thirty years these traditional building trades, which are so vitally needed to accurately restore, recreate, preserve, and adaptively reuse these structures, have become a valuable component of the preservation infrastructure. I have elected to study the careers and historically significant work of tradespersons in two selected regions of the United States, in order to illustrate the resurgence of the traditional building trades on a national level. The focus of this work centers on the careers of a group of craftsmen, from their early beginnings in the trades, to their current status as having earned an identity as a professional in their field. Themes appear from the various stages of their careers. These themes are evaluated through different literature published on this subject and through the formation of trade schools and organizations.
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Ford, Graham. "Organisation and conflict in the Nuremberg building trades, 1878-1914." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.333477.

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Lipski, Barbara J. "What can unions do? : examples from the Massachusetts building trades." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/75966.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1985.
MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH.
Bibliography: leaves 98-103.
by Barbara J. Lipski.
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Noor, Iqbal. "A study of the variability of labour productivity in building trades." Thesis, University of Dundee, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.359578.

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Goetz, Stanley D. "A computer literacy survey of the University of Wisconsin-Stout construction students." Online version, 1999. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/1999/1999goetzs.pdf.

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Ness, Kate. "Constructing craft identities : discourses of skill and identity in the building trades." Thesis, University of Reading, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.605140.

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Apprenticeship and training in UK construction crafts have declined dramatically over the past 35 years, and much learning now takes place informally, on the job. This is the background to the aim of this research, to explore the nature of skill and identity in the building trades. 49 semi-structured interviews were carried out with informants having worked on construction sites in England over the period since the Second World War. A narrative analysis produced 'life histories' of learning and practicing a trade. The interviews were also analysed in terms of changing understandings of skill and identity, comparing data from contemporary sites in the southeast with a historical case study of the Manchester Direct Works Department in 1979-1982. Critical Discourse Analysis identified site discourses used to construct indentities and compared these with discourses from policy documents since 1950.
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Roszler, Sarah Katherine 1977. "Building skills : a construction trades training facility for the eastern Canadian Arctic." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/30285.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2005.
Leaf 204 blank. Some leaves folded.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 195-202).
On April 1, 1999, the Inuit of the Eastern Canadian Arctic achieved sovereignty over a new territory, Nunavut, envisioning economic self-reliance, political self-determination, and renewal of confidence in Inuit community. Life in Nunavut, however, remains circumscribed by adversities: poverty, crowded houses, and long winters. Both government and industry are constrained by inexperienced administration and insufficient budgets. Perhaps no sector is as challenged as the construction industry, caught between the vast demand of a housing crisis and the extreme cost of importing labor. The territory must invest in building skills to reduce the cost of housing. Trades training in the Eastern Arctic will have political, cultural, and economic significance for a community long dependent on remote governments and migrant workers. Moreover, local tradesmen will be indispensable to an affordable construction strategy for community buildings serving a population expanding at twice the national rate. Over the course of fifty years of permanent settlement in Nunavut, no construction system has yet been devised for civic spaces that respond to its social, physical, and logistical conditions.
by Sarah Katherine Roszler.
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Hackett, Nyssa. "Training in the Historic Building Trades of New Orleans: An Inventory and Analysis." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2011. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1315.

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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 trades in New Orleans through the lens of workforce development and to inventory and analyze current programs that teach the trades. Analysis of historic training in the trades and best practices in workforce development inform an assessment of the strengths of current programs and their ability to enhance the supply of master craftsmen. Additional analysis of workforce development practices and programmatic strengths combine to illustrate room introducing career pathways and intermediaries into the current system of training. This system of training in New Orleans is fragmented and insufficient to truly enhance supply; however, programmatic strengths present opportunities for improvement.
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Gömmel, Rainer. "Vorindustrielle Bauwirtschaft in der Reichsstadt Nürnberg und ihrem Umland (16.-18. Jh.)." [Stuttgart] : In Kommission bei F. Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden, 1985. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/16228450.html.

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The author's Habilitationsschrift--Universität Regensburg, 1984, presented under the title: Vorindustrielle Bauwirtschaft vom 16. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert in der Reichsstadt Nürnberg und ihrem Umland.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 280-295) and index.
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Pretorius, Albertus Johannes Hendrik. "Business problems facing potential emerging contractors in CIDB grades 5 to 7." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/3459.

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Considering the vital part which the construction industry plays in the economy of South Africa, as well as the objectives of the reconstruction and development thereof, the failure of contractors, despite all the interventions to identify and eradicate the root of the problem, is a matter of great concern. In November 2000, the Construction Industry Development Board Act (2000) was promulgated which led to the inception of the cidb with a mandate to implement an integrated strategy for the reconstruction, growth and development of the construction industry. The matter of contractor development has been widely studied and investigated since the inception of the cidb in 2000. However, the purpose of this study was to focus on the business problems faced by Grade 5 to 7 CE / GB Potential Emerging Contractors, with regard to construction organisations that make the move from small to medium businesses. The intention was to contribute to the successful transition from small to medium businesses by means of structured initiatives. In order to achieve this, a new business strategy must be adopted. It was therefore necessary to extensively consider the surface and core competencies required for making the transition. Liquidity problems that the transition entails were explored, as well as contractor misconceptions with regard to contractor development. In the course of the study, unethical practices and entitlement issues experienced in the built environment and the effect of this on contractor success were explored. The study aimed to recommend a structured framework for co-ordination between assistance, mentorship, contractor needs, client departments, cidb NCDP best practice guidelines and the most important of all, self-empowerment. This study further endeavoured to find possible solutions regarding the assistance requirements, as well as self-empowering objectives for emerging contractors taking the challenging step from small to medium business and by implication, becoming sustainable contractor enterprises in Grades 6 to 8. Political imperatives need to be weighed against the high unemployment rate. The Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF) indicates that there are not enough sustainable contracting opportunities to allocate to Contractor Development Programmes (CDPs). This is aggravated by the tendency that too many hopeful aspirant entrepreneurs, lacking construction surface and core competencies, are seeing the built environment as an easy industry to enter. Just less than 50% of cidb registered contractors exited the register of active contractors during the last ten years ending 2nd quarter 2015. 45% exited during the last five years. This indicates that there is a serious sustainability problem in the built environment. Considering the GFCF contractor opportunities there are too many cidb registered contractors. However, enterprise failure is not only an Emerging Contractor (EC) problem, but occurs across the board. A dangerous notion that the large national construction firms should no longer qualify for public contracts can have disastrous implications for an already embattled industry. Large national firms are the trend setters in the built environment, which coach the much needed construction surface and core competencies. If upgrading is the measure of success the current CDP statistics do not confirm that the strategic objectives of the National Contractor Development Programme (NCDP) are being achieved. All contractors, including black owned contractors, are faring substantially better than their EC counterparts participating in CDPs. Upgrading should carry less weight and sustainability and high performance should become the focus. A serious lack of construction surface and core competencies was identified. If contractor development is the objective the structure of the cidb grading system should be reviewed. It is recommended that the broad CDP hierarchical structure should streamlined and partly privatised to focus on the core strategic objective of contractor development.
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Books on the topic "Building trades"

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1953-, Toenjes Leonard P., ed. Building trades printreading. 2nd ed. Homewood, Ill: American Technical Publishers, 1995.

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Toenjes, Leonard P. Building trades dictionary. Homewood, Ill: American Technical Publishers, 1989.

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Proctor, Thomas E. Building trades printreading. 3rd ed. Homewood, Ill: American Technical Publishers, 1998.

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Toenjes, Leonard P. Building trades dictionary. 2nd ed. Homewood, Ill: American Technical Publishers, 1996.

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Alliance, Building Trades. Building trades directory. [Markyate]: Building Trades Alliance, 1997.

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Sundberg, Elmer W. Building trades printreading. Homewood, Ill: American Technical Publishers, 1987.

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Sumichrast, Michael. Opportunities in building construction trades. 2nd ed. Lincolnwood, Ill: VGM Career Horizons, 1999.

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Sticht, Thomas G. Construction trades knowledge base. Lake Forest, Ill: Glencoe, 1992.

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Osbourn, Derek. Introduction to building. 3rd ed. New York: Prentice Hall, 2002.

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Congress, Trades Union, ed. Building the links - Trades Union Councils: Trade unions in the community. London: TUC, 1993.

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Book chapters on the topic "Building trades"

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Varshney, Shekhar. "Placing Orders and Trades." In Building Trading Bots Using Java, 97–158. Berkeley, CA: Apress, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2520-2_6.

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Dittrich, Egbert. "Layout of Technical Building Trades." In The Sustainable Laboratory Handbook, 77–80. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9783527337095.part2.

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Sobel, David. "Building Green: An Environmental Future in the Construction Trades." In Re-Shaping Work 2, edited by Chris Schenk and John Anderson, 135–56. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/9781442602922-007.

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Stephenson, Judy Z. "Contracts and Ways of Working in the Building Trades." In Palgrave Studies in Economic History, 79–106. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57508-7_4.

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Bessot, Annie. "Designing a Simulator in Building Trades to Transform Vocational Education." In Transformation - A Fundamental Idea of Mathematics Education, 223–39. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3489-4_12.

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Potofsky, Allan. "The Building Trades of Paris During the Terror and Thermidor, 1793–1795." In Constructing Paris in the Age of Revolution, 146–82. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230245280_5.

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Stephenson, Judy Z. "In Search of the Average Craftsman: Understanding Skilled Work and Wages in the Early Modern Building Trades and Wider Economy." In Seven Centuries of Unreal Wages, 117–41. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96962-6_5.

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Medved, Sašo. "Building Acoustics and Noise Control in Buildings." In Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering, 331–406. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74390-1_5.

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Sugrue, Thomas J. "Affirmative Action from Below: Civil Rights, the Building Trades, and the Politics of Racial Equality in the Urban North, 1945–1969." In The Best American History Essays 2006, 231–61. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-06580-3_10.

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Potofsky, Allan. "Parisian Building at the End of the Ancien Régime: The Construction Trades, the Pre-Industrial Market, and the Guild Debate, 1750–1789." In Constructing Paris in the Age of Revolution, 22–62. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230245280_2.

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Conference papers on the topic "Building trades"

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Kay, John. "Williston Basin CORE-CM Initiative Presentation to ND Building and Trades Unions." In North Dakota Building and Trades Unions Convention, Bismarck, North Dakota, 8/18/2022. US DOE, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/2345210.

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Piacenza, Joseph, Irem Y. Tumer, Robert B. Stone, Jeffrey Knighton, and Ihab Elzeyadi. "Towards a System Analysis and Integration Framework for Early Design Trades in Sustainable Building Design." In ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2011-64149.

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The design and implementation of net-zero energy and water commercial buildings is a high-performance alternative to traditional structures. The complexity of engineering and architectural design strategies required to achieve post-construction net-zero standing requires an integrated design approach, utilizing an array of novel sustainable building design technologies. Here, we document the schematic design timeline of the Oregon Sustainability Center (OSC), a 150,000 ft2 net-zero energy commercial “smart” building slated for construction in Portland, Oregon. The design of the OSC is constrained around guidelines described in the Living Building Challenge (LBC), a building standard for sustainable, net-zero energy and water design in modern construction. This paper identifies the primary OSC design considerations, mechanical subsystems required to achieve these goals, as well the various stakeholders associated with the project. A correlation between stakeholder influences on design decisions is mapped demonstrating the relevance of peripheral effects on the design process. The intent of this case study documentation is to work toward an integrated approach to sustainable building design based on the goal of making critical design decisions strategically during the design process, conserving both financial and temporal resources. An integrated design framework for net-zero energy and water subsystems will assist in creating replicable sustainable building designs.
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Zhang, Linyu, Yongchang Li, Scott Duncan, Juhyun Kim, and Dimitri Mavris. "Development of a Building-Specific, Multi-Criteria Energy Technology Portfolio Evaluation Approach." In ASME 2014 8th International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the ASME 2014 12th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/es2014-6654.

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An accurate building energy technology portfolio evaluation approach is needed that integrates physics-based models and business case analysis. Open source, parametric building modeling tools have recently matured to enable system-level building energy analysis at high fidelities. It is observed that these modeling tools usually only analyze energy savings and are not concerned with other criteria often factored into the choice of an energy technology portfolio. This paper presents an approach to constructing a parametric, physics-based, building-specific, business case analysis tool for quantifying multi-criteria performance of building energy technology portfolios. The resulting environment, which is used to build up a portfolio step-by-step and analyze performance trades, is explained through a case study. The application presented is for a building energy retrofit, comparing building energy consumption before and after application of technologies from a set of contenders, but it can be extended to the design of new buildings.
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Spath, D., and J. Andres. "Concept of a Robot for Interior Building Trades by the Example of Wall Slits in Masonry." In 13th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction. International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC), 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.22260/isarc1996/0109.

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Gordon, Linsey, Angella J. Kim, and Heidi Wagner. "Pretty in PPE: The Relationship between Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Self-Efficacy, and Job Satisfaction of Women in the Building Trades." In No One is an Island. Iowa State University Digital Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.31274/itaa.17269.

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Byrne, J., M. Elgohary, B. Canas, D. Shemavonian, R. Ricciuti, and L. Hiebert. "ACR-1000® Constructability and Modularization." In 16th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone16-48932.

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Many industries are using skids, modules and prefabrications to enhance construction productivity, reduce schedules and thus reduce costs. The leaders in this regard are offshore oil and gas, chemical and refinery, ship building, etc. Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. (AECL®) has had considerable success at the Qinshan Nuclear Power project in China with the use of modularization, which proved extremely effective in paralleling of activities and shortening the schedule. Extensive use has been made of skids and modules in Japan and this also has proven effective in shortening schedules in the construction of nuclear power plants. Secondary benefits of modularization and prefabrication include decreased site congestion and logistical issues, increased worker safety, and better quality control of fabrication. Modules and prefabrication allow work to be shifted to areas where skilled trades are more readily available from a site where skilled trades are very limited. One of the objectives for the ACR-1000® (Advanced CANDU Reactor®) project is to produce a design to allow for a very secure construction schedule. The construction method and strategy, consisting of extensive use of prefabrication and modularization, has been defined very early in the ACR-1000 conceptual phase of the layout and design process. This is addressed through a constructability programme that integrates the civil design with site erection and module installation. This paper presents the ACR-1000 construction strategy and methods and show examples of how the integrated civil design approach with modularization and prefabrication are utilized to shorten the construction schedule and reduce the project risk.
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Bilbro, James W., Robert Jayroe, and Wayman Baker. "Status of the Laser Atmospheric Wind Sounder." In Coherent Laser Radar. Washington, D.C.: Optica Publishing Group, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/clr.1991.thb2.

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The Phase I studies for the LAWS instrument were competitively bid and planned as a parallel effort between two prime contractors. The main purposes of the Phase I studies were to define the LAWS instrument requirements, define the instrument concepts and configurations, and conduct instrument performance analysis. The option to procede to Phase II as a parallel effort with the same contractors was to be exercised based on the recommendation of a Non-Advocacy Review (NAR) panel, which was composed of nationally recognized laser experts. The main purposes of the Phase II studies are for both contractors to optimize their instrument configuration via trades and analyses, perform a preliminary design based upon the optimized configuration, prepare a systems plan for the follow on Phase C/D contract, and define the tasks needed to complete Phase C/D effort. Phase C/D includes building the LAWS flight hardware, delivering and integrating the hardware at the launch area and developing the procedures for mission operations. In addition to the Phase II study effort, there is a parallel LAWS breadboard effort with both contractors to demonstrate the laser technology required for deriving wind fields and retiring as much risk as possible before building the flight hardware. The Phase C/D effort will be open to competitive bidding. LAWS was originally scheduled to fly on the Japanese Polar Orbiting Platform (JPOP) in 1998, but the agreement between Japan and the United States was never formalized and has since been dropped.
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Henze, Gregor P. "Trade-Off Between Energy Consumption and Utility Cost in the Optimal Control of Active and Passive Building Thermal Storage Inventory." In ASME 2004 International Solar Energy Conference. ASMEDC, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/isec2004-65108.

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In contrast to building energy conversion equipment, less improvement has been achieved in thermal energy distribution, storage and control systems in terms of energy efficiency and peak load reduction potential. Cooling of commercial buildings contributes significantly to the peak demand placed on an electrical utility grid. Time-of-use electricity rates are designed to encourage shifting of electrical loads to off-peak periods at night and weekends. Buildings can respond to these pricing signals by shifting cooling-related thermal loads either by precooling the building’s massive structure (passive storage) or by using active thermal energy storage systems such as ice storage. Recent theoretical and experimental work showed that the simultaneous utilization of active and passive building thermal storage inventory can save significant amounts of utility costs to the building operator, yet in many cases at the expense of increased electrical energy consumption. This article investigates an approach to ensure that a commercial building utilizing both thermal batteries does not incur excessive energy consumption. The model-based predictive building controller is modified to trade off energy cost against energy consumption. This work shows that buildings can be operated in a demand-responsive fashion to substantially reduce utility costs, however, at the expense of increased energy consumption. Placing a greater emphasis on energy consumption led to a reduction in the savings potential. In the limiting case of energy-optimal control, the reference control was replicated, i.e., if only energy consumption is of concern, neither active nor passive building thermal storage should be utilized. On the other hand, cost-optimal control suggests strongly utilizing both thermal storage inventories.
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Aguilar Prieto, Berenice. "The towns of the Popocateptl Volcano. Territorial symbolism, cultural identity and vernacular architecture." In HERITAGE2022 International Conference on Vernacular Heritage: Culture, People and Sustainability. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica de València, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/heritage2022.2022.14244.

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This paper addresses the relationship between identity and territory from a cultural geography perspective. The case of study is the Popocatépetl Volcano settlements in central Mexico. Natural and social features that have determined the traditional local building and urban spacial solutions are considered. The theoretical approach is based on hermeneutics theories, namely, the symbolic-cultural appropriation of the territory, based on the meaning and symbolism underlying the cultural identity of the communities’ territorial ways of life. It is supported by the results of field research carried out over three years in two towns where university students and local people joined. According to Giménez, whose theory is fundamental for this study, the territories hold a symbolism for the peoples and their history, from which it follows that in rural areas spatial decisions respond mainly to cultural factors. The meaning that ancestral territories comprise for ethnic and mestizo groups, as well as their attachment explains the conception of being places of anchoring collective memory, in the author terms. The latter will be explained through the local vernacular constructive solutions of the volcano towns, their streets and trails, the complementary spaces and elements of daily community life such as orchards and barns. This paper does not overlook the current matter and issues that have arisen after several governmental policies, that together with real estate and cement companies, have disrupted local quality of life, people values and their idiosyncrasies. The cultural development of these towns took centuries to achieve; the mastery of the trades from the knowledge of the materials, among others. Three decades have sufficed for the globalization interests disguised as progress, to make local people let go their ancestral knowledge on how to build their dwellings and how to solve their public spaces. All these is in detriment of the natural resources leading to a loss of balance between human space and nature.
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Orlova, Valentina. "Banking System of Ukraine under Conditions of Overcoming the Consequences of 2008 Global Crisis." In International Conference on Eurasian Economies. Eurasian Economists Association, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.36880/c01.00132.

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In the modern market models state banking system plays the most significant role in the functioning of economic mechanism. It ensures control of total money supply, regulates movement of cash flows, and realizes accumulation and investment of financial resources, crediting different trades and people. In transition from socialist model of economics to market economy a precondition for the start of reformation of economic relations is multi-branch state banking system. In the beginning of 1990-s creation of such banking system began in Ukraine. However, crisis situation in economics that developed in 2008 has shown how imperfect and unadapted to the regularities of market economy was banking system in Ukraine. Now Ukrainian economics like world economy is recovering. However, the problem of growing treasury deficit and national debt becomes issue of the day for the Government as drastic, not predicted variations of foreign currency are able to make an impact on loan market. The article describes history of building Ukrainian banking system starting from market reforms. It gives analysis of the reasons that have caused collapse of the banking system under conditions of the global economic crisis of 2008. It also evaluates prospects for further development of banking sector in Ukraine.
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Reports on the topic "Building trades"

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Allen, Steven. Union Work Rules and Efficiency in the Building Trades. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, October 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w1733.

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Eula Bingham, PhD. Oak Ridge Building Trades medical Screening Program for Portsmouth and Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plants. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), August 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/968625.

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Swenson, C. E. Canister storage building trade study. Final report. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), May 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/464057.

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Persily, Andrew K. Tracer gas techniques for studying building air exchange. Gaithersburg, MD: National Bureau of Standards, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.6028/nbs.ir.88-3708.

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Shyam-Sunder, Sivaraj, Richard G. Gann, William Grosshandler, Hai S. Lew, Richard W. Bukowski, Fahim H. Sadek, Frank W. Gayle, et al. Final report on the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7:. Gaithersburg, MD: National Institute of Standards and Technology, November 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.6028/nist.ncstar.1a.

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Borregaard, Nicola, Isabel Studer, Hernán Blanco, Walter Jokisch, and Rebeca Marín. Trade and Environment in Latin America and the Caribbean Priorities and Challenges. Inter-American Development Bank, July 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0006675.

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Gonzales, Anthony Peter. Trade Liberalization and Small Economies. Inter-American Development Bank, October 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0011122.

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This report discusses the effect of global integration through trade and investment liberalization on small economies. Findings included the idea that small states are more vulnerable and experience greater income volatility than larger states, and that the sources of this vulnerability are often a result of the external environment. This report offers a range of common relevant policy actions for small states themselves and the international community to deal with their special problems of volatility, vulnerability, transition to the changing global trade regime, capacity building and the challenges and opportunities from globalization. This document is part of a series of papers commissioned by the IDB for the 3rd Meeting of the Trade and Integration Dialogue held on October 16th and 17th, 2001 in Washington, DC.
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Staples, Brian Rankin. Capacity Building-Implementation and Administration of Free Trade Agreements: Service-Investment Provisions. Inter-American Development Bank, January 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0008415.

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This paper draws on the experience of Mexico in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and on the experiences of four Latin American countries in the implementation of their services and investment obligations in their FTAs with the United States: Chile (United States-Chile FTA), Costa Rica and El Salvador (Dominican Republic-Central America-United States FTA, or CAFTA-DR), and Peru (United States-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement, or PTPA), referred to herein as the "other" or "new" FTAs. The paper highlights the provisions of these agreements (investment, cross-border trade in services, financial services, and telecommunications), and then discusses the processes and results of their implementation, as well as the domestic political constraints.
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McAllister, Therese P., Richard G. Gann, Jason D. Averill, John L. Gross, William L. Grosshandler, J. Randall Lawson, Kevin B. McGrattan, William M. Pitts, Kuldeep R. Prasad, and Fahim H. Sadek. Structural fire response and probable collapse sequence of World Trade Center Building 7:. Gaithersburg, MD: National Institute of Standards and Technology, November 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.6028/nist.ncstar.1-9.

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Vodusek, Ziga, and Robert Devlin. Trade Related Capacity Building: An Overview in the Context of Latin American Trade Policy and the MERCOSUR-EU Association Agreement. Inter-American Development Bank, February 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0008695.

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Trade has become an increasingly important strategic objective for developing countries. This is a relatively new phenomenon for many of them. Hence the demand to intensify an insertion into the world economy often advances faster than their institutional capacities to formulate effective strategies, trade policies and institutions. This is further complicated by the fact that the insertion is increasingly being undertaken through negotiation of ever more complex trade agreements with important asymmetries between the parties and large repercussions from market opening. Under these circumstances it is not surprising that trade-related capacity building (TRCB) has increasingly gained the attention of developing countries and donors alike. By practicing the art of the possible many advances have been achieved. But many shortcomings are still hindering the delivery of effective TRCB; ironically, some of them being outgrowths of attempts to perfect TRCB.
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