In the past, accidents in the construction industry were accepted as part of the trade. If you worked in excavation or on an elevated structure you knew there was a chance that you could be injured or even die. As technology progressed so did safety equipment and safety procedures. Finely we are at ...

Langdon Winner calls technological determinism "nave," because the viewpoint fails to take into consideration the impact of social and political forces on the shaping of technological systems in society (63). Technology has no will of its own; it would be impossible to separate the psychologica...

Bonfire May Never Be the Same From the first Aggie Bonfire erected in 1909, to the catastrophic collapse in 1999, the tradition that Bonfire signified was "the burning desire to beat the hell out of T.U." (University of Texas). Bonfire still upholds that tradition, but the scars from 19...

Who can design anything from a three bedroom ranch house to a fifty-story skyscraper or a complex highway system? An architect does. By definition an architect is one who researches, plans, designs, and administers building projects for clients (Chronicle Guidance publications 3). An architect&ap...

Project Description After several months of planning and design, excavation for the new ACES library on the University of Illinois campus began in May 1999. The project is sponsored and will be owned by the Board of Trustees for the University of Illinois. Six separate contractors are working t...

Construction Management Anywhere you visit throughout the world today, there is a very good chance you will come across some type of construction taking place. It could be the construction of new schools, roads, buildings, bridges, shopping centers, restaurants, or subdivisions. Construction has ...

Description, Planning and Alternatives Assessment of proposed technology Description 1 Project and Product The proposed technology that will be evaluated in this report is the design of a new generation consulting firm. This firm will not be traditional in nature but will use the I...