Analysis Of Bailey's Crossroads: Skyline Plaza

Triangle, a novel written by David Von Drehle, is about the working conditions that caused “the deadliest workplace disaster in New York history [for ninety years to come]” (Drehle 3). It occurred in the early 1930’s, and about the events that led to protests for better conditions so that the incident that happened on March 25, 1911, in the Triangle Waist building, would not be replicated. Due to the inadequate working conditions, some buildings experienced disasters because “[The] workplace safety was scarcely regulated, and workers’ compensation was considered newfangled or even socialist” (Drehle 3). Most who lost their lives that unfaithful day at the Triangle building, were taken to the pier, “the makeshift morgue at the end of the pier

Smoke and flames were spewing out of gaping holes bored by American Airlines’ Boeing 767 that crashed between the 93 and 99 floors on the North face of the 110- story building. Each of the North Tower floors were roughly an acre. The top 20 floors engulfed in flames, he was staring at a 20- acre fire raging 90 stories above. He thought in his head that, This is the most unbelievable sight I’ve ever seen. Meldrum parked the fire truck on the West Street in front of the

Traffic in downtown Austin, Texas is becoming a sever issue and is continuing to become slower and more congested every day. Austin ranks 4th on a list of U.S. cities with the least efficient roadways, and with its remarkable growth rate, the issue can only get worse. After reading numerous articles based on opinions and statements from local city planners and engineers, the best way to see an improvement in the traffic issue is to increase the amount of public transportation in the Austin area. The increase of public transportation would provide fast travel time and would help reduce the amount of money, commuters and locals use on gas by a substantial amount per year. Though many may argue the that we have enough public transportation already, reducing the number of personal vehicles on the road would decrease the amount of bumper to bumper traffic experienced on a daily basis, as well as increase the options for those commuting to the city every day. there are many possible solutions, such as widening the highways or even building them underground, these solutions however are not the most economically correct and productive way to relieve traffic downtown.

The World Trade Center (WTC) held fairly high regard throughout New York as a structurally sound building, but the authors of 102 Minutes beg to differ on this opinion. They use various diagrams and statistics of the incredible impact and destruction the planes caused to the building, arguments against the poor architectural design and support of the towers, and periodic timestamps to make claims and factual statements about the events that occurred. The timestamps serve as a means of the authors building suspense in their audience, deepening uncertainty in the audience which intends to move them to read further and discover the office laborers’ fates. Moments like “At 9:19… we’re trapped… there’s smoke coming in. I don’t know what’s happening”(102 Minutes 186) and when Assistant Chief Callan“stood

April 19, 1995, 9:02 a.m: a bomb was set off beneath the Alfred P. Murrah Building. The bomb damaged the structural support beams and the Northern support columns. Half of the building collapsed. 168 people died (Cook 5). Eric McKisick, a district manager, recalls the incident, ¨I made an assumption that, hey, everybody is out, everybody is good, and I left at that point. It wasn't ´till much later that I saw the devastation and understood they didn't respond because they couldn't.” Not only were there a large number of casualties, 300 people were also injured, some of whom were physically impaired for the rest of their life. A child who was in the building at the time of the explosion states, “I have no recollection of that day, but I’m reminded everyday about it because of my breathing problems (Brandes, Heide, Schapiro).”

No steel-beam high-rise had ever before (or since) completely collapsed due to fires! However, such complete and nearly symmetrical collapses in tall steel-frame buildings have occurred many times before—all of them due to pre-positioned explosives in a procedure called “implosion” or controlled demolition. (22)

A secondary school child could explain a test on the subject of dormancy, effect, and influence of the huge crashes on the two 107-stories WTC 1 and WTC 2 that brought about the breakdown of the 50-stories WTC 7. The other four towers were so little it would have been impossible shake brutally enough to fall. The basic truth was that the crashes of the two planes with the upper parts of WTC 1 and WTC 2 were seen by numerous individuals and recorded on features. In that capacity, the effect from impacts at the upper part of the towers must be calculated into the reenactment, for its total power of effect, its influence on shearing the base of the structures, and its warm impact in starting the falling breakdown. Tower 7 was both sufficiently high to catch more prominent vibration than each other tower and sufficiently close to be completely overwhelmed in fiery remains, garbage, and

At 9:03 a.m. a massive bomb resting inside a rented Ryder truck destroyed half of the nine story federal building in downtown Oklahoma City. Within moments, the surrounding area looked like a

The construction of the Skyline Plaza in Fairfax County came to a halt early in the afternoon on March 2, 1973. It was originally speculated by the workers on site that the crane assisting in lifting materials to the higher sections of the building failed and fell into the side of the building causing the collapse. However, Author Dov Kaminetsky conducted research alongside the National Bereau of Standards(NBS), and published his book, Design and Construction: Lessons from Forensic Investigations.[2] Kaminetsky provides the conclusion of NBS 's investigation that the collapse was a result of shear construction error. The building began to collapse as construction workers proceeded to remove the concrete shoring between the middle sector of the building, specifically the 22nd and 23rd floor. The shoring process requires the placement of a concrete structure to support a building while under construction to prevent the collapse of the operation. The result of the collapse took the lives of 14 construction workers and 35 other individuals near the building. With proper critique to policies and evaluation of work orders, further disasters may be prevented in the future in the United States. So how did theinvestigationn of the

The date was March 25, 1911. It was a particularly warm spring evening in New York City. Located in the heart of Manhattan the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was located on the last three floors of the Asch Building in the downtown area. The clock read 4:45p.m, fifteen minutes before the women working inside would be receiving their checks and then be let out for the night. Little did anybody know that in just a few short seconds it would be the site of the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city.

In today’s society the landscape of the city is constantly changing to accommodate for technological innovations, greater populations, and economic opportunity. As the skyline of cities across America are changing at a rate faster than ever seen before, one immense community is being left in the dust. The suburbs of America have refused to change, allowing a great resemblance of what they looked like 50 years ago. The stubbornness of the suburbs to change has led to many issues economically and environmentally. In her essay, “Seventy-Five Percent”, Ellen Dunham-Jones puts forth that 75% of construction in the past decade occurs in the suburban landscape. Yet, in today’s society much of the architectural community contains a strong bias against the suburbs. However, with over half the country’s

On January 24, 2016, at1656 hours, I, Cpl. Lessane, with the Hampton County Sheriff’s Office, responded to 252 Davidson Tower Road, to meet with Paulina Carroll, in reference to stolen medication.

The building has an innovative structure, as it was one of the first buildings to use a technique of pouring concrete in stages. This was, unfortunately, discovered when the building was 20 stories high. Though, the building is 100 stories high, so it helped the

On 01/09/208 at about 1006 hours, I was dispatched to 633 Loma Bella Lane in reference burglary from a motor vehicle that had occurred.

Stamford Plaza is situated in Central Auckland at the walking distance from the Viaduct Harbour. Stamford Plaza was established in 1995 by its parent company named as “Stamford Land Corporation”. Stamford Plaza is one of the largest independent hotel property in New Zealand. Stamford Plaza has created its significant presence across overseas. Stamford Plaza is operating its hotels approximately around the world with 2500 rooms, 2200 employees and residential assets. The Stamford Plaza positioned itself it’s and comes in between in the rating of 4.5 and 5 (Stamford Plaza, 2015). The Stamford Plaza has four restaurants. The indoor heated swimming pool, whirlpool spa, sauna and gymnasium offer leisure or business travellers a wonderful cityscape and harbour view. Stamford Plaza provides one of the best hotel recreation facilities in Auckland (Stamford Plaza, 2015). The hotel consists of 286 contemporary Predential and Executive guest rooms and suites. All rooms have a fresh ambient environment. Stamford has got 6 function rooms caters the needs of all the events (Stamford Plaza, 2015)