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    “VERIFYING THE ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY OF IMPLEMENTING GREEN ROOF FOR SMALL DWELLINGS: CASE OF RESIDENTIAL UNITS, AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND.” NAGARJUNA REDDY MATLURU(B.E) ID:15883245 INTRODUCTION: Novel ecosystems such as Green Roof are increasingly becoming one of the most sustainable elements of a building. Research and design of green roof is largely encouraged by most of the countries, Taking big step towards sustainable development

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    Dwelling, Heidegger also insists, has a certain emotional state of being attached to it.  People tend to interpret the experience of dwelling with the sense of home.  Dwelling imbues the experiencer with a sense of peace and satisfaction.  It is a safe space where they are free to be themselves and a place that need not be either specific nor stationary.  In fact, the famous saying “home is where the heart is” perfectly illustrates that home is a feeling without the need for a dwelling to contain

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    Pros And Cons Of Burglary

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    extension of the dwelling, even if those buildings are not used as living quarters. If there is, for example, a farmhouse, a barn, and a tool shed that all sit within one large fence, the barn and the tool shed are considered part of the dwelling even though they are not used as living quarters and, if a defendant breaks and enters into the barn or the tool shed with the intent of committing a felony, he can be convicted of burglary. Also please note that if a defendant enters a dwelling without breaking

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    which as Heidegger says ‘pervades to the dwelling’, suggesting that the ‘dwelling’ is linked to the mortal and helps ‘escort’ it while still maintaining a relation to the other three . The excerpt concludes with Heidegger proposing that the problem with the dwelling is not simply a lack of homes but that people or ‘mortals’ are looking to understand the dwelling rather than simply learning to experience it –“Mortals ever search anew for the nature of dwelling, that they must ever learn to dwell. ”

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    The Ojibway creation story portrays the ecological purpose of “apprehending your dwelling place.” The Original Man was able to apprehend his dwelling place by living in harmony with the rest of creation on Earth. Later on, the tribes that originated from the Original Man began to fight one another over land and disrespected the living things of Earth. Since the people were no longer apprehending their dwelling place, Kitchi-Manitou sent a flood to purify the Earth. New land was created when Nanaboozhoo

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    DISCUSSION A. Does Spirit Family Support Shelter constitute as a dwelling under the Fair Housing Act (FHA)? The first issue is whether Spirit Family Support Shelter qualifies as a dwelling under the Fair Housing Act. Under the FHA, a dwelling is any building, structure, or portion thereof, for purposes of occupancy, as a residence by one or more families, and any vacant land offered for sale or lease for the construction, or location of any such building, structure, or portion thereof. Fair Housing

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    Lyneham: A Case Study

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    the average block size for single residential dwellings is 728 square metres (ACT GOV, 2003). 1.2 - Type of House: It was observed that there were a variety of home types in the route undertaken. Such types include houses, units, flats and townhouses. Of the 1,992 dwellings in Lyneham in August 2001 1,817 were occupied private dwellings, 166 were unoccupied private dwellings and 9 were non-private dwellings. Of the 1,817 occupied private dwellings in 2001, 40% were detached houses, 29% were semi-detached

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    into two parts. In the first part of report shown importance of R-code in the design of subdivision and second part shown used the part 5 ‘deemed-to-comply’ of R-codes refer to the design elements for all single house(s) and grouped dwellings; and multiple dwellings in area codes less than R40. R-Codes The R-Codes stand for the Residential Design Codes. The State Planning Policy is prepared under section 26 of the Planning and Development Act 2005 by the Western Australian Planning Commission. The

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    committed common law burglary? Common law burglary is the trespassory breaking and entering of the dwelling house of another, in the nighttime, with the specific intent to commit a felony therein. A dwelling is a place regularly used to sleep and Nighttime is the period when the countenance of a person cannot be discerned by natural sunlight. A strange man demanded that Amanda let him in her home (dwelling house), at 11 o’clock at night(nighttime) with the threatening gesture of pulling out a gun. Once

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    This report uses the application of direct sales comparison approach to derive the site value for the subject property. There are sufficient sales of vacant lots within 3 miles of the subject property. Seven suitable vacant lot sales were selected and analyzed to estimate indicated subject’s lot value (table_ 1). The analysis uses a per sq. ft. unit in valuing the site. The vacant lots were sold March to October of 2013. Lots attribute such as lot size, lot shape, topography, Resource Protected Area

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