Infrastructure

Sort By:
Page 8 of 50 - About 500 essays
  • Best Essays

    TOPIC: Deteriorating U.S. Roadways GENERAL PURPOSE: To persuade the audience to research, support and act locally and nationally to address the Issue. SPECIFIC PURPOSE: To Inform my audience of the issue so that they are aware of its human impact, how America’s own actions caused the problem and what we, as citizens, can do to help fix our roadways. INTRODUCTION I. ATTENTION GAINER: “On TV I watched as the bridge collapses. Minnesota. Rush hour. Trucks and cars suspended over water. Cars

    • 2029 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Best Essays
  • Better Essays

    Government spending under the PAC rose from BRL513.0 billion (US$259.7 billion) for 2007–2010 to BRL958.9 billion (US$526.0 billion) for 2011–2014. • Brazil’s infrastructure construction market will be supported by large-scale

    • 810 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Syria Essay

    • 982 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Unit estimates that the economy has contracted in terms by 57% since 2010. Non-oil real GDP declined on average by 14% between 2011 and 2015, while oil and gas GDP both fell by an average of 28% during the same period. The losses and physical infrastructure

    • 982 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Good Essays

    Lend Lease Group Case Study

    • 2663 Words
    • 11 Pages

    1. Introduction of Lend Lease Group 1.1 Company Overview ‘The Bond’, as the edifice is well-known in Australia, is Australia 's foremost office building to get genuine results in commercial, environmental, and social sustainability, meeting world’s best practice ( Australian Institute of Architect). It was built by a pioneer real estate business group Lend Lease Group which was established in 1951 in Australia as Civil & Civic. Lend Lease Corporation was formed in 1958 and listed in the Australian

    • 2663 Words
    • 11 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Decent Essays

    the building stretches out to the edge of all sides and creates opportunity to provide rain protection through overhangs along the sidewalks. The adjacent street, Sustainability Street, is a mix of landscape and urban infrastructure project; it combines transportation infrastructure, accessible pedestrian travel, native planting, storm water retention, bio-filtration and ground water recharge. Passive design for heating, cooling and ventilating was put into consideration during the design process

    • 1513 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    others DMSS Classification system context Monitoring & Automation Planning & Implementation Data collection Energy and environmental dashboards Data Center Business Value Dashboards These dashboards, known within the sector as Data Center Infrastructure Management systems, can track information technology equipment status and can provide actionable information and analyses for management of IT equipment, data center space, power, and cooling. DCIM tools monitor, measure, manage and

    • 813 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    [James to complete references and give to Luke, Luke to edit] “Intellectual property (IP) is the property of your mind or proprietary knowledge and can be an invention, a trade mark, a design or the practical application of your idea.” – (http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/understanding-intellectual-property/) It’s imperative to design and construction innovation to acknowledge past and current works that ensure success and a financially viable (personally and commercially) result. This project utilizes

    • 2044 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Better Essays

    Water is an essential commodity for human development. Unfortunately, many communities experience the lack of quality water resources. The aim of this paper is to describe and consider the most common water supply challenges facing many communities and their consequences for firefighting. The paper presents some demonstrations of the primary water supply difficulties leveraging communities. The consequences of these water supply difficulties on firefighting capabilities are suggested in this paper

    • 1459 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Decent Essays

    and reforms, offering China considerable urban infrastructure opportunities. This means that it is expected that China’s expenditures in construction will continue to grow through 2019, powered by an increase in urban population, continued industrialisation, expanding foreign investment and rising personal income levels. In addition to this, ‘the government’s effort to sustain growth in the manufacturing sector, improve the country’s infrastructure, expand municipal utilities, and balance regional

    • 993 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Better Essays

    Data Acquisition has been seen as vulnerable and is noted as a severe threat to the nation’s critical infrastructure. James R. Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, states, “Critical infrastructure, particularly the Industrial Control Systems (ICS)

    • 1508 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays