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Part 8 — Door & Window Schedules | Sheet by Sheet

Nobody reads the schedules. Until a window shows up in the wrong size. Then everybody reads the schedules. Door and window schedules are the coordination backbone of any residential set. They connect what's shown on the floor plan to what gets ordered, delivered, and installed. When they're wrong — or when nobody checked them — the consequences show up at the worst possible time. What it shows: Every door and window in the project listed by mark number Size — width, height, and rough opening dimensions Type — swing, sliding, fixed, casement, etc. Material and finish — wood, vinyl, aluminum, painted, stained Hardware requirements Fire rating where required Notes on special conditions — tempered glass, egress compliance How schedules connect to the rest of the set: Every door and window on the floor plan has a mark — a number or letter in a circle or tag. That mark links directly to the schedule. The schedule then links to the specificatio...

SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURE

Science is the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. 

Sustainability 

Vauban, Freiburg
Energy-plus-houses at Freiburg-Vauban in Germany
Photo by: Werner Dieterich

(passive solar building design, insulation and careful site selection and placement)

o Sustainable products are both environmentally friendly and more economical. There are several elements of building design and construction that can be more sustainable – including the materials used and machinery involved. 

Natural disasters and new technology

Taipei 101
Tuned mass damper atop Taipei 101
Architect: Chu-Yuan Lee, C. P. Wang
Photo by: Peggy und Marco Lachmann-Anke


o Natural disasters in any nation can be devastating, but without well-designed buildings, the devastation can be significantly worse. Earthquakes are the biggest natural disaster that engineers and architects face, but technology and design is becoming increasingly successful in preventing damage to buildings. 

o The 2011 earthquake in Japan is one of the best example of earthquake engineering working its magic. While the 8.9 magnitude earthquake was devastating further north, in Tokyo there surprisingly little damage due to the strict standards that Japan has on new buildings.

o The most common way to earthquake-proof a building is to use a tuned mass dampener, which sits inside the interior of a building and absorbs the seismic shock.

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