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The Whole Building Design Guide or WBDG is guidance in the United States, described by the Federal Energy Management Program as "a complete internet resource to a wide range of building-related design guidance, criteria and technology", and meets the requirements in guidance documents for Executive Order 13123. [1]
A/E/C CAD Standard, Tri-service (USACE/Air Force/NAVFAC) CAD standard created/maintained by the CAD/BIM Technology Center for Facilities, Infrastructure, and Environment... [1] SIA 2014 (1996), Swiss standard for engineers and architects, based on ISO 13567.
NAVFAC is an abbreviation for Naval Facility. The term may refer to: Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC), the engineering command and its subordinate organizations; Naval Facility (NAVFAC), cover name for one of the classified shore terminal/processing facilities for the U.S. Navy's Sound Surveillance System
The P-61 radar operator occupied a separate compartment in the rear of the fuselage accessed from a hatch below. In August 1940, sixteen months before the United States entered the war, the U.S. Air Officer in London, Lieutenant General Delos C. Emmons, was briefed on British research in radar ("Radio Detection And Ranging" as it was then known), which had been underway since 1935, and had ...
BS 7373-2:2001 Product specifications. Guide to identifying criteria for a product specification and to declaring product conformity [5] BS 7373-3:2005, Product specifications. Guide to identifying criteria for specifying a service offering [6] A design/product specification does not necessarily prove a product to be correct or useful in every ...
A design team for a major building project will often require a specific technical design experience by professional consultants, such as a kitchen consultant, lighting consultant, audio-visual consultant, landscape architect, and/or am elevator consultant to supplement the technical work of the architect and engineer. It is expected by the ...
A paternoster in Prague Paternoster elevator in The Hague, when it was still in operation. A paternoster (/ ˌ p eɪ t ər ˈ n ɒ s t ər /, / ˌ p ɑː-/, or / ˌ p æ-/) or paternoster lift is a passenger elevator which consists of a chain of open compartments (each usually designed for two people) that move slowly in a loop up and down inside a building without stopping.
The invention of the elevator was a precondition for the invention of skyscrapers, given that most people would not (or could not) climb more than a few flights of stairs at a time. The elevators in a skyscraper are not simply a necessary utility like running water and electricity, but are in fact closely related to the design of the whole ...