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Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work 1950 Former medical office building purchased by university 254-256 McCaul Street [RM] 1912 263 McCaul Street [OA] Faculty of Medicine 1915 C.H. Bishop Formerly headquarters of the Toronto Board of Education, called the Old Admin Building. Connected to the Health Sciences Building via an elevated walkway.
Core-and-veneer, brick and rubble, wall and rubble, ashlar and rubble, and emplekton all refer to a building technique where two parallel walls are constructed and the core between them is filled with rubble or other infill, creating one thick wall. [1] Originally, and in later poorly constructed walls, the rubble was not consolidated.
The bibliographic database (without full-text dissertations) is known as Dissertation Abstracts or Dissertation Abstracts International. PQDT annually publishes more than 90% of all dissertations submitted from accredited institutions of higher learning in North America as well as from colleges and universities in Europe and Asia.
For Post and Lintel System ICFs, the concrete has a horizontal member, called a lintel, only at the top of the wall (Horizontal concrete at the bottom of the wall is often present in the form of the building's footer or the lintel of the wall below.) and vertical members, called posts, between the lintel and the surface on which the wall is ...
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Despite its benefits, the buttressed core system also has some drawbacks: **Complexity:** The design and construction process can be more complex and require specialized knowledge and skills. **Cost:** Initial costs may be higher due to the need for precise engineering and high-quality materials.
In architecture, a core is a vertical space used for circulation and services. It may also be referred to as a circulation core or service core. A core may include staircases, elevators, electrical cables, water pipes and risers. A core allows people to move between the floors of a building, and distributes services efficiently to the floors.
Through a design competition, Nader Tehrani, principal of the internationally acclaimed architecture firm NADAAA, and collaborator Katie Faulkner were chosen to lead the design. Toronto consultants Public Work were chosen as the landscape designers, ERA Architects as the preservation architects, and Adamson Associates as the executive ...