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The 22nd floor was later occupied by peer-to-peer lending firm Prosper Marketplace. [citation needed] 111 Sutter Street was the fictional location of the "Spade & Archer" detective agency in Dashiell Hammett's 1930 book, "The Maltese Falcon". According to Hammett, Sam Spade's office was located on the 5th floor. [citation needed]
United Kingdom safety legislation has defined construction workers as people "who work for or under the control of a contractor on a construction site." [ 3 ] In Canada, this can include people whose work includes ensuring conformance with building codes and regulations and those who supervise other workers.
Since the early 1940s, literature on communication in construction has appeared, mainly based on the situation in the UK. [4]Many problems concerning communication have been reported, with a focus on intra-supplier communication within the construction sector; demand-supply communication during the design phase; and communication between and within single demand and supply side parties, during ...
Many of the largest exchange points in the world can have hundreds of participants, and some span multiple buildings and colocation facilities across a city. [ 10 ] Since public peering allows networks interested in peering to interconnect with many other networks through a single port, it is often considered to offer "less capacity" than ...
A concrete girder bridge pier during construction prior to installation of the bridge deck and parapets, consisting of multiple angled pylons for support (bottom), a horizontal concrete cap (center), and girders (top) with temporary wood bracing A quadruple compound pier supporting the fly-over at the traffic junction 24 Oktoberplein (Utrecht ...
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction is a 1977 book on architecture, urban design, and community livability.It was authored by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein of the Center for Environmental Structure of Berkeley, California, with writing credits also to Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King and Shlomo Angel.
Peer, one of several functional units in the same layer of a network; See Peer group (computer networking) Peer (networking) , a computer system connected to others on a network Peer, a computer network in a voluntary interconnection of administratively separate Internet networks in peering
Architectural practices generally employ an office manager who may have at their disposal an administration assistant or team of assistants. Project management is increasingly a role played by an independent consultant, especially during the construction phase.