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Architectural Technologist – A new wind map
Streamlines of wind direction over North America 2 February 2009 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I found this windmap site via a Google+ posting yesterday, its a remarkable new program that takes national...
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Architectural Technologist – Global Sanitation and Water
Thomas Crapper (Photo credit: Wikipedia) It always amuses me at the vast amount of water our existing WC‘s use globally, well some one at FastCoexist seems to think the same, this article is a good...
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Architectural Technologist – Rainwater and our need to understand water tables
windmap (Photo credit: Scays) You might well want to read this excellent article by Trevor Bishop Head of Water Resources at the Environment Agency, re the rain we have been enduring for the past...
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Architectural Technologist – A technical overview of Venice
English: Taken from the Rialto Bridge, a lone gondolier takes his gondola up the Grand Canal. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This 20 min film on the technical aspects of Venice is really quite good, from...
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Architectural Technologist – Why bend a path to one side when you can go both...
Both sides of a tree (Photo credit: Scays) As you might be aware, I have been walking, down in deepest Surry over the weekend, walking on the various commons, and we happen to go to a rather wet...
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Architectural Technologist – LG’s Flexible E-Paper Display
For some time, its been obvious that paper still rules on a site, despite the arrival of the iPad, iPhone and a plethery of equaly good electronic devices, why, well they are easily damaged and cost a...
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Architectural Technologist – Siphonic drainage Vs Traditional gutter
I had an email recently, asking about the use of Vacuum flat roof drainage systems Vs old fashioned gravity drains and gutters. Now I have only ever worked on one job were we used aVacuum or more...
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Architectural Technologist – Wolfgang Kessling reveals sustainable design...
An impressive title, but one I think is worthy of the subject, discussed in this video, given at one of the many TED (conference) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) TED conferences. Having spent many days in...
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Architectural Technologist – Learning from Sandy
In the aftermath of the hurricane hitting New York, what can we as Architectural Technologists learn from this. I have been adding thoughts to my CPD records, looking at the effects not only on the...
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Architectural Technologist – New York and the effects of Sandy
Have a read of this excellent article re the effects of Sandy on New York, the areas that were affected and what the author thinks needs to be done. He is probably right, in that sea levels are going...
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Architectural Technologist – The hot weather
After a long week of very hight temperatures in the UK, this morning I awoke to a relatively cool cloudy morning, it's still quite hot, but cooler than yesterday. But lets step back and look at the...
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Architectural Technologist – Foggy Weather
This morning, and for that matter yesterday too, the weather at 6:50 am was,, well decidedly cold, so much my car was frozen over, and I had to take drastic measures with a scrapper to remove the use...
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Architectural Technologist – The Weather and my CPD
This week I shall be continuing a lecture I started last week on the effects of weather on almost any construction site. If you have worked on site, it's the weather that holds up so many things, even...
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