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Use your ideas to develop criteria for a successful building project. (Work in pairs.)

PROJECT CASE

STUDY

SYSTEM

Katy Mills Workforce

Training & Child

Care Facility - Katy,

Texas

Client Project

Adjacent to Katy Mills Mall in Katy, Texas, the Houston Community College wanted to create a System Childcare Center and Workforce Training Center in order to provide affordable education, healthcare and daycare programs to underprivileged adults. The Workforce Training Center would allow people to acquire skills in various fields and offer them the opportunity for employment within the surrounding community. The Childcare Center, administered through a contract between HCCS and Katy’s Early Childhood Enrichment Center, would provide a safe, enriching learning environment for children.

Client Need

Houston Community College needed to build a new facility to accommodate the adult education classes and daycare program. They chose modular construction due to a limited time frame. Houston Community College’s primary contractor awarded the project to Williams Scotsman because of their design-build capabilities.

Katy Mills Mall was originally opposed to modular buildings on its premises, so Williams Scotsman assisted the college with a design concept that had a more permanent appearance.

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The Williams Scotsman Solution

Williams Scotsman provided a custom 11,520 square foot building with an “L” shaped configuration. This configuration was used to provide two distinct areas, one being conducive to the childcare aspect and the other appropriate for a training center. A main entry canopy was designed and constructed by Williams Scotsman, contributing to the permanent look of the building. The addition of hardi-panel stucco exterior siding, vivid color combinations and geometrically configured windows helped to finish the appearance. The company used the Concurrent Construction process, which saved time, allowing the building construction to begin off site while the actual location was prepared.

The Result

Houston Community College was excited with their new modular building from Williams Scotsman. The completed building exceeded their expectations. “We are quite pleased with the results. The building meets our quality requirements, is highly functional, and aesthetically pleasing. We have received many compliments.” Dr. Lee Murdy, Houston Community College Representative.

	Activity 2.	You work for a building company bidding on the contract to
		build a new university in your city.

1.Develop a project for the tender using a PROJECT CASE STUDY OF

HOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM as an example.

2. Prepare an oral presentation of your project. Use presentation guidelines and useful language to help you:

Presentation Guidelines

Determine your purpose

Use these questions as a guide: What do I want the audience to know /to believe /to do when I’ve finished the presentation?

Analyze your audience

Determine audience’s level of experience or knowledge about your topic, general education level and age of your audience, audience’s attitude toward the topic, etc.

Gather information

Keep in mind you should give the audience only the facts necessary to accomplish your goals.

Structure the presentation

Take into account listeners remember openings and closings best.

Use visual aids

Use charts, graphs, and illustrations (drawings and photos) and computer-presentation software.

Practice the presentation

Practice out loud. Make eye contact, use movement and gestures.

Don’t read your presentation.

Talk to your audience. Use your notes as prompts as needed.

Group presentation

Share the work load. Make the presentation look unified – not like separate presentations put together. Give equal presentation time to each group member

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	Useful language
Introducing the topic	Giving an example
First. I'll give you some basic	For example, ...
information.	A good example of this is...
Let me start by ...	To illustrate this point, ...
I’ll start by ...
First of all, I’ll ...	Dealing with questions/explaining a point
Starting with ...	to come later
I’d like to begin by ...	I’ll deal with this later, if I may, but for now
	…
Reaching the end of a point	I’ll come back to this question later in my
Right, I've told you about...	talk.
We’ve looked at...	I won’t comment on this now ...
That’s all I have to say about...	We’ll be examining this question in more
So much for ...	detail later on.
Moving on to the next point	Summarising/concluding
Let me turn now to ...	Let’s recap, shall we?
Let’s move on to ...	I’d like to sum up now ...
Turning to ...	Let me summarise briefly what I’ve said
I’d like now to ...	Let me remind you, finally, of some of the
Next...	points I’ve made.
Let’s look now at...	If I can just sum up the main points ...
	To conclude, I want to tell you about ...
Developing/analyzing a point	Finally, a few words about ...
Where does that take us?	Thanks very much for listening to my talk.
Let’s look at this in more detail.	Thanks for coming to my presentation
Translated into real terms, ...
What does that mean for us?	Sequencing
	Firstly... secondly.. .thirdly... lastly...
	First of all... then .. .next... after that...
	finally... last of all...
	To start with ... later...to finish up

3. Listen to each other’s presentations. Make notes as you listen and assess the project as if you are the members of the Housing Committee, choose the best one for the new university. Use the criteria you have developed for a successful building project.

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The list of web sites used in the course:

1.http://www.uq.edu.au/civeng/index.html

2.http://www.acinet.org/acinet/occ_intro.asp?id=l,&nodeid=l

3.http://www.asce.org/kids/tech.cfm

4.http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos030.htm

5.http://www.kiwicareers.govt.nz/jobs/4a_civ/j28110e.htm

6.http://www.kiwicareers.govt.nz/jbyi/famfrm.htm

7.http://www.bconstructive.co.uk/onsite/diaries.asp?sub_section=99

8.http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

9.http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

10.http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/docs/xla/elal5b.html

11.http://www.powerbiltsteelbuildings.com/?trackcode=bizcom

12.http://www.buildingdesign.co.uk/arch/kingspan-metl-con/kingspan- metl-con.htm

13.http://www.yorkon.co.uk/sector-education.dc

14.http://www.willscot.com/modular_building/index.html

15.http://www.ice.org.uk/about_ice/index.asp

16.http://www.moydom.ru/movable/bar.html

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17.http://www.toolbase.org/ToolbaseResources/level4CaseStudies.aspx?C ontentDetailID=2469&BucketID=2&CategoryID=58

18.http://www.portafab.com/modular_vs_construction.shtml

19.http://www.buyerzone.com/industrial/modular_buildings/why_modular

.html 20.http://www.starrco.com/modularoffices/index.htiul?agy=Overture&cm

p=active&ctv=modular+building&typ=p4p&source=Overture&OVRA W=modular%20buildings&OVKEY=modular%20building&OVMTC= standard

21.http://www.workspaceplus.com/mobile_office.htm

22.http://www.willscot.com/products/mobileofficel.html

23.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

24.http://www.mbmi.biz/index.php?page=buildings_terms#P

25.http://www.epsmolders.org/3.html

26.http://www.construction-guide.com/prefabricated- buildings.htm?keyword=prefabricatedbuilding&engine=google&contextual=no

27.http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/jobseeker/jobsearch/search_results.html?keyw ords_all=CONSTRUCTION+ENGINEER&industry1=&city1=&state1 =&country1=USA&search_type_form=quick&updated_since=sixtyday s&basicsearch=0&advancedsearch=0&metro_area=1&search=Search& kw=CONSTRUCTION+ENGINEER

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29.http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry?id=7299

30.http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RAstephensonR.htm

31.http://www.aerialarts.com/History/history.htm

32.http://www.ieaust.org.au/membership/professional.html

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36.http://www.hero.ac.uk/uk/universities__colleges/eastern/university_of _cambridge.cfm

37.http://www.isc.anglia.ac.uk/built/ceng_overview.htm

38.http://www.a-s-r.ru/tabid/201 /Default.aspx

39.http://www.prospects.ac.uk/cms/ShowPage/Home_page/Explore_job_s ectors/Construction/Key_roles/p!egFjkd

40.http://www.dfes.gov.uk/nvq/what.html

41.www.citbni.org.uk, www.constructionskills.net

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CONTENTS

Предисловие ………………………………………………………………………………. 3

Unit 1 On a construction site…………………………………………………………..5

Unit 2 Prefabricated building…………………………………………………………16

Unit 3 New Technologies in Construction…………………………………………...31

Unit 4 Case study “A building project” ……………………………………………..48

Bibliography ………………………………………………………………………………..54

Наталья Викторовна Патяева Ирина Александровна Витько Екатерина Александровна Самохина

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