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Craft Entry for Minorities: The Case of Project JUSTICE [PDF]

open access: yes, 1971
[Excerpt] Demonstrations in Chicago and Pittsburgh in 1969 focused national attention on the problem of the racial integration of the building trades.
Lipsky, David B, Rose, Joseph B
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Standing at a Crossroads: The Building Trades in the Twenty-First Century [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
American building trades unions have historically played a critical and stabilizing role in the nation’s construction industry, establishing uniform standards and leveling the competitive playing field.
Erlich, Mark, Grabelsky, Jeffrey
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Visual Management of Daily Construction Site Space Use

open access: yesFrontiers in Built Environment, 2020
Space is a construction resource not to be overlooked during project scheduling, production planning, and control. When space use over time is not planned, trades may get stacked in areas of the jobsite that are labor intensive, which may hamper ...
Audrey M. Bascoul   +2 more
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ASSESSMENT OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELS DERIVED FROM LIDAR AND TLS DATA [PDF]

open access: yesThe International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2012
This paper suggests the use of specific methods for assessing the geometry of 3D building models, by considering models extracted automatically from terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) data and aerial laser scanning (ALS) data.
T. Landes   +3 more
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'The Most Expert in Europe': Patents and Innovation in the Building Trades in the Early Dutch Republic (1580−1650)

open access: yesArchitectural Histories, 2019
Famous early modern engineering feats in architecture, such as Brunelleschi’s dome in Florence, have traditionally been presented in historiography as the accomplishments of individual ‘authorial’ figures.
Merlijn Hurx
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Quand le monde professionnel rencontre le monde de la recherche et font expérience commune

open access: yesRecherches en Éducation, 2023
This article aims to approach the collective and collaborative dimensions of research conducting, to understand the effects produced by the engagement of a research activity by and on professionals and to specify the chosen methodological options.
Richard Wittorski   +2 more
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"The Blacks Should Not Be Administering the Philadelphia Plan": Nixon, the Hard Hats, and “Voluntary” Affirmative Action [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
History of the "racial reconciliation" staged by building trades unions and President Richard Nixon, through which building trades union leaders taught Nixon how to reach out to organized labor and the white working class for the 1972 election in ...
Trevor Griffey
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Recovering the heritage and building traditions of the village of Tacora, Chile

open access: yesJournal of Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism, 2020
Tacora is a village in the Chilean highlands with an extraordinary natural and cultural landscape. During the last years, its population has migrated massively to the city of Arica.
Martina Bocci, Beatriz Yuste
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Ingénierie et grands travaux. Les fondations du cirque d’Arles

open access: yesArchéopages, 2012
The Roman circus at Arles, whose construction began in the years AD 148–149, required major investment in its building; it is, along with the amphitheatre and the forum, one of the largest “major projects” undertaken in the town. The building, on a knoll
Claude Sintès
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Former Colonial Souk of Tablaba, Taghjijt, Guelmim-Oued Noun

open access: yesJournal of Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism, 2023
This article describes the rehabilitation of the former colonial market of Tablaba, in the Guelmim-Oued Noun region of southern Morocco. In an old palm grove shared by the Tekna and Ayt Herbil tribes, a colonial souk was built in 1940 with local ...
Salima Naji
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