The way employees are organised creates an organisational structure; the type of structure depends a lot on the individual business.

Organisational Structures The way employees are organised creates an organisational structure; the type of structure depends a lot on the individual business, which they choose or fall into can depend on a number of factors: Whether the organisation offers a service or produces goods The geographical scope of its operation The culture of the business The number of employees The aim of the business The activities undertaken to meet these aims The size of the company An organisation chart is a diagram which shows the structure of the organisation. It shows the job titles of the employees and their relationship with each other. Horizontal links show the staff who work with each other and who relate to each other. Vertical links show the staff for whom a particular manager or supervisor is responsible. There are three main types of structure - Flat structure, Hierarchical organisations and matrix structures. Companies that tend to have flat structures are generally quite small. They operate informally, in that everyone will know everyone else and there will be few formal procedures the staff will have to follow. When companies are relatively large they need to have a more complex structure than that of a flat structure; hierarchical organisations or pyramid structures are often what flat structure grow into being. They are taller than flat structures, with the

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Evaluacin Inmobiliaria

MAC Magíster en Administración de la Construcción Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Cámara Chilena de la Construcción INFORME FINAL CASO 1: AV. APOQUINDO - GOLDA MEIR "EDIFICIO PORTADA EL GOLF" Nombre Alumnos: Roberto Advis Jiménez Cristián Fuentes Henríquez Claudio González Espinoza Susana Morales Díaz Paula Recabarren Soto Mauricio Sepúlveda Mora Curso: IAC 3900 Fecha: 20 de mayo de 2008 RESUMEN EJECUTIVO Actualmente, el mercado de oficinas en el sector de El Golf se está tornando crítico por la falta de oferta de metros cuadrados en el barrio, en el cual la tasa de vacancia alcanza a 0.13%, lográndose valores cercanos a las 57 UF/m2. La congestión de este barrio, comprimido contra la Av. Américo Vespucio, ha generado la materialización de algunos proyectos de oficinas al oriente de esta frontera, sin embargo, no han logrado establecer continuidad alguna del barrio. Ante esta situación, el proyecto "Portada El Golf", se presenta no sólo como un nuevo edificio de oficinas, sino que como un hito urbano articulador que logra aprovechar la continuidad peatonal lograda por el Subcentro, lo que permite proyectar la continuidad del barrio El Golf hacia el oriente de Av. Américo Vespucio. El proyecto "Portada El Golf", emplazado entre Av. Apoquindo-Los Militares y Golda Mayer- Hans Andersen, en la comuna de Las Condes, considera la

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'Why was the Royal Crescent Built?'

'Why was the Royal Crescent Built?' AMELIA WALKER 10SC/CRB Firstly, before I begin my essay, I would like to state that there are factors that I will be describing as local factors; which are simply the aspects of the location/city at the time that affected the popularity of Bath, and thus, the building of the Royal Crescent. There will also be factors I will be describing as National factors; which are aspects of the growth of the country in that era, which affected the cities and towns within it (thus affecting Bath also!) ~~~ "The lodgings for visitors were paltry, expensive and dirty. The city was in itself mean and contemptible; no elegant buildings, no open squares, nor uniform streets!" ... was how Bath was described by Oliver Goldsmith in 1702. Bath was nothing more than a small country town at the time; and it was hardly forseeable that it would grow hugely to become quite the opposite within the next century! These huge changes eventually resulted in the building of the Royal Crescent. I will be explaining exactly how the factors within this era, and the location, affected this, and made it become to be built. Bath was described as an unattractive, primitive town, and that suddenly changed dramatically. It grew hugely in popularity, within the first decade of the 18th century; this influenced the prospects of the town; opening doors, and thus, changing the

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A Legionary Fortress.

A Legionary Fortress A Roman legion was much more than a collection of fighting men. The Roman people were great builders and engineers. A lot of this building was done by the army. Some building was for defence, like camps and forts, some for defence and usefulness, like roads and canals, some for the good of everyone, like aqueducts. Every legion did so much building that it always had skilled engineers with it wherever it went. But every ordinary soldier was expected to know something about building operations. Camps and forts were built most often. Every time an army on the march stopped for the night it built a camp. These camps were always constructed in the same way by every legion in all parts of the empire. If a legion expected to stay in one place for some time it built a fort. Other forts were built at key points on the frontier, often near a ford or bridge, at a crossroads, near a mountain pass or harbour. Some forts were much bigger than others. On the Emperor Hadrian's wall, in northern England, some forts held twenty men, others over a thousand. In Trajan's time a camp for two legions, situated on the outskirts of Alexandria, held around ten thousand men. Later in the empire's history several double camps were built to house the defenders of the Danubian frontier. Building a Fort Forts were built of stone, camps of blocks of turf and timber. The methods of

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Impressions of Islamic Architecture

Emmanuel Daskalos ARCH 3152, Mical Nov. 15 2001 Impressions of Islamic Architecture The native architecture of the Middle East, Asia Minor, and parts of southern Asia is known as Islamic. This is based on the culture and religious beliefs that shape the lives of the current inhabitants. While Islam has played a powerfully important role in shaping the structures built by these people, the actual basis of the designs and forms was laid out more than 3000 years before the birth of Islam. The cultures of the "Cradle of Civilization", also known as Mesopotamia, were the original architects of what is, today, referred to as Islamic architecture. Mesopotamia was located in the Middle East and Asia Minor, between the Mediterranean, Red, and Dead Seas. This geographic region is notoriously hot and dry and receives very little rain. These climatic factors were key in the early peoples design of their dwellings and other functional building types. The shape of almost every native house is short roofed and with a central courtyard, creating a form that is a "container". As opposed to a modern Western home, which is "contained". Another very evident aspect of design is the use of local materials. Adobe is the primary method of construction for every building type. The lack of trees and large stone quarries makes this choice quite obvious. The added bonus for this material is its

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Defining Features of the Early Christian Churhc

Maureen McKenzie Sieting AT 105 2 June 2008 Essay Question The differences and similarities from the design of the Early Christian church to the Romanesque church are defining in the fact that one is based upon the other. The Early Christian churches were mostly basilicas, which was then modified and became the cruciform structure of the Romanesque churches. An Early Christian church has some basic components to it. There is the nave that is the center aisle that leads to the apse. The apse is a semicircular projection from the back of the structure opposite the entrance. Running along the sides of the nave are side aisles. Basilicas are long rectangular buildings with a higher ceiling over the apse than the side aisles. At the top of the nave wall at either side were commonly a row of windows called the clerestory to allow in natural light. Many basilicas from the time were built by poor Christians, so examples like Saint Sabina used recycled columns in the construction. The floor was probably originally made with packed dirt and there would have been no seating. Old Saint Peter's basilica was probably built with money donated by Constantine. It wasn't until later, when Christians became accepted and wealthy that basilicas like Sant' Apollinare were built with luxurious items such as gold leaf backed glass in mosaics for extravagant decoration to heighten

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Construction of Atomic Models of Metallic Materials

Construction of Atomic Models of Metallic Materials Intro: Most solids are made up of small crystalline structures in which atoms are arranged in a specific pattern. The atoms of the material are oriented in a given shape and can be divided into the one unit cell, which is repeated throughout the entire solid. The most common crystalline structures are the FCC face center cubic, BCC base center cubic, and HCP hexagonal close-packed structures. Crystalline solids have distinct properties, from other kinds of solid and are why it is important to understand the molecular structure of molecules. All metals and alloys form crystalline structures due to their inter atomic forces orienting them in a three dimensional pattern. These crystalline patterns form the basis of the material but most materials the conditions where these crystalline structures form are non-existent and deformations take place. The orientation of the atoms in a crystalline structure affects the physical properties of the material. The packing planes of these structures allow for different bonding arrangements giving each different physical characteristic. These crystal structures can be looked at as having packing planes. These are planes in which the molecules are stacked amongst each other. Objectives: This experiment was conducted to construct and observe the three main packing systems FCC,

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Great Architectural Feats of the 15th Century

GREAT ARCHITECTURAL FEATS OF THE 15TH CENTURY Nicolas Antippas Mrs. Regina Lanford AP Art History 04/11/2001 Nicolas Antippas Mrs. Regina Lanford AP Art History 04/11/2001 GREAT ARCHITECTURAL FEATS OF THE 15TH CENTURY Filippo Brunelleschi was born in 1377 and died in 1446. Not unlike many great artists of his time in the early fifteenth century, he was trained originally as a goldsmith and entered the Goldsmith's guild in 1404.Before that he had already started to work as a sculptor, since he took part in the competition, held in 1401, for the commission for the new doors of the Baptistery. It was won by Ghiberti, and Brunelleschi went to Rome with Donatello, a sculptor, as soon as he knew that he had lost the competition. Brunelleschi and Donatello must have been close friends and, along with the painter Masaccio, the three of them were the representatives of the most advanced painting, sculpture and architecture of the fifteenth century. The fact that Brunelleschi traveled to Rome on several occasions is very revealing, as it is widely believed that it was his close study of the constructional principles of the surviving Roman ruins which enabled him to devise the means of covering the area of the Cathedral dome, an achievement which has made him famous in Florence. Brunelleschi is said to have created the 'Renaissance style' in architecture. It is certain that he

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Joseph Lister

Joseph Lister Joseph Lister was born at Upton, Essex, England, in 1827, and received his general education at the University of London. After graduation he studied medicine in London and Edinburgh, and became lecturer in surgery at the University in the latter city. Later he was professor of surgery at Glasgow, at Edinburgh, and at King's College Hospital, London, and surgeon to Queen Victoria. He was made a baronet in 1883; retired from teaching in 1893; and was raised to the peerage in 1897, with the title of Baron Lister. He died in 1912. By the middle of the nineteenth century, post-operative sepsis infection accounted for the death of almost half of the patients undergoing major surgery. A common report by surgeons was: operation successfully but the patient died. In 1839 the chemist Justin von Liebig had asserted that sepsis was a kind of combustion caused by exposing moist body tissue to oxygen. It was therefore considered that the best prevention was to keep air away from wounds by means of plasters, collodion or resins. Joseph Lister, a British surgeon, doubted this explanation. For many years he had explored the inflammation of wounds, at the Glasgow infirmary. These observations had led him to considered that infection was not due to bad air alone, and that 'wound sepsis' was a form of decomposition. When the Regius Professorship of Surgery at Glasgow University

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The Straw Bale House, known also as The House of Straw, was the concept, design and accomplishment of Sarah Wigglesworth and her partner Jeremy Till. The idea was to create a modern urban working and living environment discovering solutions to both eco-f

4th November 2009 CANTERBURY SCHOOL of ARCHITECTURE 2009-10 Cultural Context 1: House CARC 1017 Essay Assignment - Ajay Singh Sihra; 0653286 Word Count (INCLUDING REFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY): 1773 Word Count (EXCLUDING REFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY): 1392 Subject Area: Sarah Wigglesworth & Jeremy Till, Straw Bale House (2001) The Straw Bale House, known also as The House of Straw, was the concept, design and accomplishment of Sarah Wigglesworth and her partner Jeremy Till. The idea was to create a modern urban working and living environment discovering solutions to both eco-friendliness and sustainability whilst simultaneously promoting awareness to these factors. But how eco-friendly was the build and the materials used? And now eight years after the completions just how eco-friendly and sustainable is 9 Stock Orchard Street? Before I can examine the ideas behind the design of this build it is better if you first understand the site and layout itself. Firstly the building has an L shape layout with the longer side running perpendicular to the railway line. It has a mixture of levels and combination of vernacular and modern architecture. After entering the site through the willow hurdled front gate you will find, from right to left, the railway line framed by recycled concrete gabions with an inner core of fire regulated reinforced concrete pillars. The office

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