HEALTH AND SAFETY ASSIGNMENT.

Health and Safety Assignment.



Health and Safety Assignment

Introduction

How exciting malls are in terms of architectural and interior design! Just by going around the heart of any major city and seeing new steel and glass structures stretching towards the sky, many people may feel that shopping malls are a perfect destination for a combination of shopping and entertainment. Plaza Construction faces a unique data communication problem that is directly related to its business. The problem: frequent movement of communication lines and the common accidental cutting of these lines located on construction sites. Most companies are concerned about downtime from lost data communications, but at a construction site it's a matter of how often it will happen, not if it will happen. In the construction management business, on-site change management and delivery changes directly affect cost and budget management. Time is literally money, and downtime costs can be huge.

Design

Design columns, bearing walls, and foundations for future loads. Design details to facilitate splicing future columns. In preparing design analyses, use live load reductions permissible for future gross areas. Design columns for the more critical of the two possible interacting future load conditions (combinations of bending moment and axial load). Base wind and seismic analyses on gross projected future configuration and mass of building. If the planned future expansion includes additional stories intended to align with an existing floor, depress the roof slab 50 mm (2 in.) minimum below the existing finished floor to receive a future leveling topping for the future functional floor. Provide removable floor slabs, wall panels, etc., for future openings for stairways and elevator and other shafts. For record purposes, note structural design assumptions on contract drawings. Indicate future column loads and also gross loads used in designing original structures on column schedules.

Major Component

Building System that is 10% or more of the cost of the facility.

Critical Building Systems

The following is a list of typical, but not limited to, design for critical building systems which impact service life of facilities:

Roofs

Provide long-lived and leak-free roofs. Geometry of very large buildings dictates a flat roof, restricting the choice of materials to built-up or single-ply membranes. Smaller buildings may have pitched roofs, allowing more material options, such as asphalt shingles, metal, or tile.

Windows

Design windows for low maintenance, trouble-free operation, weather-tightness, insulating value, security (in psychiatric areas), and appearance. Operable windows are the easiest and least costly type if the facility cleans its windows with in-house staff. For large scale facilities, such as hospitals, the most satisfactory type are side-hinged windows. Fixed windows (non-opening) are less costly initially and may last indefinitely since they have no moving parts. However, fixed windows have higher maintenance cost since they must be washed from the outside, usually by professional window washers

Interiors

Use materials that are typically hard surfaced and durable and have an architecturally pleasing appearance. Damage to finishes may occur more frequently because of extended footrests on wheelchairs or type of patients, such as those with substance abuse or psychological ...