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After more than 35 years "in the trenches" as an architect, specialist consultant and now quality director for a large North American construction company, Brian Palmquist has written An Architect's Guide to Construction in order to share a balanced wealth of knowledge and experience about the construction phase of building projects.
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LanguageEnglish
PublisherQuality-by-Design Software Ltd
Release dateApr 30, 2015
ISBN9780993987625
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Brian Palmquist
Brian Palmquist is an Honours graduate of the McGill University School of Architecture. In addition to his forty years of professional practice, he has taught students, interns and design and construction professionals about construction administration for more than twenty-five years, both in courses and at more than fifty national and international presentations. Brian lives in Vancouver, Canada. He is available for speaking, teaching and consulting engagements. To inquire, please visit anarchitectsguide.com or email him at brian@quality-by-design.ca.
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An Architect's Guide to Construction - Brian Palmquist
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Making Commitments Assurance Letters
The evidence before this Commission is clear that the waterproofing of the roof failed virtually from the outset. The logical course of action would have been to undertake early and effective remedial measures to protect a valuable asset. Successive owners neglected to do so, and the consequences of that neglect were tragic.
¹ – The Honourable Paul R. Belanger, Commissioner, Report of the Elliot Lake Commission of Inquiry, 2014
Figure 14 - Location of the Elliot Lake Collapse²
Their report attributes the cause of failure to an undersized steel beam in a Cantilever-Suspended Span arrangement and inadequate buckling resistance of the beam compression flange. In addition to the technical errors were a number of procedural deficiencies in the project delivery system.
³–Station Square Commission Report,
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