Profile of a Builder
● Intuition
○ Ability to figure it out
● Innovativeness
○ Willing to try new things, “Innovate”
■ New materials
● Switched materials from wood to steel
○ Advantage
■ Different material
○ Disadvantage
■ Have to retrain the crew
■ New Techniques
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● Creativity - Inventiveness - Ingenuity
○ All three added up = Resourcefulness
■ Kite over Niagara Falls
● Steel bridge needed to be put
● Few kite across, then that pulled a rope, then that pulled a steel
rope
■ Alcan highway
● WW2 US wanted road in Alaska
● 1,528 mile long
● Barge put at an angle so river will push it to the other side
● Builder profile & Concepts
○ Owner establishes NEED
○ Phases
■ Design
■ Building
○ Designer & Builder - Same person at first
○ Origins of the Architect and the master builder
● Emergence of the specialist
○ Why change?
■ Complexity of con.
○ Architect - Aesthetic designer
○ Engineer - Structural designer
● Builder responsibilities
○ Provide
■ Labor force
■ Site access
● Sometimes you gotta figure it out
○ EX
■ Building in a city - ez pz
■ Building in the middle of nowhere - not so EZ PZ
■ equipment/tools
● Backhoes , trains, concrete pumps
● Workers sometimes supply their own tools
■ Falsework
● Temporary shit
● Scaffolding, formwork, etc
■ Site utilities
● Electrical power
● Internet connection
● Trash pick up
● Sanitary facilities
■ Permits & inspections
● Make sure everything is up to code
● Great Wheel
○ Basically like a human powered crane
● Hoover Dam
○ One death per million dollars
● Builder’s knowledge
○ Understand the “process”
○ Know material properties
○ Measure performance of trades
○ Know quality
○ Responsible
■ Protect from theft, weather, etc
● Responsibilities of someone else, AKA not builder
○ Financing
○ Site selection criteria
■ Terrian
■ Soil condition
■ Proximity to materials & services
● Comparison to today
○ Everyone does something different
● Standardizing Measurements
○ Egyptians
■ Cubit
○ Greeks and romans
■ Some type of standardization
○ Middle ages
■ Inch, foot, yard
● Changes by king and queen
● Not until Napoleon
○ Started a standardized measurements
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