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http://www.LCE.com Dave Berube, of Life Cycle Engineering, discusses how to coach a Maintenance Supervisor. The three areas of focus for a maintenance supervisor are Job Safety, Job Quality and Job Efficiency. LCE uses a coaching card to maintain focus on these three areas.

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By Chris Matt, Managing Editor - Print & E-Media Maintenance & Operations Article Use Policy

Johnathan Morris' job description reads more like a short novel. As director of facilities for Chukchansi Gold Resort & Casino, Morris oversees the maintenance and engineering department, manages the resort facility's landscaped areas, and coordinates construction and renovation projects.

That level of responsibility can be overwhelming. But being involved in all facets of the organization helps Morris understand the collaborative effort necessary to take on a major construction or renovation project.

New construction projects offer organizations a clean slate, eliminating the potential maintenance and engineering challenges posed by large-scale renovations or additions to existing buildings.

Maintenance's Role

Managers at Chukchansi Gold Resort & Casino near Yosemite National Park in Coarsegold, Calif., discovered those challenges when they decided to add an 11-story, 150,000-square-foot hotel to the casino. Fortunately, Morris relied on experts on the construction and maintenance sides to ensure the project not only was completed according to design intent but also was maintainable.

"It's critical," Morris says. "Having the maintenance (managers) and general maintenance staff being a part of the expansion while things are going on is huge so they can understand the systems, connection points, and valve locations.

"Fortunately, as the director of facilities overseeing the department and acting as the liaison between the two (construction and maintenance), I was able to make sure I had my maintenance staff and my management involved throughout the entire project."

Chukchansi completed the $100 million project, which includes the construction of a training facility and parking garage, in August 2008. Maintenance and engineering staff faced minor hurdles during the construction process and soon after the building began operating. But now it is business as usual for the resort facility.

"I think we really reaped the benefits of the early involvement," Morris says of his 40-person, full-time maintenance staff. "Having the maintenance department familiar with the new expansion and where things are, that was probably the biggest key component to now having a year behind us. It's definitely a big thing for us and a key factor."

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If Hobbits built a luxury hotel, it would probably look something like the new design concept from Stefano Boeri Architetti's (SBA) hill-inspired Mountain Forest Hotel, a 250-room vertical forest that appears to grow right out of the surrounding landscape.

According to SBA's website, this is actually SBA's third vertical forest design, the first prototype appearing in Milan, which was then followed up with The Tower of the Cedars in Lausanne, Switzerland. While the Mountain Forest Hotel uses many of the same design principles as those previous efforts, the hotel has been specifically designed from and inspired by Guizhou, China's topography, an area known as the 10 thousand peaks valley. The specific design of the hotel looks to reconstruct a former hill that was flattened out years ago.

SBA does not view these vertical forests as a gimmick or a novelty, but, instead, a necessity. "The symbiosis between man, architecture and nature is the real sustainability," SBA writes about the project on its website. "Following the first prototype in Milan, then in Lausanne, the Vertical Forest is continuously consolidated as a model for a sustainable urbanization."

Symbiosis and sustainability may be the key, but this is still designed as a luxury hotel, meaning it includes such features as a gym, lounge, VIP area, bar, restaurant, and conference room.
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1. Rigid frame structure

Which are further subdivided into:

Pin ended

Pin Ended Rigid Structural Frames
A pinned ended rigid frame system usually has pins as their support conditions. This frame system is considered to be non rigid if its support conditions are removed.

Fixed ended

Fix Ended Rigid Frame Structure:

In this type of rigid frame systems end conditions are usually fixed.

2. Braced frame structure

Which is further subdivided into:

Gabled frames

Gabeled Structural Frame:

Gabled frame structures usually have the peak at their top. These frames systems are in use where there are possibilities of heavy rain and snow.

Portal frames

Portal Structural Frame

Portal structural frames usually look like a door. This frame system is very much in use for construction of industrial and commercial buildings

Rigid Structural Frame

The word rigid means ability to resist the deformation. Rigid frame structures can be defined as the structures in which beams & columns are made monolithically and act collectively to resist the moments which are generating due to applied load.

Braced Structural Frames

In this frame system, bracing are usually provided between beams and columns to increase their resistance against the lateral forces and side ways forces due to applied load. Bracing is usually done by placing the diagonal members between the beams and columns.

This frame system provides more efficient resistance against the earthquake and wind forces. This frame system is more effective than rigid frame system

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