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Key Terms! !

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Moment - a force multiplied by a lever arm, producing a turning effect.1! !

Retaining wall - a structure used to sustain the pressure of the earth behind it or to lateral pressure.2!

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Pad Footing - an isolated foundation that is square or rectangular in plan and used to distribute point loads to the ground.!

Steel rods are usually used to reinforce the footing and ensure a strong connection of the adjoining fixture to the pad footing.3!

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Strip footing - a continuous foundation of which the length considerably exceeds the breadth. ! !

Slab-on-grade - a concrete slab placed on grade, sometimes having insulation board or an impervious membrane beneath it. ! !

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Substructure - the foundation of a building that supports the superstructure.6! !

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New School of Design Building

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Queen’s College

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Queen’s College

Frank Tate Pavilion

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Old Geology South Lecture Theatre

Oval Pavilion (north side)

Column and beam structures (all of above):!

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Old Geology: the brick facade is not structural, the building is actually supported by coated steel column and beam structural system. !

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Redmond Barry: the columns are visible form the outside, whereas the SoD columns are seen inside the building.

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Redmond Barry

New School of Design Building

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Cantilever

New School of Design Building

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John Smyth Building: Masonry Weep holes: build in here above the door from/below the floor of the flooring of the level above. !

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These weep holes indicate that this addition to the John Smyth building is a cavity construction. !

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Stretcher bond with a brick-oneedge course above the door frame.

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Beaurepaire Centre Pool Extensions:!

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It is visible that the left part of the photo is an extension to the original building because the bricks in the corner are not bonded together.

English Bond:!

These bricks have been laid in an English bond, where every second row the header face is showing, alternating courses of headers and stretchers = a solid wall. It is the strongest bond for a one-brickthick wall.

Longer bricks were used for a while but were not liked by builders so not many buildings are seen around Melbourne with this type of brick.

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1888 Building

I’ve always thought that the decorative patterned corners were a different material, a stone.

The light pattern is just rendered bricks, so the construction of the corners was no different to the rest of the visible brick walls.

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North Court Union House

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Cracked bricks: expansion

North Court Union House

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References!

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1, 3 - Gorse, C. A., Johnston, D., & Pritchard, M. (Hons), PhD. (2012). A dictionary of construction, surveying, and civil engineering [electronic resource] / by Christopher Gorse, David Johnston, Martin Pritchard. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. !

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2, 5, 4, 6 - Dictionaryofconstruction.com, (2014). What is retaining wall? definition and meaning. [online] Available at: http:// www.dictionaryofconstruction.com/definition/retaining-wall.html [Accessed 21 Aug. 2014].

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