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manager in charge of he Cambridge Road AS: Thank you. What amenities do you mean?
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Hospital project. You must be M r Schmidt. SR: Let's see. We have t w o banks, a gift shop, wo cafes,
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AS: Yes, that's right. Pleased o meet you. a restaurant, a bookshop, a post office, a oy shop.
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3 SR: Before we start, w o u l d y o u like coffee? Oh, and a fruit shop.
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AS: Yes, please. W i t h milk and one sugar, please. AS: A n d he roof? How high is it?
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SR: The height rom the op of the roof to the ground is
4 SR: OK. How about if I ntroduce o u o he team
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first? Then we can look at the designs and y o u 25 m. There are five floors n the building. As I said,
can ask any questions y o u have. the passage is glass and the rest of the building has
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AS: That sounds perfect. a russed roof w i t h terracotta tiles.
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AS: I have to leave at 11.30. So we've got about an [AS = A r n o l d Schmidt; SR = Susana Ramirez]
hour.
1 SR: These are the doors we plan o use n Block A.
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AS: Excuse me - GRP?
[SR = Susana Ramirez; RM = Rowena M u r p h y ; AS =
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A r n o l d Schmidt; T M = Thomas McNamara; JZ = Julita SR: Glass reinforced polyester. It's ery easy to
Zielinski; NO = Nasim Orgun] clean and it doesn't have the same problems
SR: So, this is Rowena Murphy. that wooden or steel doors have. For example,
RM: Pleased o meet you. wood rots and metal rusts.
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AS: What do y o u do here, Rowena? AS: I see.
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RM: I'm a Structural Engineer. I do all the calculations o SR: We're using a local manufacturer as the main
make sure the buildings stay up. supplier, Hingewell Doors.
AS: I see. AS: Hingewell Doors? Yes, I know the owner. That's
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SR: A n d his is Thomas McNamara. He's a student good.
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working w i t h us for six months. He's w o r k i n g on a 2 AS: What about he water supply? I understand
residential project at he moment - a block of flats there are some problems.
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in the centre of o w n . An unusual feature is the SR: Yes, the water supply is a little difficult due
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garden on he roof. to the location. There are problems with the
AS: How do y o u do? water pressure. It's not reliable. Sometimes it's
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T M : Pleased o meet you. too high and sometimes it's too low.
AS: What are y o u studying, Thomas? AS: I see.
T M : Civil engineering. 1 hope to graduate next year. 3 AS: What about parking?
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AS: Good luck. SR: Yes, parking is difficult n this part of own. We
T M : Thanks. have plans for a multi-storey car park.
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SR: A n d this is Julita Zielinski. She's our Team AS: Isn't hat expensive?
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Assistant. She's n charge of he staff schedule, so SR: Yes, it is. But there's no other solution. We
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she makes sure we are all in he ight place at the need to have parking for visitors.
right time. AS: Yes, of course.
AS: Hello, Julita. <5»44
JZ: Hello.
SR: Julita's also the only one w h o knows how to fix the A The r o o m is rectangular.
photocopier. B The truss is triangular.
AS: A h . C The rod is circular.
SR: This is Nasim Orgun, our Bookkeeper. She looks D The damper is spherical.
after our finances. E The girder is I-shaped.
AS: Hi! F The beam is square.
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NO: Hello. G The can is ylindrical.
SR: Erm. A n d that's it. We have four more employees, £ > 4 5
but they're all out of the office at the moment. One
is on holiday and the others are either isiting 1 cylinder cylindrical
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clients or on site. 2 rectangle rectangular
AS: OK. 3 triangle triangular
4 circle circular
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SR: This is Block A. This is all new. The basic design is A: Let's do the I-shaped cross-section first. All
arcade structure. This means that there's a central dimensions are in inches. The flange w i d t h is 12.855
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passage d o w n the middle of the block, w i t h rooms and he flange thickness is 0.960.
on each side. The passage is glass covered. B: 12.855 and 0.960. Right.
AS: How long is the passage? A: The web thickness is 0.605.
SR: The passage is 250 m ong and 16 m wide, so it B: OK.
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has an area of 4000 m 2 . There are shops and other A: The beam height is 24.48 and the area is 38.5 n 2 .
amenities on each side, on the ground floor. B: 38.5. OK.
AS: Sorry. Did y o u say the length is 250 m? A: Now, the standard channel cross-section. Again, all
SR: Yes, that's ight. dimensions are in inches. The depth is 15, the width
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