In conjunction with today?s increasing competition within the construction sector, more pressure is being placed on building contractors. Efficiency and improvements are necessary but without impairment to an ergonomic and safe construction site. This in is in order to reduce the construction costs and time but to retain the ability to deliver a high-quality contract.Various methods and prefabrication degrees are used, depending on the project's requirements and conditions. This analysis sets out to investigate and exhibit what qualifications are important when choosing a construction method for curtain walls.Advantages and disadvantages with each method have been analyzed and recommendations have been given to show when different methods are best suited.

This is a paper about the effects from smoldering fire on lithic objects from an archaeological view. The introduction gives the background to this paper, a short orientation to forest wildfires and why the work is limited to: flint, quartz, quartzite and slate. Material and methods describes the stone materials and the setup that was used in the temperature logged tests with three replications for each type of material. The fuel in the burnings was peat on a bottom of sand. Flint showed a more drastic effect from heat compared with the other materials. Slate seems to have greater tendencies to change to darker colour and luster at lower temperatures than the other materials.

Personer som står inför att välja material vid en ny- eller ombyggnad har otroligt mycket att välja emellan. Att göra ett bra val kan innebära olika saker, men för mig är ett bra val att välja ett material som gör så lite skada på vår natur och på oss människor som möjligt. Skada innefattar vanliga fysiska skador och påverkningar, men även dåliga materialval som leder till onödiga kostnader. Att välja ett material som måste underhållas ofta, eller repareras och bytas ut tidigt, är ett dåligt val. Går det sen inte att återanvända eller återvinna grundmaterialet på nytt är det ännu sämre.I min undersökning har jag tittat på fasadmaterial, takmaterial, färger, fönster och dörrar.

Denna uppsats bygger på en kvalitativ intervjuundersökning med fem informanter. Syftet med studien var att undersöka ett antal gymnasielärares syn på användning av läroboksmaterial och autentiskt material i deras engelskundervisning. Fyra av fem informanter i denna undersökning såg autenticitet som en aspekt av texten. Majoriteten av informanterna ansåg vidare att autentiska texter är skapade för andra sammanhang än undervisning. Samtliga informanter föredrog att arbeta med autentiska texter och majoriteten använde en större andel autentiska texter än lärobokstexter samt ansåg att det autentiska materialet bättre förbereder elever för att läsa riktiga texter.

This examination work is performed at the institution of industrial economy and production at Jonkoping technical university, for JELD-WEN Door Solutions plant in Forserum.Today the focus in the company is on to reduce their inventories binding of capitals as well as inventory of products and that includes to get a good control of the supply and handling of material which is of great importance.JELD-WEN Door Solutions is one of the worlds leading producers of windows and doors and the head-office is located in Oregon, USA.A great number of wooden doors are manufactured by the company in varying of constructions, classifications and performance.The production of the plant in Forserum has a project- and customer focus manufacturing where only internal doors are produced. The overall market they are concentrated on is to different institution such as schools, hospitals etc.The purpose of this work is to investigate possibilities to improvement of material- and production control at JELD-WEN. The report will handle the master production schedule to and from the production divisions within manufacturing industry. Focus will be on the way for information- and material flows from arrival, transport within the company and further on to customers.Further a map of the flow was performed which gave a clearer picture of the connection between the flow of information- and material for the manufacturing process. On the basis of the mapping of the flow, the group discovered that the flow of material had some improvement potential.

Often places for children and youth are planned how adults think children and adolescents want them, but we are often wrong. As a result, we find empty playgrounds while our target groups are building dens in the bushes, hanging around shopping areas, and so on. This report is an attempt to create a place for young people based on the opinions of their needs and their environment to better understand how to design a place that suits them well. To gain knowledge about how it is to be young in Simrishamn, a small township in the southwest of Sweden, I interviewed children and young adolescents. The interviews were all carried out in groups, mostly in larger groups inside where the result differed a lot depending on the settings for the interview. Two walkabouts with groups of three children were also made. Most of the children were eager to participate and tell about their reality, but some preferred not to.

Syftet med det här arbetet var att skapa ett häfte med några tips och idéer på hur matematik och lek kan kombineras, och att se om det finns några sidovinster med att kombinera matematik och lek.Lekarna i häftet ska vara genomförbara utan krav på vare sig material eller miljö.Jag genomförde en enkät för att se om det fanns något liknande material ute på förskolorna, och om ett sådant material används eller om det fanns ett intresse för att använda ett sådant material.Det egentliga huvudresultatet för det här arbetet är häftet som innehåller några lekar som kombinerar matematik och leken, och visa på några sidovinster det kan ge att kombinera matematik och lek.Det jag i stora drag kom fram till var att det egentligen inte finns några hinder på hur matematik och lek kan kombineras. Det är i princip bara den egna fantasin som kan var ett hinder i hur matematik och lek kan kombineras. Med ett öppet sinne och med lite fantasi så kan man leka när som helst, och var som helst. Att kombinera matematik och lek är alltså inte några som helst problem..

I detta examensarbete undersöker jag om och hur känslan av kvalitet i hantverk, material och sittkomfort påverkas av rationaliseringar i tillverkningsprocessen. Jag diskuterar också hur upplevelsen av kvalitet, hantverk och materialval förhåller sig till hållbarhetsaspekten i såväl estetiskt som ekologiskt, etiskt och ekonomiskt avseende. Undersökningen bygger på mina erfarenheter och min analys av mitt eget arbete med min gesällmöbel, kopian av denna och två ytterligare fåtöljer av identiskt utseende, alla med samma kvalitéer och material i det som syns utåt men med avvikelser i både tillverkningssätt och material i det inre. Jag konstaterar att beträffande utseende och komfort finns det ingen skillnad mellan de olika fåtöljerna, däremot med avseende på hållbarhet, både konkret över tid, och ekologiskt..

Most of today?s concrete structures that are built on site are mainly constructed in a traditional fashion with a lot of artisanal operations. One step towards industrializing the in-situ construction of concrete is to use prefabricated reinforcement. Through this method there can be a lot of savings when each bar doesn?t have to be placed and fixed separately on site.

Undersökningens syfte var att jämföra två förskolors utemiljöer och se hur barn och pedagoger samspelar där. Vi ville se i vilken omfattning barnen har tillgång till material och vilket material och vilka platser de var intresserade av. Utifrån vårt syfte ställde vi oss frågorna: Hur ser förskolornas utemiljö ut? Vilket material finns tillgänglig för barnen? Vilka material och vilka platser visar barnen intresse för? Vad i leken blir föremål för pedagogernas samspel eller styrning? Skapar de olika utemiljöernas kontext olika förutsättningar för samspel och styrning? Forskning om barns utemiljöer som vi tagit del av är gjord av Grahn och Mårtensson (1993, 1997, 2004). Vår undersökning byggde på ostrukturerade observationer och fotografering av lek och samspel på de två förskolornas gårdar.

The Swedish institute of racial biology was the first of its kind in the world. The purpose of their activity was to gather information about the different kind of racial characters of the Swedish population. They did this by traveling around the country gathering pictures and statistic information. In 1958 it was decided that the institute was going to get integrated with the University of Uppsala and change its research focus to a more medical genetic. Most of the research material also got integrated into the university?s library.The purpose of this paper is to find out how the institutes collection has been handled through the ages and if there have been any controversy or debate about it.

WSP building physics in Stockholm has certified the preschool Temmelburken in Bromma with the system of certification Miljöbyggnad. The rating of the building became BRONZE. In this thesis the preschool has been investigated with respect to the three areas: thermal climate, use of energy and improving of the level of certification. The thermal climate at the preschool has been investigated by a questionnaire survey and by measurements in order to do comparisons between the results from the two investigations as well as with the results of the simulations that WSP has done at the certification of the preschool. The differences between the results from the simulations and the questionnaire survey for winter as well as from the measurement performed with a comfort meter the 19th of March are concidered to be reasonably small since they give rise to the same rating according to Miljöbyggnad.   Operational data for the use of energy for the preschool have been obtained in order to do comparisons with simulations performed by WSP and Svenska Besiktningar AB. The comparison shows that the simulated values for the specific use of energy are lower than what the real specific use of energy would be for the preschool, since just the operational data for the heat energy is higher than the simulated values. At the investigation of the possibility of improving the level of certification it was found that the rating of the preschool can be raised from BRONZE to SILVER by improving the ratings of the ?thermal climate summer? and the ?daylight?.

Today Scania give a high priority to the continuous improvements on the quality of their vehicles. To follow up the flaws in product quality, which are recognized by the repairs at the local workshops, material requests are carried through to be able to analyze the defects at the plant in Södertälje ? in purpose to improve the product quality. The material requests are also carried through to compensate the workshop for their expenses and to check that they are working according to the company?s warranty manual.Due to local routines and different distribution structures at the different markets the lead times and the costs caused by the flow of material are hard to estimate.

A home for elderly is planed to be built at Zakrisdal, Karlstad, Sweden. The heat source for the building was at the time not determined. In order by the local government of Karlstad this report is meant to examine if the need of heat could be provided only by solar heat combined with a seasonal heat storage. The problem to solve is, if the need of heat from the home for elderly is provided from only solar heat, whitch dimensions of the solar collectors and the storage is needed?.

The purpose of this Masters thesis is to investigate the role of link collections in Swedish public libraries mediation of Internet resources. The study is focusing on the effects on the contents and the structure in the link collections when the target group is immigrant users. This is done through literature studies completed with an examination of two link collections containing multi-cultural and multi-lingual material and qualitative interviews with the two librarians who are in charge of the collections. The major questions raised in this study are: What function do the link collections have for the public libraries? What is the difference in working with traditional, printed material compared to the work with Internet resources? And how are the selection of Internet resources and the structure of the link collections affected when the collection is intended for immigrant users? The main results are that link collections in public libraries can give a concrete form to political guidelines.