Project’s occupancy group

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The University of Washington (UW) owns more than 500 buildings with more than 20 million square footage of the gross area. The UW has in-house architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) professionals that overview the construction projects as owner representatives. For instance, Capital Planning and Budget and Engineering Services are two of the UW entities that are involved in the new construction projects. Assume you are a part of the UW team who is responsible for performing a preliminary study of a new off-campus building. This project will have classrooms, offices, conference rooms, and study areas devoted to one of the newly established UW departments. Answer the questions below based on the provided information.
Q1. What is this project’s occupancy group http://www.seattle.gov/documents/Departments/SDCI/Codes/SeattleBuildingCode/2015SBCChapter3.pdf.?
Q2. What information can you extract from the zoning ordinances https://www.seattle.gov/sdci/codes/codes-we-enforce-(a-z)/zoning. for your preliminary study? Give two examples.
Q3. Let’s assume you estimated that a five-story building with 35,000 square feet per floor should be considered for this project. Check the building code (refer to Fig 1.3 – Table 503 in your textbook) to find the construction types that work for this project. Which type would you select? Explain your rationale.
Q4. How does adding a fully automatic sprinkler system for suppression of fire would affect the allowable building stories and the area per floor?
Q5. Check the building code (refer to Fig. 1.4 – Table 601 in your textbook) to specify the fire-resistance rating requirement for the primary structural frame and exterior bearing walls.
Q6. Provide examples of project scopes that need to comply with these codes: (a) Energy codes, (b) Health codes, (c) Fire codes, (d) Mechanical codes. Provide one example for each.
Q7. One of the goals of this project is sustainability. Since the project falls under the new construction group, you need to check the requirements for LEED-NC version 4 (refer to Fig 1.2 in your textbook). What are the four possible LEED levels? Which one requires the lowest points?
Q8. Check the eight categories for LEED-NC. Select one category that you believe can achieve most of the possible points for this project (refer to Fig 1.2 in your textbook). Does this category have any prerequisites? What are they? How many points can you achieve if you address all the optional credits in this category?
Q9. This project has a limited budget and a tight schedule. What project delivery method(s) would you suggest for this project to the UW team to consider? Explain.
Q10. What else would you consider in your preliminary study based on the topics discussed in lesson 1?

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Dante Alighieri played a critical role in the literature world through his poem Divine Comedy that was written in the 14th century. The poem contains Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The Inferno is a description of the nine circles of torment that are found on the earth. It depicts the realms of the people that have gone against the spiritual values and who, instead, have chosen bestial appetite, violence, or fraud and malice. The nine circles of hell are limbo, lust, gluttony, greed and wrath. Others are heresy, violence, fraud, and treachery. The purpose of this paper is to examine the Dante’s Inferno in the perspective of its portrayal of God’s image and the justification of hell. 

In this epic poem, God is portrayed as a super being guilty of multiple weaknesses including being egotistic, unjust, and hypocritical. Dante, in this poem, depicts God as being more human than divine by challenging God’s omnipotence. Additionally, the manner in which Dante describes Hell is in full contradiction to the morals of God as written in the Bible. When god arranges Hell to flatter Himself, He commits egotism, a sin that is common among human beings (Cheney, 2016). The weakness is depicted in Limbo and on the Gate of Hell where, for instance, God sends those who do not worship Him to Hell. This implies that failure to worship Him is a sin.


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God is also depicted as lacking justice in His actions thus removing the godly image. The injustice is portrayed by the manner in which the sodomites and opportunists are treated. The opportunists are subjected to banner chasing in their lives after death followed by being stung by insects and maggots. They are known to having done neither good nor bad during their lifetimes and, therefore, justice could have demanded that they be granted a neutral punishment having lived a neutral life. The sodomites are also punished unfairly by God when Brunetto Lattini is condemned to hell despite being a good leader (Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). While he commited sodomy, God chooses to ignore all the other good deeds that Brunetto did.

Finally, God is also portrayed as being hypocritical in His actions, a sin that further diminishes His godliness and makes Him more human. A case in point is when God condemns the sin of egotism and goes ahead to commit it repeatedly. Proverbs 29:23 states that “arrogance will bring your downfall, but if you are humble, you will be respected.” When Slattery condemns Dante’s human state as being weak, doubtful, and limited, he is proving God’s hypocrisy because He is also human (Verdicchio, 2015). The actions of God in Hell as portrayed by Dante are inconsistent with the Biblical literature. Both Dante and God are prone to making mistakes, something common among human beings thus making God more human.

To wrap it up, Dante portrays God is more human since He commits the same sins that humans commit: egotism, hypocrisy, and injustice. Hell is justified as being a destination for victims of the mistakes committed by God. The Hell is presented as being a totally different place as compared to what is written about it in the Bible. As a result, reading through the text gives an image of God who is prone to the very mistakes common to humans thus ripping Him off His lofty status of divine and, instead, making Him a mere human. Whether or not Dante did it intentionally is subject to debate but one thing is clear in the poem: the misconstrued notion of God is revealed to future generations.

 

References

Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). Dante’s inferno: Seven deadly sins in scientific publishing and how to avoid them. Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed, 267.

Cheney, L. D. G. (2016). Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno: A Comparative Study of Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni Stradano, and Federico Zuccaro. Cultural and Religious Studies, 4(8), 487.

Verdicchio, M. (2015). Irony and Desire in Dante’s” Inferno” 27. Italica, 285-297.

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