oops THIS is Kyle's Essay

JUA
By Kyle Raynor
Architecture is mare than just buildings. It’s a problem, because you have to put into consideration the roads, traffic, and the placing of the buildings to make the structure look presentable. How do you take all of these aspects and put them together to make a productive building.
Are group spend two days traveling about Boston meeting with 3 different people to learn more about urban infrastructure.
I learned all the different steps that are involved in building a structure. First the person has to go find an architect and get his vision down into plans. The architect gathers ideas from the person and try’s to imagine what the buyer wants. The architect then has to look at making the building safe and how it could be build in the area that they want to build it. The person that wants this building then goes in front of city hall and the people of the city. City Hall will then tell the person if they want this building in there city. If there is a yes the person as to go area and find a area for the building to be build and see if his plans that he has now will allow it to be build there. After all this is done the person and the architect have another meeting to talk about how much this project would cost. The person who is building the building then has to go to the bank to see if he can finance this project. If he can he goes back to city hall and they have meeting about the function of the
building and how it was help the city and will the building be environmentally safe. If the city passes the building then the person as the right to start building the building whenever he wants. The plans then go back to the architect so he can finish doing all the final steps. The architect just does not design the building he has to also tie in the side walks and make all the streets tie into each other and make traffic flow good. There are also talks about with a new building where does all the parking go. The traffic problem is one of the cities biggest threats. After this is all done they can finally start to hire a building crew and start construction. On the building site there is one person who supervises everything and they are the general contractor. Everyone that works on the job site reports to the general contractor and then he reports to the owner of the building. The General contractor has to budget the building and make sure it stays inside of there price limit and has to report to
the city. There are target dates set and its on the contractor if the date in not met. One of the problems the general contractor told us about the working in a city with building a building is the high wind danger. The wind comes in form all directions from hitting buildings and coming up there streets. This can cause big delays with the building because of lifting items up to the higher levels.