Installing Cellulose Insulation

Faulty cement: BP's big mistake

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/10/28/national/main7000656.shtml?tag=topnews

Video link about Building envelope.

http://videos.howstuffworks.com/science-channel/37258-deconstruction-building-a-house-building-envelopes-video.htm
You might like the other videos following that one including the next that is about mold.

Global Climate Change

Have you ever heard of Graphene?

You will!

Powerful Wind

Safety rules must be enforced and respected.
Or lives will be taken.
I'm not talking about the "credible terror threat" about two packages and four planes that is happening live on CBS.
No, no, I'm talking about safety rules and this guy's actual tragic death:

Prepare an oral about it for a two-point bonus!"
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6999291n&tag=related;photovideo

What is a green building?

Here is Ari Kobb's answer. M. Kobb is Director of Green Building Solutions for the Building Technologies Division of Siemens Industry, Inc.

SOLAR CELLS on windows

A professor who invented low-cost solar cells that may be incorporated into energy-producing windows has been awarded the Millennium Technology Prize.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/06/09/technology.prize.window/index.html?hpt=C2

Job interview

Here is a link to a video

http://vimeo.com/5509898

Biogen Idec Contractor Safety - Cambridge from Matt Ferguson on Vimeo.

BIOGEN IDEC is not a building company! It is a pharmaceutical company
but their installations require state-of-the-art equipment and their safety regulations is very demanding.
Listen to the first three minutes of the video and say
1) What they transform discovery into?
2) What do they say about their products?
3) What do they say about their employees?
4) What are they proud of?
5) What do they strive for as far as their workplace is concerned?
6)Where should you wear your badge?
7) What should you do with it?
8) Where should materials be brought in?
9) Who must provide you with personal protective training and equipment?
10) What is the equipment composed of?
11) What is forbidden?
12) What is GMP ?
If you manage to answer those questions about the first three minutes, why don't you prepare other questions for your classmates with the remaining 11 minutes of the video?!

Aldar HQ

Surfing the building web

http://www.buildingtradesdir.com/

Choose five words from the homepage above and pick one link you would like to follow and say why.

What you study

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocational_education
Voc: Pick five words that seem very useful to you.
E.O.Introducing oneself: Imagine a situation where a great opportunity would be offered to you if you accepted to go abroad next month for 6 months.

BTA

TASK 1 /TÂCHE 1
Memorize the last three words of the introductory audio(and video)file from the following website.

http://www.buildingtrades.com/