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Chapter 1: Design-Construction Process

Figure 1.1: ( Left to right) Antranig M. Ouzoonian, PE, Principal, Weidlinger Associates, Inc., and Joseph Zelazny, CE, President, Kreisler Borg Florman General Construction Company, Inc., inspecting a construction site in New York City.
Figure 1.2: Typical shop drawing review stamp.
Figure 1.3: Sample stamp by consultant designating responsibility for "means and methods of construction."

Figure 2.1: Regional influence of model codes. (From Perry.)
Figure 2.2: Frequency distribution of load effect Q and resistance R. (From AISC.)
Figure 2.3: Definition of reliability index. (From AISC.)

Figure 3.1: Number of fatalities.
Figure 3.2: Rate of fatalities.
Figure 3.3: U.S. employment.
Figure 3.4: Injury and illness incidence rates per 100 full-time workers.
Figure 3.5: Fatalities per 100,000 foreign full-time workers.
Figure 3.6: Causes of construction fatalities in the United States. ( Source OSHA Data Base.)
Figure 3.7: Causes of construction fatalities in foreign countries.
Figure 3.8: Analysis of fatalities caused by falls.
Figure 3.9: Analysis of fatalities caused by "struck by."
Figure 3.10: Analysis of fatalities caused by "caught in-between."
Figure 3.11: Analysis of fatalities caused by shock.
Figure 3.12: Analysis of trenching fatalities.
Figure 3.13: Distribution of fatalities.
Figure 3.14: Fatalities of iron workers in steel construction.

Figure 4.1: Manhattan's Times Square was immediately closed to the public after portions of this scaffolding and hoist at Four Times Square collapsed on...

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