Instructions:
Use google earth to navigate Richmond Kentucky in an effort to identify the following listed items. You will need to use google earth’s picture function to take a picture of the listed component. The pictures and components must come from the downtown Richmond, KY area. Everyone is responsible for taking their own pictures. Provide additional explanation “were required”. Assignment shall be submitted in Word format and will include the following:
Title for each picture caption
Picture
Explanation of each picture (were required)
1.Stretcher Course Brick
2.Header Course Brick
3.Soldier Course Brick
4.Thrust Plates (exterior visible from outside)/& tie rods (interior/not visible from outside)
5.Built-up roof (this typically occurs when a flat or pitched roof has been built over or up with a pitched truss style roof. The hazard is with the extra concealed space.)
6.Concrete Block wall (exterior)
7.Veneered Brick Wall (exterior)
8.Stone Wall (exterior)
9.Glass Block
10.Clay Tile/Block
11.Load bearing brick wall (exterior) {Hint: look for header brick row in conjunction with stretcher course}
12.Steel Lintel
13.Concrete/stone Lintel
14.Brick or stone arch
15.Exterior Load bearing beam
16.Exterior Load bearing column
17.Type III building (explain why you think it is a type III building)
18.Type V building (explain why you think it is a type V building)
19.Parapet Wall
20.Exterior Brick Crack (structural flaw) Explain why you think it is cracking.
21.Exterior Mortar Crack (structural flaw)
22.Deteriorating mortar joint
23.Structural Pilasters
24.Shared Block/Brick Wall (two connected buildings sharing the same exterior wall)
25.Exterior Insulation Finish Systems (EIFS) (Hint: looks kind of like stucco and the building is a bank and the top of the walls and the covered entrance are tan)
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