Posts by Michael Como
Heritage Style Restoration 37
Changing a sash cord in a double-hung window. Double-hung windows with sash cords are part and parcel of pre-federation homes. Federation homes and Californian bungalows usually have a mix of casement windows and double -hung windows. Well, I have avoided changing the sash cord for twenty-five years, but with the shower renovation, I have decided…
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Data transmission layer Raw data is transmitted i.e., transported, and processed from the previous layer mentioned above through general wire and wireless transmission technologies. The range is as follows: short-range wireless technologies, Wi-Fi wireless short-range technology, Bluetooth, wireless local area network (WLAN), ultra-wide-band (UWB) radio communication, a hybrid of both wired and wireless networks, Ethernet…
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Heritage Style Restoration in Ashfield 3 The Heritage Style Restoration 34 blog was the first in this series with …35 being the second in the series. The local council approved building work namely ground and first-floor alterations and additions to the existing heritage-listed dwelling house. The first-floor alterations and additions that are more towards the rear…
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INTRODUCTION A digital representation of a real object is a DT. The same is also called data twin, or virtual model. In the aerospace engineering field, the “ NASA Technology Roadmaps – NASA’s Apollo project in the 1960s” mentioned ‘twin’ in relation to a physical system (Madubuike et al. 2022). The NASA Apollo 13 mission…
Read MoreBuilding surveyor or private building certifier or accredited certifier to check your home build
Building surveyor, private building certifier or accredited certifier is essentially the same thing! When developing or building, the property owner gets to choose whether to use a Private Certifier or not. In some cases, a development can only be approved by a local council. Once the development is approved by a council with their impositions…
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