Proposal- Civil Engineering

Proposal To: Dr. Rod Zink From: Shivani Priyam SUBJECT: Recommendation Report â€Å"Topic† Revised Draft: Wednesday April 17, 2013 The purpose of this proposal is to summarize my recommendation report. Through this proposal, I will explain my theoretical situation in which I make a recommendation to the Assotech Limited’s Planning and Coordination team as to which type of master plan is best suited for their upcoming project. Through the course of this proposal I will explain Assotech Limited’s position in the Real Estate market in India.I will also compare two master plans since that will be critical in making a strong informative recommendation to the organization. Finally, at the end of my proposal I will outline my tentative schedule and breakdown the costs that I expect to incur while putting together my recommendation report. Introduction As Civil Engineer I have been hired by Assotech Limited to select the best master plan for a land area of 12. 062 acres, which comprises of  High Rise Towers of 2 BHK, 3BHK, 3 BHK + Servant room + Study & 4 BHK + Servant room + Study apartments as per the market requirements catering to buyers of all segments of the society.Some inventory of villas has also been introduced to take the advantage of huge demand for this. I have been hired to help the company choose between 2 possible master plans for the development. I will compare the two alternatives and recommend the best possible alternative for the company and the future residents. The company wants a master plan that takes into account the climatic conditions, sun and wind movement and incorporates these factors in our designs.I have to suggest the best alternative that will be the most efficient, the most cost effective option and also the most reliable over time for the homeowners and also maximize the use of natural elements in our buildings. Description of Case study The site is strategically located at Sector 99; in the upcoming New Gurgao n Area (India), which is in close proximity to the newly built Terminal-3 of Indira Gandhi International Airport, . The topography of the site is majorly flat with minor level differences.The client needs a master plan that will build Low rise development on the Southern side and high raise development on the Northern side for maximum utilization of natural resources. Gurgaon falls in the Composite Climatic Zone of India having all types of climatic characteristics from hot & dry, warm, humid as well as cold conditions. A climatic data glance over the past two decades show that hottest months are from May till June and the coldest months are from December till January, normal Annual Rainfall being 553mm. The Average Annual Wind Direction is North West to South East.The winds in this zone on an average are light but gain force in summers and monsoons. The site is located south East to the master plan. The wind direction being North West to South East will bring purified cool breeze i nto the site. Human comfort is a function of four primary variables; air temperature, air movement, humidity, and the mean radiant temperature of interior surfaces. Natural ventilation is an energy efficient way to increase human comfort because air movement increases heat transfer from the surface when cooler outside air replaces warm and humid indoor air.Natural ventilation, unlike fan-forced ventilation, uses the natural forces of wind and buoyancy to deliver fresh air into buildings. To maximize Natural Ventilation in buildings we need: * Set Building orientation to receive prevailing breezes * Cooling of breezes by vegetative shading * Introduction of water bodies along the wind path to control temperature. * Architectural devices such as wind chimneys, atria, courtyards, windows, and operable blinds to induce natural air flow. The Two Plans:The two types of master plans that Assotech limited are taking under consideration incorporates all the major factors such as the climatol ogy, wind, solar path and solar gain but vary in terms of the amount of energy and cost it can save which is where my job begins. The first plan is called the Option 1 and the second plan is called Option 2. Before a decision on the two plans can be made, Environment clearance certificate needs to be obtained and the two plans needs to be tested upon three major factors: 1.Strategically Oriented buildings to maintain apartment temperatures through wind and sunlight. 2. Natural ventilation, unlike fan –forced ventilation, should use the natural forces of wind and buoyancy to deliver fresh air into buildings. 3. Should use temperature friendly materials for optimal apartment insulation. Comparative study of the two plans: The comparative study here shows the total energy and cost savings fro the two options. It presents a very drastic contrast between the two options with regards to AC cooling, Heating systems and Day lighting in the areas.This table highlights the energy savin gs with respect to the three main factors and also clearly states which option is the most efficient one. Take example of one bedroom of 150 -170 Sq. ft. Average running of 175 days in a year | Option1| Option2| A C (summers)| | | Connected load| 1. 5 tr| 1. 5 tr| operational load| 1. 3 tr| 1. 5 tr| total energy saving/ day| 2. 0 KW| NIL| Heating (winters)| | | Connected load| 2. 0 KW| 2. 0 KW| operational load| 1. 7 KW| 2. 0 KW| total energy saving/ day| 7. 0 KW| NIL| Day lighting| | | Connected load| 100 W| 100W| operational load| 65 W| 65 W| otal energy saving/ day| 70 W| NIL| Saving due to option 1 = 6581. 625 INR or 121. 47  US Dollar| In AC cooling systems, it shows a difference of 0. 2 tr. between the two options regarding operational load. It also shows the total energy savings if we go with Option1- Master Plan Green. In heating systems, it shows a difference of 0. 3 tr. in terms of operational loading, hence contributing majorly to towards total energy savings with optio n 1. In Day lighting, although there isn’t any loading difference but option 1 contributes 70 W worth energy saving, as compared to option 2 which contributes NIL.In conclusion, as it is evident from the comparative table, option 1 is a more efficient, cost effective and the most reliable option for our consumers. Option 1- Master Plan Green The massing on the site is such that to maximize the views from the Expressway. The blocks on the North and North West get the benefit of views of the Master Plan Green. The hierarchy of heights on the site respects the Vaastu Principles with lower tower on the North East and increasing heights towards South West. The geometry of the site has also been considered.The entrances of the site are at North East and South West with reference to Vaastu requirements. The central location of the Clubhouse gives an easy access from all parts of the site. The Club also has a direct access to avoid congestion on any part of the site. All the building s on the site face Central Green Courtyards. The site is divided into two huge green courts flowing into each other through a central lawn. Option 2- Master Plan White This option gets the benefit of the Natural Resources that is Wind and Sun.The Wind Movement has been taken care of by placing the building blocks strategically to get the advantage of natural ventilation in maximum number of apartments. The peripheral road gives a direct access to all the blocks with their separate drop offs. The placement of Villas on the Southern edge of the site and Taller buildings on the Northern edge allows Sun penetration in maximum number of apartments. Decision Criteria: In option 2 there is a linear tower in the central court,  this makes a closed courtyard comparing with Option 1.After closely observing the shadow diagram of both the options I concluded that option 1 has less shadow towers falling on each other and have open court yard (from club side) thus having better cross ventilatio n for  all the towers and its units. The minimum amount of shadows helps us in winters and reduces the requirement of heating load in overall load capacity as well as operational time when compared with option 2. Same is case for cross ventilation. Option 1 reduces the heat, makes the indoor spaces cooler as compared to option 2 thus reducing the load on the air conditioning. Prospective Audience:My primary audience would be the Manager of the Planning and Coordination team, who will read the report and recommendations and decide what he/she believes, will work best for his/her situation. The secondary audience will be the owners and management of the construction company. They will be making the final decision for the company and decide if the recommendation that I give to them will be best for their situation and whether or not they will be using those master plans. They will also check to ensure that the recommended mater plans meets all of the requirements that they have given to me as their engineer.Another audience for the report would be the State Environment Impact Assessment Authority who is in charge of the entire environment related factors will have to approve of the plan to make sure it will meet all of the regulation in the areas. Work Schedule For Implementation Of The Plan: The work schedule will begin as soon as the final proposal is handed in and will finish the day that the report is due. Task| April 1st– 8th | 9th-22nd| April 23rd- May 5th | 6th -12th | 13th– 19th | May 20th -June 3rd | Research systems| | | | | | | Form idea on better system| | | | | | | Initial Report draft body| | | | | | |Report front and end matter draft| | | | | | | Review and edit| | | | | | | Finish report and print and binding| | | | | | | Cost of Publication for the plan: The costs for the two options I am considering in my recommendation report are charted below: Option| Cost| Option 1 Air Conditioning unitsHeating UnitsVentilation strategiesSunli ght incorporated tower structure| $6. 48 /- per sq. ft. | Option 2 Air Conditioning unitsHeating UnitsVentilation strategiesSunlight incorporated tower structure | $10. 78 /- per sq. ft. | I have decided to go with option 1. Total savings due to option 2 is 121. 47  US Dollar.Schedule for the recommendation report: I feel as I navigate through this project I would need to plan and stay focused to accomplish all tasks in a timely manner and hence my planner for this recommendation report would be: Task| Week 11| Week 12| Week 13| Week 14| Week 15| Week 16| 1| Proposal| | | | | 2| | | Initial Draft| | | 3| | | | | Complete| | 4| | | | | | Final| Qualifications: This project falls under my current work related responsibilities. As a civil engineer in Assotech Limited, I have a wealth of resources and knowledge available to conduct a realistic analysis for the two master plan alternatives.I also fully understand the pros and cons of the two options, which would help me to see the effe ct of each on the company and how it would result in achieving the main aim of the project. Since, I am able to utilize the resources I have available through Assotech Ltd. my cost for this project will very minimal. Cost of required materials I believe these could be the possible costs while creating the final product. The costs would include the cost of color printing, and the coil binding. Thus the break down of the cost is listed below: Items| Cost| Color printing| $0. 49| Paper| $0. 0| Coil Binding| $ 3. 50| Total | $3. 99| ————————————————- Permission to Continue: After reading the proposal I am asking for permission to carry onto the recommendation report for the task of finding a suitable master plan in relation to climatic conditions and energy usage for Assotech limited for their project in Gurgaon, India. Citation requirements: 1. Assotech Limited. . 2012. Assot ech Blith [Internet]. Noida (UP): Assotech Moonshine Urban Developers Pvt Ltd; [2012 January, cited 2013 February]. Available from: http://assotechlimited. om/our-projects/featured-project-assotech-blith. html The website is the official website of Assotech Ltd. I am using this website as one of my sources for the recommendation report since this page would help me find information on the company and help me with my analysis and findings. I have used this website for obtaining the data for the comparative study, the cost of publishing and the work schedule for the plan to be implemented. 2. 2009. Gurgaon (UP): Sustainable Habitats- Teri Initiative [cited 2013]. Available from: http://www. sustainable-buildings. org/files/composite_SolarEnergy. df As we know, large quantities of energy are consumed in providing lighting, ventilation, and thermal comfort in the buildings. Using proper planning and design the architects have made it possible to reduce the wastage of energy and lighting . Thus, this website helped me with all the topography and climate related information required for my comparative study. Secondly, this website provided me with the information I needed to base my comparative options which were AC cooling, heating system and day lighting. Thirdly, it also gave me information about the location of the construction. 3. A R COP. 007. Planning and coordination [Internet]. 2007. Arcop Associates Pvt. Ltd, cited 2013] Available from: http://www. arcop. co. in/planningandurbandesign. htm ————————————————- This website helped me with my master plan options and cost related questions. I used this website to obtain the visuals I needed for my report. It provided me with all the details along with the visuals for the master plan green as well as the master plan white. ——————————â €”———– [ 1 ]. Vaastu- â€Å"ancient doctrine about science of construction and architecture. †

Fashion and Architecture

The organic structure can be seen and thought of as a machine, a vehicle, every bit good as a edifice. Therefore it could be stated that dressing of an single provides a definition of personal infinite as do architectural constructions though they are bigger in graduated table. Manner and architecture have many connexions: they both aim to â€Å" do † shelter for the human being and reflect our gustatory sensation. In this construct, it is widely accepted that manner and architecture relation started with the earliest work forces who used the same stuff for their vesture and for housing/shelter. This relationship has lead closer connexions between the two subjects, such as, both Fieldss have commonalties in their design procedure which makes them portion the same boundaries: Both designers and manner interior decorators aim to make perfect, comfy and beautiful signifiers for the human organic structure. On the other manus, Architecture and Fashion differ in many ways, such as, Fashion is inevitable to decease in shorter clip than architecture, it is related to smaller graduated table, and most significantly, Fashion is more about selling and ingestion while Architecture is monumental and relates to infinity. These differences wholly create a yarn of commodification and commercialization for Architecture. Architecture acts as a maker of infinite, i.e. , it acts as a symbolic metaphor and an agent of the society ‘s cultural values. Since the outer infinite reflects our interior infinites, this commodification and commercialization might take Architecture to lose its mission in the societal life. Therefore this work suggests that Architecture should acquire engaged in human infinites, traditions and cultural values of the society, sustainability, infinity, and integrity of the life, instead than temporalty of manner. This Master ‘s Dissertation aims to research the relationship between Architecture and Fashion from conceptual, imagination, materiality and planetary positions. This survey proposes that in today ‘s extremely globalised universe, it is about impossible to pattern architecture separate from manner since both humanistic disciplines are antiphonal to the persons ‘ and the societies ‘ civilization and environment. In a conceptual sense, both Architecture and Fashion address psychological perceptual experiences, and spacial constructions. From the imagination – ocular position of point, both humanistic disciplines reflect the gustatory sensation of the persons who occupy those infinites, and from the materiality context, Architecture and Fashion have many in common, such as, usage of cloths and stuffs, usage of engineering, and from the planetary point of position, both humanistic disciplines and creative persons in these Fieldss have an chance to interact closely with each other in particularly socially antiphonal, more sustainable, and economical design. The work sets out to research the function of Fashion in Architectural design and visa poetry from exploratory and interpretative positions, showing preliminary findings from the literature study, ocular stuffs, pronunciamento of the interior decorators, and personal observations and readings. This survey differs from the old surveies in the sense that although much of the literature finds out that the relation between Fashion and Architecture is about a must and inevitable happening, and they propose closer relationships, this survey proposes that this fact creates a hazard for Architecture to go from conceptualization and to travel towards commerce and commodification. In this manner, architecture becomes a consumer production, instead than the reading of the infinite. This thesis is further developed to plan our â€Å" Fashionable Hut † . Architecturally, we aim to stand for the timeless architecture tailored harmonizing to the seasonableness of the modern-day epoch.IntroductionThe stopping point relationship between Architecture and Fashion ( hereafter A & A ; F ) is frequently referred to the usage of the same stuff for covering of his organic structure and for constructing shelter of the earliest adult male. The recent exhibition on this relationship Skin + Bones ( 24 April – 10 August 2008 ) has besides explored several parallel patterns between these two subjects from 1980s to onwards. These patterns included digital design procedure, usage of complex geometry, colors, lines, visible radiations, etc. Globalisation, which is widely accepted as the promotions in engineering, peculiarly transit and communicating agencies, enabled b oth A & A ; F to develop more possibilities in design and flexibleness in application. Thus one of the purposes of this thesis is to research the common features and interrelatedness between Architecture and Fashion in a planetary construct. In fact, this thought has arisen from the observation of parallel growing of materiality and designation in manner and architecture designs and executions. On the other manus, as this maestro ‘s thesis chief statement suggests, these close synergisms between the two subjects might make the hazard of commodification and commercialization in architecture and instead than an political orientation, architecture might go a consumer merchandise. The ground for this thought is that manner is marketing of desire while architecture is monumental ; manner is destined to decease in a short clip, while designers aim infinity via their musical compositions ; and most significantly, manner is a tool for fall ining to the society, being a portion of it while architecture provides privateness, i.e. isolation from the remainder of the universe. Our chief statement is that, the stopping point relationship between A & A ; F, could make a hazard for architecture cut downing the architectural political orientation to the facing and exterior image, merely. Sing to the relation between A & A ; F, we take conceptual, visual-imagery, and modern-day – age of globalization attacks to research the synergistic and discordant relation between the two Fieldss. In the conceptual geographic expedition, the constructs of beauty and its relation to architecture will be foremost explored in order to happen out manner ‘s and architectures common purpose to make the beautiful or perfect shelter and home for the human being. From the conceptual point of position, both A & A ; F reflects the gustatory sensation, individuality, and civilization of the person and the society at a given period. However, this period is greatly short for Fashion compared to the infinity of architecture. â€Å" If manner is the linguistic communication of architecture, manner represents the broad – and – swirling-cultural currents that form and direct that linguistic communication † says Rybczynski, â€Å" architectural repute, every bit goo d as architecture comes on the manner ‘s sway. Therefore, at its most basic, â€Å" the mission of architecture is application of a manner on a infinite in order to show our gustatory sensation ‘ . On the individuality side, the manner system, as described by Barthes ( 1983, 277 ) is a â€Å" cultural object, with its ain original construction, and likely, with a new conclusiveness†¦ through the linguistic communication which henceforth takes charge of it, Fashion becomes narrative † . Therefore manner manipulates the ocular linguistic communication as a agency of reflecting the individuality of persons in particular, and the civilization of the society in general while architecture, in a broader sense goes beyond pull stringsing the ocular linguistic communication, but is more sophisticated in footings of pull stringsing the construct of the whole infinite. Manner is slightly a contemplation of the corporate individuality of a given group, such as, same gender, age group, occupational group, and so on, while architecture is for everyone in a given society. While manner is shaped by the persons, architecture shapes the society through the spacial applications. In am ount, manner can be described as the wall of the organic structure while architecture is the organic structure itself and the home environing that organic structure. On the ocular and imagery attack, A & A ; F portion more in common, particularly with the developments in stuff and digital techniques, such as, high tech fabrics, fictile edifice stuffs, computing machine assisted design ( CAD ) package, and all that. One normally ascertained modern-day fact that architecture and manner are both basking the usage of fictile and flexible stuffs which enables designers, such as, Zaha Hadid and Rem Koolhass to borrow ruffling techniques from the manner interior decorators and manner interior decorators, such as, Lucy Orta and Yeohlee Teng borrowing from the construct of urban infinite and lastingness from designers However, these adoptions today are observed so often that it holds a danger for architecture to be reduced to come up, and the harmoniousness between the outer and inner of the construction is about lost ( this will be farther explored and discussed in the globalization construct ) . From the modern-day position, several issues will be explored: It can be said that modern-day epoch conditions, such as, computing machine aided designs, flexible and lasting stuffs, engineering and communicating agencies which are available about to everyone in the universe as forcing factors Fashion, Architecture and other scientific discipline and art subdivisions interact better than those in the yesteryear. The modern-day epoch is, of class, non without jobs: environmental issues, limited beginnings ( such as energy and H2O ) , planetary heating, in-migration and civil rights, and so on. Hereof, it is observed that modern-day epoch [ 1 ] interior decorators should be more socially responsible and interact in these issues more. That is to state, design should non be consumed so fast, interior decorators should move more environmental witting and socially antiphonal, sameness in planetary metropoliss might make a calamity, commodification and commercialization should be avoided, t he harmoniousness between the inner and outer surfaces and homes should non be avoided. If these can non be done because of the mass media and mass production, than forging the architecture is inevitable which is represented in our â€Å" Fashionable Hut † . From a simple point of view, the function of manner within architecture is relentless particularly on the surfaces and faades, coatings, and appliqus. The intent of this probe is to object to the typical relationship between F & A ; A. The place of this thesis is that architecture should travel back to its earliest signifier. This thought is further developed with the design constituent which attempts to construct a wearable infinite in order to alter the surface easy in line with vesture manner. The architectural probe Centres on the inquiry: can architecture be fashioned instead than conceptualised? The remainder of the work is catalogued as follows.Dissertation StatementIn today ‘s of all time altering environmen t art Fieldss and interior decorators are influenced by each other. However, when it comes the Fashion and Architecture interactions this relationship goes back every bit early as the Ice Age. This thesis explores three dimensions of A & A ; F interactions with particular involvement on the African influence on Modernity: cultural, visual-imagery and planetary construct where each of these will carry on single subdivisions throughout the work.AimsManner and Architecture have many analogues in footings of their aims and usage of graduated tables in add-on to utilize of colorss, angles, visible radiation, etc. The purpose of this thesis is twofold: to understand the relationship between A & A ; F from the past patterns and to plan a construction stand foring the eternity of the architecture compared to the short life of manner.MethodologyAs for many humanistic disciplines and humanity surveies, the nature of this thesis is a qualitative 1. Therefore, informations will be collected thr ough beginnings, such as interior decorators ‘ plants, web sites, and interviews in add-on to analysis of exhibitions, aggregations, designs, and constructions.Background: BeginningsIn the clich signifier, the relationship between these two subjects back to the earliest adult male ‘s usage of the same stuffs for sheltering himself and for covering his organic structure. At its most simplistic description, building started with the earliest adult male constructing a shelter for him and so did the started when he covered his organic structure ( with the same stuff ) . The development of this interaction, chiefly from Semper ‘s position of point will be discussed in the theoretical chapter of this work. For the clip being, we foremost aim to separate manner from vesture and architecture from building by mentioning to their significances. The word manner comes from the Latin word fascia significance to do or a peculiar brand or form ( Kawamura, 2005, p. 3 ) . Although manner is largely used to show vesture tendencies, particularly, adult females ‘s vesture [ 1 ] nevertheless, in a broader term ( and for the intent of this survey ) it refers to the rapid alterations in tendencies that occurred particularly after the nineteenth-century industrialisation as a consequence of the developments in bring forthing new manner rapidly and someway cheaply. Fashion constructs desire, and it is a fleeting procedure. Architecture, on the other manus, is non merely doing or determining the construction, as Colomina defines it â€Å" architecture is the reading of the infinite † . It is an experiential, interpretive and critical, effect. Therefore architecture is a monumentary conceptual, ideological, and philosophical procedure which constructs vision in contrast to manner ‘s ocular facets. A & A ; F interaction starts in a manner of exposing the individuality of an single and making the perfect spacial surface and construction, both Fieldss portion the thought of â€Å" the human organic structure and on thoughts of infinite, volume, and motion † and every bit good because both are a bed that communicates between the environment and organic structure with the ability to convey individuality on the personal, political, cultural and other degrees within life and society † . In lingual footings, manner could be described as ‘the visual image of the image individuality that the users want to reflect to the society ‘ . This individuality is non needfully to be the existent individuality of the individual ; it is instead about what we want the society to believe about us, but non truly what we are in existent life. Taking architecture as a linguistic communication defined by Jencks, contemporarily, architecture could be both defined as the visual ima ge of our Real individualities, and individuality does non alter every bit frequently as manner tendencies do. However, as we conceive of it today ( and for the intent of this survey ) , architecture is an experiential, critical, and interpretive pattern instead than being about building merely. Therefore it dates back to the Greek Mythology of the Labyrinth ( BC 3 ) where Daedalus who built the Cretan Labyrinth is regarded as the first designer. Nevertheless, be due to the interpretive nature of architecture, contrary to the myth, Daedalus was non the first designer since he built the maze but did non understand its construction, Ariadne who interpreted the construction with the aid of a device ( a yarn ) should be regarded as the first designer ( Colomina, ) . Manner, on the other manus, developed in a different mode, while architecture aimed to determine the society, manner was shaped by the society itself. In fact, apart from vesture as an ordinary definition, manner started merely in the AD 1700s in line with the merchandiser capitalist economy and accelerated during and after the Indust rial Revolution since the working category could attempt to vie with the upper category in footings of vesture and dressing up [ 2 ] . Therefore, from the historical position, we can speak about the links between A & A ; F merely associating the period after the 18th C. But, what drove such a relationship? In other words, how did architecture collide in the kingdom of manner, or vice-versa? Following subdivision aims to reply these inquiries in order to keep a theoretical background to our unfavorable judgment sing to today ‘s status.ConceptualizationArchitectural history, it turns out, was ideally situated to cover with the dual intension of manner as the history of vesture manners and the more specific usage of manner to denominate the procedure of alteration peculiar to capitalist economy. Because designers active around the bend of the last century were concerned straight with dress-either as an attempt to reform modern visual aspect or as portion of the scenography of int eriors-and because they were profoundly engaged with the temporal problematic of making a modern manner, their arguments betray an interesting conflation of vesture as artefact and manner as procedure, which in other Fieldss has created ambiguity. To this they brought a theoretical heritage concerned with the beginnings or aboriginal footing of architecture as a fiction of enclosure, shelter, or brooding ; analogies to covering the organic structure were standard, and fabrics were postulated to hold played a important function. Dress design has been an facet. In fact, the closest relation between A & A ; F might be stated as to make the â€Å" perfectly beautiful constructions and infinites † for the organic structure. In order to construe the infinite, as an designer, one should see it, and the Centre of the experiential universe is the human organic structure. â€Å" Our organic structures and motions are in changeless interaction with the environment ; the universe and the ego inform and redefine each other invariably † . Then, is the mission of manner to supply the most suited and comfy coverings for the organic structure to feel the infinite? While the importance of organic structure ( as proportion, motion, etc. ) was emphasised by Vitruvius in the BC20s, it was merely in 1900s when girdle was abolished from manner, and more recent, in 1960s that ( women's rightist ) adult females argued dressing in a mode of unrestricting their existent motions. While the organic structure and architecture and the organic structure and manner are so near, on the one manus, as Wigley emphasizes, designers tried to get away from the temporalty and futility of manner ( represented as feminine decorations in architecture ) during the Modern Era, by their judgement that manner ( represented in decoration in architecture ) is something feminine and ugly, on the other, many of those ( male designers ) â€Å" Henry Van de Velde, Josef Hoffmann, Lilly Reich, Frank Lloyd Wright or their married womans ( Anna Muthesius, Lilli Behrens ) designed apparels. Others, notably Otto Wagner, Adolf Loos, and Hermann Muthesius, wrote about manner † . In order to understand this paradox, Kinney proposes to understand the post-modernism foremost. However, in a reductionist manner, we will follow the historical mode. The metaphor of human organic structure as an architectural infinite is non a new construct ; or it is non a construct that appeared merely in the Modernism intervals, it can be traced every bit back as Vitruvius [ 3 ] who explored the organic structure as a proportion to the construction. Harmonizing to Vitruvius, â€Å" no edifice can be said to be good designed which wants symmetricalness and proportion. In truth they are as necessary to the beauty of a edifice as to that of a well formed human figure, which nature has so fashioned † ( De Architectura, Gwilt Translation, 1826, p. 78 ) [ 4 ] . In order to make the beat, edifices should be designed harmonizing to three correlative elements: utilitas, venustas, and firmitas [ 5 ] ( Rasmussen, 1959 ) . So, as to Vitruvius, architectural design should mention to the unquestionable flawlessness of the organic structure ‘s symmetricalness and proportions [ 6 ] . Even so, The issue of beauty had been debatable for Vitruvius. On the one manus he made allusions to the harmonic ratios of Pythagorean musical theory, proposing there was a higher cosmic order underlying the judgement of beauty. On the other manus he gave architects the right to change proportions if the †eye † calls for corrections, or as the humanistic disciplines make advancement † . As the perfect beauty is seldom found in the nature, therefore decoration, as the interceding component between natural nature ( stuffs ) and the telling lines of the architecture ( Mallgrave op cit ) was needed. This interceding component between the natural nature ( organic structure ) and the perfect expression is dressing and accoutrements in the manner sense. As Ruskin provinces, this ornamentation should be â€Å" whatever God has created † , such as, â€Å" abstract lines and the whole scope of systemized organic and inorganic signifiers † . Nonetheless, after rediscovery of Vitruvius in the 15th C, people interpreted him harmonizing to their ain manner be due to linguistic communication obstructions, the stylish cosmetic ‘excesses ‘ of the Rococo and in the medievalism of the Gothic and particularly in the Renaissance Era, architectural decoration to a great extent relied on the human figures. 18th C is marked as this to a great extent usage of decor ation ( specifically human figures, Laugier ( 1755 ) was responded merely in the Modernist Era. Do n't allow us be profuse in decorations, allow us set much field, something negligent, with the elegant and brilliant, allow us go through in common from the negligent to the field, from the simple to the elegant, from the elegant to the magnificent: Sometimes allow us travel briefly from one extreme to the other through resistance, the daring of which strikes the battle and may bring forth really expansive. This to a great extent trust of decoration should hold been in a manner that would non a quandary between the decoration usage and refute which likely best reflected by Winckelmann [ 7 ] ( 1755 ) . Once he stated that â€Å" sameness or humdrum as defects in architecture which consequence edifice without ornament and is like a healthy individual who is reduced to poverty, something no 1 looks upon as a good thing † , so subsequently he proposed that beauty is represented by â€Å" simpleness and repose, † ( chiefly by the Grecian interior decorators ) . ‘The Greeks entirely seem to hold thrown forth beauty as a thrower makes his pot ‘ ( because Greeks were close to the nature and they had copied it ) which he calls this beauty as baronial ( Lefaivre & A ; Tzonis, 2004, pp. 369-370 ) . While Winckelmann was someway obscure between the ornamented and simplified beauty, his modern-day, and chief rival -Italian architect- Giovanni Battista Piranesi was clear abo ut absolute beauty which came as the construct of â€Å" empyreal † placed above ‘beauty ‘ in the hierarchy. From an architectural position, Piranesi supported â€Å" to a great extent ornamented late-empire Roman architecture in resistance to the rigorists † . Similarly, Owen Jones who is regarded as one of the most influential design theoreticians and designers of the 19th C believes that decoration and proportion should function for the architectural flawlessness. In his words: â€Å" building should be decorated†¦ As in every perfect work of Architecture a true proportion will be found to reign between all the members which compose it, so throughout the Decorative Arts every gathering of signifiers should be arranged on certain definite proportions ; the whole and each peculiar member should be a multiple of some simple unit†¦ every decoration arises softly and of course from the surface decorated. . That is to state, the ideal beauty till th e 18th C was represented by proportion, symmetricalness, and beat which were found in the human organic structure, of course. In the short infinite of a individual subdivision of such a low survey, one can state small about the broad gamut of the whole argument of beauty, decoration, nature, and all the above issues reviewed above [ 8 ] . Rather, we intend to supply a short background to the closer relationship between vesture and architecture with particular mention to Semper ‘s Theory of Dressing, Sullivan ‘s â€Å" bare edifices † , and Loos ‘ absolute rejection of decoration in organic structures and edifices wholly created cardinal alterations in vesture and manner [ 9 ] , excessively in the Modern Era.IdentityGottfried Semper, who broke the Vitruvian high ideals by his Four Elementss of Architecture, could be regarded as the first who straight pointed out the A & A ; F connexion though arguably he might hold led cut downing architecture to the wall and roof by stressing merely the application of the development theory to these constructions. Harmonizing to Semper, thought of t he wall evolved from the sequence of spacial enclosures and the phases of the development were: crude screen or woven mat, so metal overlay and, finally, rugs, whose colorful images were applied to the surface of masonry edifice to arouse a sentiment of monumentality. Further, Semper developed his â€Å" Theory of Dressing † aimed two facets: foremost, to underscore the importance of the fabric industry in the beginnings of architecture and 2nd, Semper was concerned with the trouble involved in the artistic usage of Fe in monumental architecture. . Among them Viennese Architect Otto Wagner examined the relationship between architecture and manner both in theory and pattern. However, his modern-day, Adolf Loos is most known for his involvement in manner ( as taking Semper ‘s ideals further and implementing them ) and absolute rejection and compulsion with the decoration in the human organic structure and in edifices. It must be noted here that, while crudeness referred to simpleness and purism for Semper, nevertheless, Loos took it as barbarian universe ( for him Papuans citing Africa ) . He ( Loos ) stressed that the more ornament the human being utilizations ( such as tattoos and piercings ) the most likely he / she is to perpetrate offense. Architects such as Le Corbusier, Hermann Muthesius and Peter Behrens besides perceived the edifice as a nicely garmented organic structure and therefore appreciated Loos ‘ lessons on dressing and edifice. By making so, Modernism, peculiarly as expressed by Le Corbusier, aimed t o interrupt from the Utopian life by extinguishing the mediaeval inequalities of societal categories, destroy the differentiation between the streets and chevrons, through art, particularly architecture since architecture is the art of life. Among the manner interior decorators, Coco Chanel is best known for her manner in line with Loos ‘ thoughts ( this construct and relationship will be examined further in the following chapter of this survey ) , nevertheless, Loos ‘ chief significance for this survey is that He was the first among those who declared the manner and architecture relationship aggressively. Ever since Louis Sullivan called for called for â€Å" †¦ forbearing wholly from the usage of decoration for a period of old ages, in order that our idea might concentrate acutely upon the production of edifices good formed and comely in the nude † ( we might besides add Adolf Loos ‘ proposition to link decoration with offense and crudeness [ 10 ] ) boulder clay Moussavi ‘s work on the Function of Ornament and Domeise ‘s Re-Sampling Ornament exhibition, late decoration has been a soiled word in architectural circles for decennaries. In fact, decoration was associated with gender, chiefly muliebrity and gender by the Modern Architects and therefore it should hold been omitted and FORM is to FOLLOW FUNCTION. This functionalism, as Loos puts it, for Modernist architecture is that the house does non hold to state anything to the outside ; alternatively all its profusion must be manifest in the inside ( cited from Colomina: 1996, p 32 ) . Colomina farther dec lares that the exterior is merely the screen of the book, it is dressing, it is mask. However, inside it is a speculation between the infinite and the person. While manner is the graphical interlingual rendition of the single human organic structure while architecture is the non-verbal communicating between the infinite and the society. Manner as a Mask is satisfies our quest for individualism within the context of a society while architectural building is a tool for fulfilling the demand for insulating ourselves, it is the existent shelter. While manner performs uniformity in the society, architectural manifest garbages limitations. This disjuncture farther brings out the refusal of fashion-able as in Le Corbusier ‘s statement: What we wished to show in art was the Universal and Permanent and to throw to the Canis familiariss the Vacillating and the Fashionable. [ 11 ] However, with Chanel ‘s response to that functionalism, in her â€Å" small black frock † that can be a party frock with accoutrements, such as, a pearl necklace, and besides it functions as a twenty-four hours frock with a cardigan or worn obviously, it can be said that manner felt in the kingdom of architecture, or looking at Le Corbusier ‘s statement above, we can state that manner invaded architecture ‘s infinite. This sarcasm that on the one manus, while architectural thoughts tried to get away from the manner, manner interior decorators, such as, Chanel, Schiaparelli, and Dior adored architectural ‘ thoughts on functionalism and excluding decorations and applied architectural manners in their designs, on the other manus, while saying how ugly the feminine manner, designers did non maintain off from manner ‘s infinite. Art, trade, architecture, manner one for all The above thoughts summarize Bauhaus ( and, International Style, after the World War II and migration of Bauhaus members to other states, chiefly USA ) farther to make rational societies through rational design. Bauhaus was radical school of art, architecture and design established by the innovator modern designer Walter Gropius at Weimar in Germany in 1919 ( Tate Modern ) . It was a topographic point of acquisition and implementing where the boundary lines between art and scientific discipline and adult male and machine were eliminated. This design issue was non restricted to merely architecture, but included about all subdivisions of art and design, such as, planing mills, their catalogues and even letter papers, or planing houses and offices, their furniture, the pictures, etc. ( from the Manifesto of Bauhaus by Gropius ) . The thought is straightforward: in order to unify the existence, as creative persons we must unify our manners and International Style, could provide a model f or this. The rules are: down with frontiers, up with the grid, no curving lines, so that art will be corporate for the universal, and general grammar of the form would be geometry [ 12 ] . . The phase workshop was an interaction between all public presentation humanistic disciplines, i.e. , music, dance, theater. Led by Schlemmer ( an designer, pigment, interior decorator ) Bauhaus costumes were designed in order to show philosophical and compositional look of cardinal organic structure types: pure, clear, and clean. Costume, architecture, organic structure, and infinite were dynamic and inextricably linked for Schlemmer. â€Å" His individual topic was the human figure. He reduced to puppet-like, planar forms that were expressive of the human organic structure as a perfect system of proportions and maps correspondent to the machine age † ( Bauhaus Archive Webpage ) . Schlemmer ‘s costume designs were playful and riotous, and restrictive for the human organic structure that inhabited his costumes reflecting Schlemmers theory that human types were unreal buildings. The map of costume is to stress the individuality of the organic structure or to alter it. Costume expresses the organic structure ‘s nature or it intentionally misleads us sing it ( extracted from: History of Modern Drama, Emory University ) . The skectches of organic structure and costumes designed at Bauhaus will be farther explored and critised in the following chapter. Meantime, from the chronological point of position, the true beauty of the Bauhaus motion harmonizing to the writer, is that it ‘s pronouncement anounced by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: less is more [ 13 ] The construct is simplicity and clarity lead to high-quality design. From the position of an designer, it is a working method in which aesthetic seeks to amaze in a simple manner and without unneeded elements. The infinites are adapted to an thought of life that is intended to be simple, the walls linear, the floors with smooth texture and as a whole the construction that allows captivation. The virtuousness is absence, absence of decoration, unneeded inside informations that will ensue more esthesis. Since fewer elements mean fewer possibilities, minimalist architecture is more hard to accomplish flawlessness. Thus it represents the aesthetics of the silence, the infinite of civilization. The infinite maps create a dry run with the head and isolates us from the exterior. Modernism and its rules as an architectural motion were good set, as emphasised in the pronouncements, manifests and patterns of the bookmans and interior decorators. However, two paradoxes could be observed here: one is that although its rules were good set and communicated, its deductions diverted from state to state ( chiefly be due to common and homes of those topographic points ) hence a uniformed design could non be implemented, 2nd, although the word ‘modern ‘ refers to modern-day, being modern-day, following the developments, etc. Modernist designers were more Utopian in their rules as the lone acceptable truth in design issues. Skin and Bones, that is architecture, no acerate leafs The undermentioned old ages, with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ‘s revolution, the glass house, the rules of Modern architecture, i.e. functionalism, concreteness, transparence, cleanness and elation all came to life. His pronouncement â€Å" less is more † represented the thought of less structural frame with more infinite. Although the rules of modern architecture remained, Le Corbusier ‘s â€Å" White World † was to be exchanged to the â€Å" Crystal Line † of Mies, nevertheless, the chief thought remained the same: Purism at its bosom. Mies proposed his supreme stuff, as sheet glass which meant elation and transparence. However, Mies ‘ compulsion with his belief that the lone redemption of architecture existed in his glass architecture, led commercialisation, or in other words, inexpensive architecture, which will be discussed in the concluding chapter of this work. Though rules of Modernist Architecture were good determined, nevertheless, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour in 1968, recognised in a trip to Las Vegas that marks and symbols had taken the topographic point of decoration which they justify as a sort of interruption from the modernist Architecture. In fact, Venturi suggested planing from outside to inside as opposed to the Modernist designers ‘ planing from inside to outside would be better. In his words, â€Å" signifier accommodates map † , by which they mean â€Å" architecture as a common loft is non interesting, surface is interesting, the ornamented surface, allow ‘s engage symbols, iconography, and decoration † . They province that the â€Å" heroic and original † ( Modern ) architecture that is non relevant any more since it did non talk with expressed symbols that most people could understand. They drew two sorts of architectural infinite: â€Å" the small edifice with lar ge mark ( decorated shed ) † and â€Å" edifice as mark ( duck ) † . On the other manus, when ocular pollution became an issue, Venturi Scott Brown stresses that they do non intend the value ( the form ) , but the thought ( iconography as decoration ) is of import. Venturi and Associates ‘ claims are really of import in footings of the circling thought of decoration and iconography in architecture which were omitted in Modernism. However, contrary to the old periods, particularly the classical manner, they say ordinary could be preferred over original. The concern of this work is non a sociological position, nevertheless, since A & A ; F in the modern-day epoch has developed from the sociological phenomenon, it must be noted here that Learning from Las Vegas teaches us â€Å" ( non ) larning from dad † both architecture and manner develop in a response to the shared values of the society, e.g. , political relations, scientific discipline, engineering, etc. In that sense, it could be said that what Venturi and his chaps observed in the Las Vegas Strip could be connected to post-World War II rise of the consumerism and pop art. Venturi ‘s call for marks and symbols as ornamentation was responded by pop art or vice-versa that 1960s and the subsequently decennary were dominated by it. The printed media, the easiness of bring forthing marks, the engineering to reproduce art ( including architectural design plant ) , mass production, consumerism, market consideration instead than inspiration, etc. all produced aggregate civilization. Art became an instant event instead than a advancement and all these were claimed as to be liberty, freedom, or interrupting utopia. sixtiess and 1970s were coined as the age of media by many bookmans, the age of media, mass production, fast ingestion, etc. which wholly led the globalization in the following decennary. Though we do non hold with Venturis ‘ thoughts today, which is the chief portion of our statement, architecture against the manner, specially, branding manner, Venturis ‘ work is really much of import for this survey: First, contrary to the Modernism ‘s purpose to edify the society- learning the metropolis ( and therefore society ) through ideals, doctrine, art instruction, and so on, Venturis manner was larning from the metropolis and milieus whether they represented edification or non. In their words, they preferred larning from the ordinary since it can take you to larn the extraordinary. Second, the mark ‘s going a picture besides means art ‘s being replaced by trade, and if we regard this as architecture in footings of urban infinite, we could so boldly province that feelings are replaced by reproduction since marks can be reproduced easy. Third, are hoardings as they claim to be about right, non the production of mass civilization? If architecture is reduced to hoardings, what will make full the spread between architecture and the life? no-one life in the rock age would cognize he [ sic ] was populating in the rock age. He would believe he was populating in the modern age. Today we believe we are populating in the modern age. Time will state [ 15 ] Yet Venturi ‘s statement is true in some senses, nevertheless, architecture as a contemplation of the societical issues, might besides be impermanent, since societies, excessively change quickly. Sing the changeless alterations in silhouettes of metropoliss, about in every period that the society is depressed ( as in the instance of London in the current fiscal crisis period ) , it can be said that in the modern-day epoch, architecture is besides impermanent. Venturi ( 1966 ) ( who coined the term â€Å" less is a dullard † ) was non the lone 1 who was bored by the less, the economic crises of the 1970s which led to 1980s liberalization besides caused the societal crises. Venturi suggested that edifices which attempted to be non-historical were someway non as rich or every bit interesting as those which gave a witting nod to, or borrowed from, the yesteryear. Similarly, Charles Jencks besides supported the thought that Modernist structures lacked the verve and diverseness which brings psyche to the urban landscape. He said that: Happily, we can day of the month the decease of modern architecture to a precise minute in clip†¦ .Modern Architecture died in St Louis, Missouri on July 15, 1972 at 3.32 p.m. ( or thereabouts ) when the ill-famed Pruitt-Igoe strategy, or instead several of its slab blocks, were given the concluding putsch de grace by dynamite As for the manner, this happily motion was celebrated with Mary Quintin ‘s mini skirts, fancy frocks, disco frocks, colorful frocks, which may be called the ‘total freedom ‘ or ‘complete pandemonium ‘ . Manner, excessively developed in the same mode: formality was abolished and insouciant dressing was promoted The really evident illustration of this fact is the so called Modss, who see Modernism as a life manner. Though occurred in the late sixties, Mod refers to Modernism, and can be taken as a reaction of the immature people against the complex life manners of the sixties. The ulterior decennary, 1970s characterised by societal conditions mentioned above, witnessed more colorful, but non needfully stylish or quality mentality was coined as â€Å" the decennary that gustatory sensation forgot † . The modern-day epoch, get downing from 1980s globalisation moving ridge will be the topic of the 3rd chapter of this survey and the catalogue. In short, Modernity has overcome Modernism as a consequence of mass civilization. Though manner followed architecture ( should we symbolize architecture by Las Vegas ‘ colorful marks and symbols ) , the after-Modernism period paralleled with the Modernism Era in footings of avoiding manner, as Robert Venturi, the most known opposition of Modernist Architecture provinces: Apparels are more delicate than edifices and their design can germinate more rapidly. Clothing is impermanent by its really nature, and architecture by its really nature, is every bit lasting as anything human can be in world. We change our apparels. but architecture is a environing invariable. In so far, from a chronological historical point of position, our literature study could be summarised as follows. The relationship between edifice and vesture started with the earliest adult male ‘s utilizing same stuffs for both sheltering and vesture himself. Harmonizing to the available earliest beginning Vitruvius ( around 25 BC ) the organic structure and architecture was studied in footings of proportion, therefore for a proper architecture human nonliteral ornamentation represented appropriateness. On the other manus, since perfect beauty is rare in nature, decoration was used as a interceding component between the natural and unreal. Initially, this decoration was whatever the God created ( Ruskin ) . However, the stylish cosmetic ‘excesses ‘ of the Rococo and in the medievalism of the Gothic created an architectural lack for a call to order ornamentation. The ornament argument has than continued till the Modernism Era. Gottfried Semper ‘s development theory farther explored the relationship between edifice and fabric in footings of wall stuff, and he so developed his theory of vesture since vesture was seen in close relationship with architecture. Semper ‘s theory was farther progressed by Adolf Loos, and other Modernists to exclude decoration and to manner the metropolis. Initially, for Modernists, manner represented muliebrity, architecture represented maleness and therefore architecture should hold kept off from manner, nevertheless, paradoxically, many Modern designers dealt with manner either by composing on it or by planing it. While architecture refused manner and stylish in the Modern Era, manner interior decorators adored their thoughts and implemented them. Gabriel ( Coco ) Chanel was the most celebrated manner interior decorator in that mode and she was besides celebrated with her esteem to Loos ‘ thoughts . In fact, from the above, we could state that Modernist designers did non get away from the manner ; so, they shaped the manner ( at least worked to make so ) . The following epoch has witnessed rapid alterations in media and mass production, therefore produced consumptionism and mass civilization. As a consequence, the order and edification that Modernism aimed to convey to the society was replaced with the thought of devouring the civilization, instead than bring forthing it. In that sense, architecture and manner developed correspondingly in the sixtiess and 70s. From the low study of this survey, to this point, no stopping point relationship between architecture and manner was observed. However, personally and as a bookman in architecture we observe a really close relationship between these two subjects. Therefore within the model given in the debut portion of this survey, following chapter aims to research these relationships and analyze the results.SemioticssSince manner and architecture are contemplation of the civilization and individuality, the development degree of the societies would surely impact the design constructs and possibilities. In a manner of showcasing the individuality of an person, both profession portion the thought: The human organic structure and on thoughts of infinite, volume, and motion † and every bit good because both are a bed that communicates between the environment and organic structure with the ability to convey individuality on the personal, political, cultural and other degrees within life and society. From the position of sociology, manner, or in a broader pregnant adult females ‘s dressing can be looked as a ocular representation of their aesthetic gustatory sensation while with a few exclusions, such as Le Corbusier ‘s Le Modulor, early twentieth-century modernists ignored ocular mentions to the organic structure ; alternatively, they focused on the actions of the organic structure. The higher intersection between Architecture and Fashion was observed after the Modern Era, or better termed as the â€Å" Late Modern † . While the earlier periods depended on drawings and illustrations, Modern Era has witnessed several developments in imagination, such as, picture taking, cinematography, and telecasting. The great promise of picture taking was that it would state the ‘truth ‘ . Yet the ‘truth ‘ of picture taking is merely a more convincing semblance, choice and ruse lurking behind the looking nonpartisanship of the mechanical oculus. Fashion drawings frequently give more accurate information, yet it is the photographic image that has captured the feel of modern apparels, and in so making influenced them.

A Letter of Advice to Nhs Litigation Authority on Clinical Neglgence Case of Missed Fractured Scaphoid Bone

To: NHS Litigation Authority, Re: Chandler Bing v Friends Health NHS Foundation Trust Dear Sir/ Madam, Thank you for your referral of the case concerning Mr. Chandler Bing’s missed fracture scaphoid bone received on 31 August 2010. The following is the Letter of Advice to the NHSLA concerning the above-mentioned case. The Claimant: 1. The Claimant was born on 8 April 1969. As a result of the events referred to in their particulars of claim the claimant is now represented by Bloomingdale Solicitors to launch to launch a civil action against Friends Health NHS Foundation Trust on 31 August 2010. The Defendant: 2. The Defendant was at all relevant times responsible for the management control, and administration of Friends Health NHS Foundation Trust, and for the employment of doctors, nurses, and other medical specialist s including emergency medicine, radiology and orthopaedic surgeons at and for the purpose of the said hospital. Duty of care: 3. Each of the doctors, nurses, and other staff employed at the hospital who treated the Claimant at the hospital owed the Claimant a duty of care. This duty included a duty in respect of: a. The advice given to the Claimant; . The diagnosis made in respect of the condition of the Claimant; c. The treatment prescribed for the Claimant and advice as to the effect of the treatment; d. The monitoring of the Claimant whilst treatment was given to the Claimant. 4. The Defendant is vicariously liable for any such breach of duty on behalf of any of its employees. Procedural Steps: 1. Protocol Steps: a. Obtaining health records: to provide suf ficient information to alert the Healthcare provider where an adverse outcome has been serious; to request for specific medical records involving the case. . Request for copies of patient’s clinical records with approved standard forms. c. Make sure the copy records to be provided within 40 days of the request and for a cost not exceeding changes permissible under the Access to Health Records Act 1990. d. If the Healthcare provider fails to provide health records within 40 days, their advisers can then apply to Court for an order for pre-action disclosure. e. If Healthcare provider considers additional health records are required from a third party, these should be requested through the patient. Third party Healthcare providers are expected to co-operate. 2. The response: Letter of response: a. Provide requested records and invoice for copying. b. Comments on events and/or chronology. c. If breach of duty and causation are accepted, suggestions for resolving the claims and request for further information offer to settle. d. If breach of duty and/or causation are denied, outline explanations for what happened by Healthcare provider suggests further steps like further investigations, obtaining expert evidence, meetings, negotiations or mediation, or an invitation to issue proceedings. e. Healthcare provider should acknowledge receipt of letter of claim within 14 days of receipt. f. Healthcare provider should, within 3 months of letter of claim, provide a reasoned answer. g. If claim is admitted, then the Healthcare provider says so. h. If any part of claim is admitted, then Healthcare provider makes clear which issues of breach of duty and/or causation are admitted and which are denied and why. i. If claim is denied, include specific comments on allegation of negligence, and if synopsis or chronology of relevant events provided and is disputed, Healthcare provider’s version of events provided. . Additional documents, for instance, internal protocol, copies provided. k. If patient made an offer to settle at this stage as a counter-offer by supporting medical evidence, and/or other evidence in addition to claim in healthcare provider’s possession. l. If parties reach agreement on liability, but time is needed to resolve claim, then aim to agree a reasonab le period. Witness Evidence: The witnesses concerned in this case include: 1. Claimant’s family members and colleagues concerning the accused loss of function in daily activities of living. . Healthcare providers beside the medical doctor in Accident and Emergency Department, including accident and emergency doctors and consultants, radiologists, orthopaedic specialists, nurses, family doctors, etc, who have treated the Claimant. 3. The Claimant himself. Where a witness statement or a witness summary is not served, the party will not be able to call that witness to give oral evidence unless the Court allows it. Matters to be covered in the witness’s statement will include: 1. Occupation and working ability of the Claimant, if this has changed, since the injury, previous occupation of the Claimant. 2. Brief description of marital and family circumstances including dates of birth of all the family members of the Claimant. 3. The Claimant’s amount of the sequence of events relating to the treatment in question. Care should be taken to avoid importing text and phraseology from medical records or reports that the Claimant would not use in the normal course of discussing the case. 4. If the witness’s factual recollection of events differs in any important respect from the medical records, or from the version of facts set out in the Defendant, the statement should acknowledge this and comment upon these differences. 5. The witness should describe the effects of the injury; this will include the effects on his physical condition, emotional condition, the practicalities of everyday life, the Claimant’s financial affairs, family life, and future plans and projects. Additional witnesses should state their relationship to the Claimant. If a amily member is providing a statement which is collaborative of the Claimant’s amount of events, the witness should confirm that he or she has read the Claimant’s statement and state that he or she agrees with its contents, insofar as those within his or her knowledge. The statement should then deal with issues of which the witness can give primary evidence. Where a party is required to serve a witness st atement and he is unable to obtain such a statement, for example because the witness refuses to communicate with the Defendant’s solicitor, he may apply to the Court for the permission to serve only a witness summary instead. This application should be made without notice. The witness summary is a summary of the evidence which would otherwise go into a witness statement, or if the evidence is not known, matters about which the party serving the witness summary will question the witness. Expert Evidence: 1. In clinical negligence disputes, expert opinions may be needed: a. On breach of duty and causation. b. On the patient’s condition and prognosis. c. To assist in valuing aspects of the Claims. The main expert witnesses to be considered include: a. Orthopaedic specialists. b. Accident and Emergency specialists. c. Radiology specialists. 2. The new Civil Procedure Rules will encourage economy in the use of experts and a less adversarial expert culture. It is recognized that in clinical negligence disputes, the parties and their advisers will require flexibility in their approach to expert evidence. Decisions on whether experts should be instructed jointly; and on whether reports might be disclosed sequentially or by exchange, should rest with the parties and their advisers. Sharing expert evidence may be appropriate on issues relating to the value of the Claim. However, this protocol does not attempt to be prescriptive on issues in relation to expert evidence. 3. Obtaining expert evidence will often be an expensive step and may take time, especially in specialized areas of medicine, where there are limited numbers of suitable experts. Patients and Healthcare providers, and their advisers, will therefore need to consider carefully how best to obtain any necessary expert help quickly and cost effectively. . Assistance in locating a suitable expert is available from a number of sources. Here the NHSLA has already supplied a number of experts for this case. 5. This is a case of missed fracture of the waist of the scaphoid, for a patient initially seen in the Accident and Emergency Department, is often a clinical diagnosis rather than a radiological diagnosis, because this fracture may not become apparent on an X-Ray until often a period of 10 days, and some times konger, has elapsed. . Tenderness in the anatomical snuffbox at the base of the dorsal aspect of the thumb, or pain produced by proximal pressuring on the wrist joint in radial deviation by comparison to the unaffected side, together with diminished power of grip, is an indication for the forearm to be put into a scaphoid plaster of Paris. 7. The patient must have the plaster checked the following day and will need to be X-Rayed again in 10 to 14 days if a fracture line was not initially visible. 8. When a fracture of the scaphoid is suspected, â€Å"scaphoid views† should be asked for. 9. The doctor at Accident and Emergency Department must ensure that 4 views have been carried out: Anterior-Posterior, Lateral, Supination oblique, and Pronation oblique. 10. If there is doubt about the diagnosis or the fracture is displaced, then a more senior or orthopaedic opinion must be sought forthwith, otherwise a scaphoid plaster must be applied, and the patient referred to the next Accident and Emergency review clinic or fracture clinic. 11. There is a component of contributory negligence by the Claimant who insists to remove the plaster in the follow up clinic despite he was strongly advised not to do so. The effect of this contributory negligence on the Claims should be further explored and evaluated. Quantum of damages: The means to calculate the quantum of damages made in this case of clinical negligence include various heads of the following damage: 1. Pain, suffering and loss of amenity; 2. Loss of earnings; 3. Care and assistance; 4. Travel and parking; 5. Miscellaneous expenses. The Claims on items (1), (3), (4) and (5) are measured quite subjectively by the patient affected. The calculation of loss of earning could be done by using the Ogden tables, which are involving a set of statistical tables for use in Court case in the United Kingdom. Beside the age of this patient (Date of Birth=08/04/1969) being 41 years old on the date of claim (that is 12-11-2010) is known, we still need to know about the patient’s earning per annum, what is his occupation, whether he had any disability resulted, his qualifications, and his planned age for retirement. In case where the period of loss of earnings will continue for many years into the future, it is particular important to ensure that amount is taken of likely periodic changes to the Claimant’s income. The Claimant will want to point to anticipated career progression. In such cases, the Court will either: 1. Determine the average multiplicand, based upon the likely earnings throughout the period of loss, which will be applied to the full period of the loss, or; 2. Use stepped multiplicands for each stage of the Claimants career. Generally, this will result in a lower multiplicand at the beginning and possibly at the very end of the period of loss, with one or more higher multiplicands to represent the likely career progression that would have been followed. There is a need to interview the Claimant in more details to decide these uncertainties for a more comprehensive evaluation. Last but not least, the importance of expert evidence in such a case is vital. Medical evidence can provide an indication as to what work the Claimant will be capable of undertaking, both at present and in the future. This, together with evidence of the Claimant’s employment prospective, will assist the Court in determining what will happen to the Claimant in the future. Another means to calculate for the approximate quantum of the damage in this patient is to look into common laws and journals for similar cases for comparison and a rough estimation of quantification of similar claims. In Johns v Greater Glasgow Health Board1, a 44 years old lady broke her scaphoid bones in both wrists in a fall. The fractures were only diagnosed three months later. As a result the fractures would not unit, causing continuous incapacity and pain. Bone grafting was contemplated, despite an earlier unsuccessful attempt. Held, that solatium was properly valued at 11,000 pounds with wage loss to date and for a further 4 years. In W v Ministry of Defence2, which is a case of failure to diagnose fractured scaphoid from Clinical Risk 2010; Volume 16: p. 198 (by Collier et al). The case was settled concerning damages awarded to the Claimant pursuant to the delay in the diagnosis of the fracture of his hand, without which the Claimant could have avoided undergoing surgery and regained his complete and normal wrist function. W made an offer to settle in the sum of 15,000 pounds. The amount awarded to the Claimant was reduced to 9,000 pounds after further negotiation. 1. Johns v Greater Glasgow Health Board (1990) SLT 459. 2. W v Ministry of Defence (2009) MLC 1652 In B v Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital3, the Claimant, a male nurse aged 29 years, had attended the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust after falling off his bike in July 2004. His left fractured scaphoid bone wad missed and a non-united scaphoid fracture with humpback deformity and associated ligament damage had occurred. The Claimant thus made a Part 36 Offer for the sum of 14,000 pounds that was agreed with the Defendants in March 2006. In N v Pontypridd & Rhona NHS Trust4, the Claimant injured his right wrist in a fall whilst ice-skating on March 14, 1998. He attended the Hospital’s Accident and Emergency Department and was noted as having a tender scaphoid. An X-Ray of the wrist was taken which was interpreted as disclosing no fracture. Nonetheless the wrist was set in plaster of Paris and the Claimant released. On March 19, 1998, the Claimant re-attended the Hospital’s Accident and Emergency Department still in pain. The cast was removed; no X-Ray was repeated. The Claimant was given tubi-grip dressing and told to exercise the wrist. On April 29, 1998, the Claimant attended a different Hospital complaining pain and swelling over scaphoid region. X-Ray showed a fracture of scaphoid bone in his right dominant hand. On May 29, 1998, the fracture showed sign of delayed union. As a result, a settlement of total damage of 12,500 pounds; general damage of 8,000 pounds, and special damage for income loss and care of 4,500 pounds were awarded. In P v United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust5, the Claimant was involved in a fracas at nightclub in Bristol and arrested for punching security camera. The Claimant attended Accident and Emergency Department at the Bristol Royal Infirmary on 27 May 2000 and he experienced problems relating to his right wrist. The SHO treated the injury as being a sprain and no X-Ray was taken. The Claimant’s GP then identified tenderness in anatomical snuffbox. An X-Ray confirmed fracture through scaphoid being missed by Accident and Emergency Department. The Claim was finally settled for 40,000 pounds with causation proved. 3. B v Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital (2006) MLC 1350 4. N v Pontypridd & Rhona NHS Trust (2003) MLC 1031 5. P v United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust (2004) MLC 1159 QBD Settlement Where a Claimant has received State Benefits as a result of a disease and is subsequently awarded compensation, the Department for Work and Pension (DWP) will seek to recover these benefits from the Defendant via a system operated by the Compensation Recover Unit (CRU). The CRU is also responsible for collecting from a Defendant the cost of any NHS treatment that a Claimant has received following a clinical negligence. Notifying the DWP: Section 4 of the 1997 Act requires the compensator to inform the DWP not later than 14 days after receiving the Claim. The Notification should be made on Form CR1 which is sent to the DWP. On receipt of Form CRU1, the CRU will send Form CRU4 to the Defendant. The Claim then progresses to the settlement stage. When ready to make an offer of compensator, the compensator submits form CRU4 to obtain a Certificate. The CRU acknowledges receipt of form CRU4 within 14 days. The CRU sends the Certificate to the compensator- a copy will also be sent to the Claimant’s solicitor. The compensator will then settle the compensation claim and pay the relevant amount to the DWP within 14 days of the settlement. The compensator will also complete and send to the DWP Form CRU102 detailing the outcome of the Claim. The rules relating to recovery of benefit apply to clinical negligence claims. Due to their complexity, especially relating to causation, the CRU has set up a specialist group to deal with the claims, and makes a special request their compensators inform the CRU about clinical negligence claims as soon as the pre-action correspondence is received. Part 36 Offer: A party who wishes to make a Part 36 Offer must first apply for a Certificate of Recoverable Benefit from the CRU. Although Part 36 does not spell it out , guidance from case law suggests that the offer should therefore particularize the various heads of damage, and indicate the amount of benefits to be deducted against each head. Mediation: The parties should consider whether some form of Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedure would be more suitable than litigation, and if so, endeavour to agree which form to adopt. Both the Claimant and Defendant may be required by the Court to provide evidence that alternative means of resolving their dispute were considered. The Courts take the view that litigation should be a last resort, and that claims should not be issued prematurely when a settlement is still actively being explored. Parties are warned that if the protocol is not followed, then the Court must have regard to such conduct when determining costs. Mediation is one option for resolving disputes without litigation: it is a form of facilitated negotiation assisted by an independent neutral party. The Clinical Disputes Forum has published a guide to mediation which will assist, available at www. clinicaldisputesforum. org. uk The Legal Services Commission has published a booklet on â€Å"Alternatives to Courts†, CLS Direct Information Leaflets 23, which lists a number of organizations that provide ADR services. It is expressly recognized that no party can or should be forced to mediate or enter into any form of ADR. (Total: 3000 words) Bibliography: 1. Lewis: Clinical Negligence: A Practical Guide, 6th edition, Tottel Publishing. . Khan M, Robson M, Clinical Negligence, 2nd edition, Cavendish Publishing. 3. Powers and Harris: Clinical Negligence, 3rd edition, Butterworths. 4. Woolf S (1995) Access to Justice – Interim Report HMSO. 5. Woolf S (1996) Access to Justice – Final Report HMSO. 6. (1999) The Civil Procedure Rules HMSO. 7. â€Å"Making Amends†, at www. dh. gov. uk 8. †NHS Redress Bill† at www. publications. parliment. uk 9. Civil Litigation Handbook by Woolf, Lord Justice; Burn, Suzanne; Peysner John (2001), The Law Society. 10. A. A. S. Zuckerman, Ross Cranston (1995), Reform of Civil Procedure- Essays on â€Å"Access to justice†, Oxford University Press. 11. The Judicial Studies Board, Guidelines for the Assessment of General Damages in Personal Injury Cases, 9th edition, Oxford University Press. 12. Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence: Tough Conditions – The Lawyer 10/10/05, www. lexisnexis. com 13. Opinion: Edwina Rawson: The Lawyer 26/09/05, www. lexisnexis. com 14. Butterworths: â€Å"Risk Assessment in Litigation: Conditional Fee Agreements, Insurance and Funding†, David Chalk 15. The Law Society: â€Å"Conditional Fees: A survival Guide†, Napier and Bawdon 16. The Law Society: â€Å"Civil Litigation Handbook†, Peysner. 17. â€Å"Mediating Clinical Negligence Claims†, Roger Wicks, www. medneg. com articles 18. â€Å"Guide to Mediation†, www. clinical-disputes-forum. org. uk 19. â€Å"Guide to Mediating Clinical Negligence Claims†, www. clinical-disputes-forum. org. uk 20. Kemp and Kemp The Quantum of Damages, Sweet and Maxwell. 21. Medical Litigation Online, www. medneg. com 22. AvMA Medical and Legal Journal 23. â€Å"General Damages – the NHS Case†, Philip Havers Q. C. and Mary O’Rourke, Quantum, Sweet & Maxwell (2000) 24. Practice Direction at www. justice. gov. uk 25. NHSLA website www. nhsla. com 26. Civil Procedure Rules at www. justice. gov. uk 27. Pre-action Protocol for the Resolution of Clinical Disputes and Practice Direction – Protocols, www. justice. gov. uk 28. â€Å"Guidelines on Experts’ Discussions in the Context of Clinical Disputes†, Clinical Risk (2000) 6, 149-152 29. The â€Å"Draft Guidelines On Experts’ Discussions in the Context of Clinical Disputes† (published by the Clinical Disputes Forum) 30. Part 36 and its Practice Direction, www. justice. gov. uk. 31. The NHS Redress Act 2006 can be found online at www. legislation. gov. uk/ukpga/2006/44 32. Johns vs Greater Glasgow Health Board, (1990) SLT 459, www. medneg. com 33. W v Ministry of Defence, (2009) MLC 1652, www. medneg. com 34. B v Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital (2006) MLC 1350, www. medneg. com 35. N v Pontypridd & Rhona NHS Trust (2003) MLC 1031, www. medneg. com 36. P v United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust (2004) MLC 1159 QBD, www. medneg. com

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