by Conrad Harrison | 9 Oct, 2017 | Freewriting
The difference between mechanical engineering and civil engineering is that mechanical engineering augments, enhances and enables human ability, whilst civil engineering along with architecture, enslaves, diminishes, and holds captive human capability. Humans have...
by Conrad Harrison | 8 Oct, 2017 | Freewriting
The logistics problem is getting the right goods, in the right condition, in the right quantity, in the right place at the right time. As I have mentioned in various places before, Australia is akin to a remote mining colony on Mars. South Australia and Adelaide is...
by Conrad Harrison | 17 Sep, 2017 | Freewriting
I was going to restrict posts on this site to the topic of structural design, but since I am interested in the whole gamut of technology, I cannot really do that. The appropriateness of technology is dependent on human factors, sociology and politics. Technology...
by Conrad Harrison | 1 Sep, 2017 | Freewriting
An exterior-room is a term I adopted a while back to describe a room which does not meet the building code of Australia habitable space requirements, but which is better than an open verandah, but otherwise does not match the function of a sunroom or conservatory....
by Conrad Harrison | 19 Aug, 2017 | Freewriting
As I have mentioned previously humans have legs and are meant to be mobile, such mobility provides us with advantages over plants which are anchored to the ground. In the daily challenge posts, I indicated that maybe cities should be designed to allow 60% of the...
by Conrad Harrison | 22 Jun, 2017 | Freewriting
Was going to write more about the breakdown of knowledge into hierarchies, but got involved investigating the structural properties of wood, in particular Canadian Redwood which isn’t otherwise mentioned in the Australian Timber Structures code AS1720. Seems to...
