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Planning permission
Published in Ray Tricker, Samantha Alford, Building Regulations in Brief, 2022
There are three types of plans – site, block and building – that can accompany your application and the choice of which to use will depend on the work proposed. Site plan: this shows the position of the site in question so that the Local Authority can determine exactly where the building is located. A site plan indicates the development location and relationship to neighbouring property and roads etc. The minimum scale is 1:2500 (or 1:1250 in a built-up area). The land to which the application refers is outlined in red ink. Adjacent land, if owned by the applicant, is outlined in blue ink.Block plan: a larger-scale plan to show the relationship of the building to other premises and highways. It is a detailed plan of a construction or structural alteration that shows the existing and proposed building, all trees, waterways, ways of access, pipes and drainage and any other important features. Its minimum scale is 1:1500.Building plan: the detailed drawings of the proposed building works showing plans, elevations and cross-sections that accurately describe every feature of the proposal. These plans are normally very thorough and include types of material, colour and texture, the layers of foundations, floor constructions and roof constructions, etc.
Planning permission
Published in Ray Tricker, Samantha Alford, Building Regulations in Brief, 2017
There are three types of plans – site, block and building – that can accompany your application and the choice of which to use will depend on the work proposed. Site plan: this shows the position of the site in question so that the Local Authority can determine exactly where the building is located. A site plan indicates the development location and relationship to neighbouring property and roads etc. The minimum scale is 1:2500 (or 1:1250 in a built-up area). The land to which the application refers is outlined in red ink. Adjacent land, if owned by the applicant, is outlined in blue ink.Block plan – a larger scale plan to show the relationship of the building to other premises and highways. It is a detailed plan of a construction or structural alteration that shows the existing and proposed building, all trees, waterways, ways of access, pipes and drainage and any other important features. Its minimum scale is 1:1500.Building plan: the detailed drawings of the proposed building works and would show plans, elevations and cross-sections that accurately describe every feature of the proposal. These plans are normally very thorough and include types of material, colour and texture, the layers of foundations, floor constructions and roof constructions etc.
Introduction
Published in Robert M. Sanford, Environmental Site Plans and Development Review, 2017
A site plan is typically drawn by a professional land use planner, landscape architect, or civil engineer and depicts the general layout of a subdivision (the splitting of land into two or more lots) or a development project on a single tract of land, including the proposed lots, building footprints, road access, streets, sewer and water facilities, drainage, and lighting. Depending on the complexity of the project and the requirements of the review board, the site plan may be one page or more of drawings with detailed information on topography, soils, vegetation, and waterways.
Intersecting narratives of site: Fragrant Hill Hotel as a reconstruction project
Published in Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2023
We compared the original site plan before reconstruction (Figure 10, Figure 11), the general plan of the new courtyard design provided by the Beijing Landscape Bureau (Figure 12), and the diagram of the preserved trees provided by Wang Tianxi, who was then the intern architect of PEI Architects (Figure 13). It is likely that the trees in the garden of I.M. Pei’s Fragrant Hill Hotel were mostly redesigned and transplanted, for they were originally not on the site. The “Fragrant Hill Park Chronicles” documented three discussions related to the “Cutting of Trees”: “On 24 May 1979, the Landscape Bureau reported that the renovation plan of the Fragrant Hill Hotel would cut down 485 ancient pines and cypresses, which would severely damage the scenic area of Fragrant Hill as well as the greening project. On 5 September, the Beijing Municipal Infrastructure Commission replied: according to the layout of the design scheme, 31 cypress and tulip trees could be cut down within the hotel site, and the others should be preserved as far as possible. On 19 May 1980, a meeting was held at Fragrant Hill to study issues relating to the protection of trees and the construction of the new hotel. On 25 June 1982, Fragrant Hill Park reported to the Landscape Bureau the fact of cutting down 245 trees during the construction of the Fragrant Hill Hotel, including more than 70 trees aged over 100 years old.” (Fragrant Hill Park Administration 2001, 34-37)
Study on Vietnamese Design Methods of Traditional Vernacular Architecture and Discussion on Their Technical Origins
Published in International Journal of Architectural Heritage, 2023
The site investigations had been carried out over a long time (2004–2012), which focused on well-known vernacular architecture such as the “Dinh” (communal hall) and the “Nha Ruong” (vernacular house). There are a hundred remaining vernacular buildings that have been investigated, in which 25 buildings of each category (which remained at their authentic values) were selected for analysis. The field survey of the overall site plan, floor plan, and sections was carried out and inventoried. In addition, we conducted a series of oral interviews with the master carpenters who keep the know-how of traditional construction techniques (Table 1), targets of these interviews were carpenter's tools used for design, designing methods, and construction techniques.
Precision performance evaluation of RTK and RTN solutions: a case study
Published in Journal of Spatial Science, 2022
Omar E. Mora, Matthew Langford, Rudy Mislang, Richard Josenhans, Jorge Chen
For close-range topographic observations within 600 m of the measurement instrument, the total station remains one of the best options for data collection. Its straightforward and intuitive design makes it relatively fast and easy for gathering a small number of reliable and accurate measurements, making it ideal for detailed site plan maps (USACE, 2007), construction surveying of city roads and airports, and for measuring Ground Control Points (GCPs) for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) surveys (Mora et al. 2019, Benjamin et al. 2020). However, if data collection requires hundreds of measurements across large areas with possible line-of-sight obstructions, the total station loses its advantages in speed and ease-of-use to other methods such as those based on satellite positioning or global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs) (Chekole 2014). Advancements in GNSS technology have yielded Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) and Real-Time Network (RTN) systems that provide quick, on-the-fly (OTF) data collection with reduced initialization and computation times and increased performance in conditions that would be unfavourable to the total station.