Construction

1 Introduction
1.1 Read the text title and hypothesize what the text is about. Write down your hypothesis.

1.2 What do you know concerning this issue? List your ideas in the table left column “I know”.

I know that… I have learnt that…

1.3 Do you know answers to these questions? Write down your short answers in the space given after each
question.

1 Who normally supervises construction?

Normally the job supervised by the project manager
2 Is construction multitasking?
Construction is a fear of multitasking
3 What is renovation of a buiding?
The vast majority of building construction projects are small renovations, such as addition of a room
renovation of a bathroom
4 Why is it necessary to see the utility plans before digging the foundation of a building?
Because many projects of varying sizes reach undesirable and result, such as structural collapse, cost
overruns, or litigation reason
5 What is procurement?
However the three most common types of procurement: traditional(design-bid-build), design and build,
management contacting.
6 Why is the Design and Build package more complete?
Because D&B package can also include to find site arranging funding and applying for all necessary
statutory consents
7 What is the function of the municipal building department?
Once the proposed building has been approved, detailed civil, architectural, and structural plans must be
submitted to municipal building department to determine compliance with the building code and sometimes
for fit with existing infrastructure

1.4 Circle in the list the words and expressions you know. Write down their translation in the table and
calculate the percentage of your lexical competence.

1 to zone разделять на зоны 9 procurement закупка

2 contractor поставщик 10 merging of activities Объединение мероприятий
3 utility company Коммунальное предприятие 11 fire department Пожарная часть
4 scheduling планирование 12 building code Строительный кодекс
5 expansion расширение 13 from inception С самого начала
6 to complete завершить 14 project coordinator координатор проекта
7 successful execution Успешное выполнение 15 construction drawings Строительные чертежи
8 fittings арматура 16 bridging перекрывать
2 Reading
2.1 Scanning. Look through the text and define whether your hypothesis is right. Compare the information
from the text with your notes (1.1).

2.2 Skimming. Find in the text the answers to the questions you failed to respond before reading. Add the
missing answers to the table (1.3).

2.3 Grammar. State the sense relations between words of the marked sentences by using the proposed
algorithm in the Tips.

2.4 Lexis.

2.4.1 Tick in the list (1.4) the words and expressions you realized after reading the text without
dictionary. Write down their translation in the table and calculate the percentage of your ability
to guess the meaning of the words from the context.
2.4.2 Find in the dictionary the words you could not translate. Write down their translation in the
table (1.4) and calculate the percentage of new words you should learn.

2.5 Abstracting. Write an abstract using the algorithm proposed in the Tips.

2.6 Translation. Translate the abstract of the text in italics and write it down in the notes.
3 Summarizing
3.1 Reviewing
Review the text according to the proposed scheme and algorithm proposed in Tips.

Topic:

Relevance:

Addressee:

Main issues:

Novelty:

Methodology:

Theoretical significance:

Practical significance:

3.2 Annotation
3.2.1 Resume the text in a few sentences

3.2.2 List the information you learnt in the table 1.2 Define the degree of self-descriptiveness.
 Notes

 Для успешного выполнения проекта, эффективное планирование имеет важное значение. Те, кто участвует в
разработке и осуществлении в вопросе инфраструктуры необходимо учитывать: воздействие на окружающую
среду работы, успешное планирование, бюджетирование, безопасность сайта, наличие материалов, логистики,
неудобства для общественности, вызванной строительство Задержки, подготовкой тендерной документации и
т.д. Подавляющее большинство строительных проектов - это небольшие ремонтные работы, например,
добавление комнаты или ремонт ванной комнаты. Зачастую владелец собственности выступает в качестве
работника, финасиста и дизайнера проекта в целом . Однако все строительные проекты включают в себя
некоторые элементы, общие дизайн, финансовые и юридические аспекты. Многие проекты разного размера
достигают нежелательных конечных результатов, таких как структурный коллапс, перерасход средств и / или
причина судебных решений, те, у кого есть опыт в этой области, составляют подробный план обслуживания …
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