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Design of a safety training package for migrant workers in the construction industry
2021
Abstract The construction sector is known as a high-risk sector with many safety challenges. It is also characterised by a large number of migrant workers and these workers report higher accident rates than native workers. This paper presents the design of the CSTP (Construction Safety Training Programme). The CSTP is a theory-based training program aimed at improving safety behaviours in construction sites acknowledging the particular challenges migrant workers face. Based on second and third generational models of training, we developed a training program that addresses the challenges faced by migrant workers in the construction industry, namely language and cultural barriers, times press…
En contexte ou hors contexte : lecture des matériaux et lecture du bâti
2020
Le choix des matériaux occupe une place importante dans l’élaboration du projet architectural, et détermine des orientations essentielles pour le chantier, dans la réalisation de celui-ci, son organisation, voire sa progression. Loin de se résumer à un simple descripteur ou accessoire de la stratigraphie du bâtiment, les matériaux de construction sont avant tout le reflet d’une réalité complexe du chantier à la fois matérielle et immatérielle : projet, exigences et capacité financière du commanditaire, réseaux d’échange, environnement sollicité. Leur prise en compte dans l’analyse du bâti transcende la logique stratigraphique, en épaulant celle-ci là où elle fait défaut et en replaçant la r…
Building the Defenses. The Construction Sites of the Fortifications of Trapani and Palermo in the First Decades of 16th Century
2016
La registrazione quotidiana di tutti i costi, comprese le retribuzioni dei lavoratori, era una prassi nei cantieri delle fortificazioni in Sicilia. Sfortunatamente questi registri sono andati perduti, con l'eccezione di un volume che registra i conti per la costruzione delle fortificazioni di Trapani nel 1527 e nel 1528, e altri due relativi a Palermo, che datano tra il 12 novembre del 1536 r il 23 agosto del 1539. Il registro relativo alle mura di Trapani testimonia l'andamento dei lavori di quello che può essere considerato il primo progetto in Sicilia per l'intero ridisegno delle difese urbiche secondo i principi della fortificazione all'italiana, e di certo la più importante opera dell'…
Action-Depicting Gestures and Morphosyntax: The Function of Gesture-Speech Alignment in the Conversational Turn
2021
The current study examines the role of action-depicting gestures in conversational turns by focusing on their semantic characteristics and temporal position in relation to their verbal affiliates (action verbs or more complex verb phrases). The data are video recordings of naturally occurring interactions in multilingual construction sites in Norway. The analysis distinguishes two modes of action depiction: generic depictions, which represent the action as a general type, and contextualized depictions, which in addition include deictic references to the spatio-material environment or iconic representations of the specific manner of action performance. These two modes typically occupy differ…