ABSTRACT: The highly complex and interdependent nature of modern construction operations means that the use of historical data as a basis for computer simulations of new projects raises validity issues; hence introducing uncertainties in terms of time and cost in the planning and scheduling process. To tackle this problem, the use of real time data in simulation studies has been introduced and practiced in recent years. However, a major challenge related to this approach is deciding at which point during a current construction activity, the data collected represents a valid sample on which to base subsequent plans and schedules for the entire activity. Using data available in concrete placing from constructed projects, this paper examines the validity and reliability of forecasted results using different segments from the datasets available. For this purpose, a discrete event simulation model for concrete delivery and pour was developed and validated. Available datasets were statistically analyzed and then segmented based on the percentage of the activity completed. Each cumulative data segment was then used in the model to simulate the end result. Simulation results at each stage were compared to actual project data and the standard deviation and variance were recorded. Ultimately, the cumulative segment with accuracy at greater than the 95% confidence level was recommended for use in scheduling.

R.S. (M.B.Env, M.EngSc, B.Sc)

I’m getting published…
my first contribution to academia!
its interesting,
no… its fascinating…
when I first wrote this paper I didn’t understand research…
i didnt know shit about conducting a research…
how to underpin its  philosophical foundation
how to validate my conclusion
how to examine the reliability of my methods
all I cared about was to get published
as if i had to prove something
to show off
to show myslef that i can perhaps?

i don’t know what it was…
now i learned it all … how to do it the right way
the long way…. the hard way
and i learned more than that
my thesis taught me what it is to be happy
its funny how life comes full circle
it was painful… it was frustrating….
but i learned to care for things i never valued before
and i learned to have an identity… to desire and pursue things that have a value to me and not to others
so when my advisor asked if i want to submit a paper on my new thesis
i just said no
he asked why and tried to change my mind
he said how this would represent a shift in my multidisciplinary background while bringing them all together at the same time
he said how its a dream to others to have publications by my age

i just said no
maybe cause i’m just tried
maybe cause now i view knowledge much like wealth; one that you can never get enough of… one that would consume your life… all your time and mind …your true gift
or maybe cause it’s just not my dream

My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first. There are no forests left on my Earth. the air is grey, the sky is grey, it is always hot. . . .We survive there, as you do. People are tough! there are nearly a half billion of us now. Once there were nine billion. You can see the old cities still everywhere. the bones and bricks go to dust, but the little pieces of plastic never do — they never adapt either. We failed as a species, as a social species.

The Dispossessed

we search for happiness… but happiness is an illusion
we search for love… but love is an illusion
we search for companionship… but true friendship is an illusion
we are all looking for something real… but the truth is just an illusion in our realities.
The truth lays outside of my reality and I’m confined by what seems real to me.
It ended as simple as it had started and I realized I don’t know a thing about what I really want.
I always thought someone like her would be the ultimate dream… no drama, no nonsense , no battle.
we lived together for almost a year but there was always something missing.
I had fooled myself that I’m happy, that this is what I always wanted.
Maybe she wasn’t the right person, that is if there is such a thing as the right person. Maybe it would all make more sense if it was with that right person. I’m searching. Searching for something real. Something beyond what I can feel.
But what if there is nothing real in my reality?

i really do!

my body is a cage…

doable?

Milan
Venice
Vicenza
Verona
Ravenna
Florence
Cinque Tere
Siena
Sicily
Rome
Naples
Sorrento
Puglia Region
Milan

time will tell but i do deserve a little time off don’t i?

work and studies have taken over me… or maybe i’ve become them..
i used to laugh at Hillary for staying in office so long yet i’m the same now
my life is work uni sleep and period at the moment and that’s not sustainable!

remember resilience?  there’s always a limit! we are so fucking limited…
miserable confined creatures, that’s what we are
one day i’ll break out of the system but more on that later