GATEWAY PARK PROJECT: CEMENTITIOUS UNDERLAYMENT & INFORMATION EXCHANGE

Two aspects of the construction of the Gateway Park Project were studied: the cracking of the cementitious underlayment of the floors at 68 Prescott Street and information exchange between owners and construction managers. An investigation into the behavior of timber/concrete floors was conducted by testing a composite and noncomposite system, as well as performing a cost analysis. Information exchange was evaluated through use of surveys and meeting checklists

Inquiry into a regionalized dispatch center for Plymouth County.

This study focuses on Plymouth County, Massachusetts and how well it complies with the standards of operation set by the National Fire Protection Association, with special attention paid to potential methods of improving service. Statistical analysis of fire departments and personal interviews were used as data collection methods. Results demonstrate that a regionalized dispatch center has the potential to allow towns to comply with dispatching standards and that a regionalized dispatch center would be more cost effective than individual dispatching services

History Education, Citizenship, and State Formation

This chapter has two main aims. The first is to establish the close historical and ideological relationship between the construction of nation-states, the development of the profession of history, and the emergence of modern schooling systems, all of which were evolving during the “long nineteenth century” in Europe. The focus is particularly on history education given its citizen-shaping agenda of forging national identity and shaping historical consciousness. The second aim is to reanimate debates about the role of history education today. This proceeds by arguing that a shift in the experience and understanding of temporality which has occurred in the post-Cold War era has triggered a crisis of legitimacy for the nation-state, which has generated two related responses in Western democratic nation-states since 1989: an increased reflection and attachment to national identity and an impetus to reckon with the problematic past. Here, history education has come to be positioned as both a prominent target of memory contests, as well as a solution and tool of justice and reconciliation, and a means by which to regenerate the nation-state amidst a crisis of legitimacy precipitated by the lack of recourse to an unproblematic national past