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Weather for the AT

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Weather for the AT Part 1 the Seasons Most if on all our external skin detailing is geared to the weather, ok the look, and feel is massive, but the weather is all-encompassing, get it wrong and the building will fail. So in this series of CPD lectures, I want to outline just what the weather is, the power it can muster and just how we can predict some of the weathers force by good observation looking at the past, and understanding some basic weather law. This first lecture is all about the Solar System, what you ask, why do we have to look at the stars, well its not the stars, just our immediate part of the solar system, our tilt, orbit and the moon. All three form the basis of all-weather. The first point of interest is the tilt, Earth in its formation was hit by another planet, astronomers call it Theo, and the earth at this point in time Proto Earth. The collision between the two planets pushed the earths axis into a tilt of 23.4 degrees away from the Earths orbital Plane and left ...

AT-CPD

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 AT-CPD Well its been a long time in coming, but now I have almost retired, I have time to explore a podcast that's been sitting in the back of my mind for such a long time. All my sites You will know that I have both a Scays.co.uk site, and an AT-CPD.co.uk web site the Scays site is predominantly a repository for all my lectures, aimed, in the beginning, for my past students to get hold of lecture slide notes I gave, they often lose access to the Moodle page they were originally listed, so this is a way for them to stay in touch and flood for those old slides.  Scays.co.uk All my slides given over several years teaching AT students and also BS, retail, and Planners. But as always if your in the business of construction, take a looked at the website SCAYS.CO.UK  you might find subjects for your CPD and use it to kickstart your CPD AT-CPD.co.uk The AT-CPD is a new site to allow me to talk and promote the idea of CPD for Architectural Technologists, aimed at, yes AT's but ...