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When most people think about Brinks home alarm systems, they envision alarms or possibly barred windows. Taking a more proactive approach with outdoor lighting can help to deter the criminal element before breaching a house alarm system. As well as providing home protection, exterior lighting likewise helps to enhance the advantage of a home while accentuating natural landscape and features.

Improve Your Home Security SystemBefore installing outdoor lighting it is important to know where the lighting will best be used and what kind of lights will bring probably the most advantage to home security. For ideas on where you can place lighting it is advisable to walk round the homes perimeter near dusk. Make note of any areas which are poorly illuminated or obscure from public view. They are locations where lighting is going to be needed most. Furthermore, it needs to be noted of locations where there is certainly overgrown foliage that could provide concealment for would-be intruders.

Security Lighting

Once lighting locations have already been identified, the next step to accomplish is decide which kind of lighting is going to be used. Each type of illumination source has advantages and disadvantages that will have to be evaluated. Some of the popular lighting configurations include Motion Activated, Hi Low Combination, and All-Night lighting.

Motion activated lights add a sensor that allows lights to ignite when motion is detected. This will immediately shine the lighting in the area in which the light is directed. The trick to owning a powerful motion sensor would be to understand where you can put them for the most effective use. If there are going to be pets inside the yard, this has to be considered so that lights are not constantly illuminated.

A high-low combination light is lit throughout the night having a low emitting lumen. Upon the sensor activation lumens are increased making the region temporarily brighter. This type of lighting fixture is usually preferred due to the low impact on the electric bills. The price is minimal to function.

Motion Detecting Lights

All-night lights are also known as dusk to dawn lighting. It really is a continuous source of light that frequently involves an easy activated photocell. This can be probably the most costly lighting option that can be selected. It can also lead to problems with neighbors if the lights are put into inconvenient places. Lighting shields can help with this interference, but may provide less than desirable light when used.

Light pollution has become a concern, especially for urban developers. Use exterior lighting only where and after it is required. Tend not to over light a place as this may lead to glare and shadowing. Flood and spotlights are acceptable for large estates, however, not practical for the average sized home. Additionally, lighting should only provide illumination to the area intended.

To gain probably the most advantage of CPI security system combined with lighting, it is important to keep fixtures clean and clear of dust and debris. They ought to be checked periodically for effectiveness. Bulbs should be changed regularly before their end of lifespan. When strategically placed, exterior lights can offer security and great looking light to homes

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The residential steel building is used for a wide range of different purposes. Did you know that you can create a good-looking and affordable home from a prefabricated residential steel building? Earlier, most steel buildings were barren constructions only used as storage facilities, low end shopping barns or assembly factories. This is however a thing from the past, because today you can select between a wide range of aesthetically appealing designs when you purchase a residential steel building. Stop wasting time looking for real estate, and start creating your own home from scratch.

The price of real estate has skyrocketed in many regions, and it can be hard for families with normal incomes to purchase their own home. By purchasing a residential steel building, you can start in the other end.

Importance of Location

Residential Steel BuildingFirst, you locate a beautiful place where you would like to live and then your erect a house on that spot. A residential steel building can blend in nicely with any neighbourhood. You can for instance choose to have your house decorated with stucco, masonry or decorative panelling. Even the prefabricated residential steel building can today be obtained in a wide range of charming colours and protective outer coatings. You will not only save money by avoiding expensive real estate – you will also get a house that is remarkably low maintenance. A prefabricated residential steel building can be ready for move in when a traditional house would still be nothing but blueprints. The rapid and hassle free assembly process also means that you don’t have to pay for months or man hours and heavy machinery rental.

Many homeowners opt for the residential steel building when they need to add new storage space, a garage or a workshop to their home. Steel is a very strong building material that allows flexible designs, such as the highly popular clear span construction. Even if you are on a limited budget, you can start protecting your cars and other belongings by erecting an affordable steel carport from an assembly kit. Storing your possessions in a high-quality residential steel building will protect them from the wear and tear of the elements and lower the need for repairs and maintenance. They will also be effectively protected from theft and sabotage.

Brief History of Steel Buildings

The history of the residential steel building is a short one. Earlier, people create homes and storages out of wood, bricks, dirt or stones. It wasn’t until the middle of the 1800’s that man learned how to mass produce high-quality steel from iron. During the later half of the 19th century, metal constructions began to appear in urban areas, but it would take several decades before steel had become affordable enough to be commonly used in residential steel buildings.

One of the most important steps on the road towards the high-quality residential steel building of today was however taken several thousand years ago, at some point between the 12th and 10th century B.C. This step was the invention of a method that made it possible to perform carburization. During carburization, the amount of carbon in iron can be increased. Carbon act as a hardening agent, and by increasing the amount of carbon in iron you can turn it into high-quality steel that can be used for various tasks, including the construction of a residential steel building.

Residential Steel BuildingThe residential steel building is today used for a vast array of different purposes and is highly appreciated all over the world. Today, it is not hard to create a comfortable and stylish home from a residential steel building. Many homeowners also take advantage of the benefits of the residential steel building when in need of more storage space, a much sought after workshop, a room in which to carry out a hobby, or a protective garage or carport for their beloved automobiles.

Purchasing a Residential Steel Building

When you purchase a residential steel building, you naturally want one that has been made out of high-quality durable steel. You want a residential steel building that is weather resilient, low maintenance and capable of standing tall amidst anything from fire to hailstorms. Throughout most of man’s history, obtaining this type of high quality steel has been an arduous task and it wasn’t until the middle of the 1800’s that mass-production of high-quality steel begun.

Before that, steel was too precious to be used as building material for a residential steel building. A lot of the steel was also of an inferior quality, and would for instance be unable to withstand the enormous heat that can develop during a fire. Creating a residential steel building was therefore not a feasible idea, a homes as well as storages was instead built out of timber, stones, bricks or even dirt.

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From the documentary’s synopsis:

“The neoliberal transformation that swept through the world economy during the 1980’s, and along with it the globalization process that picked up speed, brought with it a deep transformation in cities all over the world. For this new finance-centered economic structure, urban land became a tool for capital accumulation, which had deep effects on major cities of developing countries. In Istanbul, which already lacked a tradition of principled planning, the administrators of the city blindly adopted the neoliberal approach that put financial gain ahead of people’s needs; everyone fought to get a piece of the loot; and the result is a megashantytown of 15 million struggling with mesh of life-threatening problems.

Especially in the past 10 years, as the World Bank foresaw in its reports, Istanbul has been changing from an industrial city to a finance and service-centered city, competing with other world cities for investment. Making Istanbul attractive for investors requires not only the abolishment of legal controls that look out for the public good, but also a parallel transformation of the users of the city. This means that the working class who actually built the city as an industrial center no longer have a place in the new consumption-centered finance and service city. So what is planned for these people?This is where the “urban renewal” projects come into play. Armed with new powers never before imagined, TOKI (State Housing Administration), together with the municipalities and private investors, are trying to reshape the urban landscape in this new vision. With international capital behind them, land plans in their hands, square meters and building coefficients in their minds, they are demolishing neighborhoods, and instead building skyscrapers, highways and shopping malls. But who do these new spaces serve?

The huge gap between the rich and the poor in Istanbul is reflected more and more in the urban landscape, and at the same time feeds on the spatial segregation. While the rich isolate themselves in gated communities, residences and plazas; new poverty cycles born in social housing communities on the prifery of the city designed as human depots continue to push millions to desperation and hopelessness. So who is responsible for this social legacy that we are leaving for future generations?While billions of dollars are wasted on new road tunnels, junctions, and viaducts with a complete disregard for the scientific fact that all new roads eventually create their own traffic, Istanbul in 2010 has to contend with a single-line eight-station metro “system”. Due to insufficient budget allocations for mass public transportation, rail and other alternative transport systems, millions of people are tormented in traffic, and billions of dollars worth of time go out the exhaust pipe. What do our administrators do? You guessed right: more roads!

Everything changes so fast in this city of 15 million that it is impossible to even take a snap-shot for planning. Plans are outdated even as they are being made. A chronic case of planlessness. Meanwhile, the population keeps increasing and the city expands uncontrollably pushing up against Tekirdağ in the east and Kocaeli in the west. But does Istanbul really have a plan?In 1980 the first plan for Istanbul on a metropolitan scale was produced. In that plan report, it is noted that the topography and the geographic nature of the city would only support a maximum population of 5 million. At the time, Istanbul had 3.5 million people living in it. Now we are 15 million, and in 15 years we will be 23 million. Almost 5 times the sustainable size. Today we bring water to Istanbul from as far away as Bolu, and suck-up the entire water in Thrace, destroying the natural environment there. The northern forest areas disappear at a rapid pace, and the project for a 3rd bridge over the Bosphorous is threatening the remaining forests and water reservoirs giving life to Istanbul. The bridges that connect the two continents are segregating our society through the urban land speculation that they trigger. So what are we, the people of Istanbul, doing against this pillage?

If cities are a reflection of the society, what can we say about ourselves by looking at Istanbul? What kind of city are we leaving behind for future generations? Ecological limits have been surpassed. Economic limits have been surpassed. Population limits have been surpassed. Social cohesion has been lost. Here is the picture of neoliberal urbanism: Ecumenopolis.

Ecumenopolis aims for a holistic approach to Istanbul, questioning not only the transformation, but the dynamics behind it as well. From demolished shantytowns to the tops of skyscrapers, from the depths of Marmaray to the alternative routes of the 3rd bridge, from real estate investors to urban opposition, the film will take us on a long journey in this city without limits. We will speak with experts, academics, writers, investors, city-dwellers, and community leaders; and we will take a look at the city on a macro level through animated maps and graphics. Perhaps you will rediscover the city that you live in and we hope that you will not sit back and watch this transformation but question it. In the end this is what democracy requires of us.