Case Study 1

Vehicles piled up after the parking roof collapsed. — Supplied photo

According to the Abu Dhabi Police, the entire roof of the parking covering an area of 1,400 square metres suddenly collapsed damaging most of the vehicles parked at the time of the incident.

“Immediately after being informed of the collapse, rescue and search teams and ambulances with paramedics were rushed and a field hospital was established at the site. For their safety, the residents of the residential complex were immediately evacuated and provided accommodation at a hotel by the property management,” said Lt. Col. Mohammed Al Ansari, head of the Search and Rescue Department at the Abu Dhabi Police.

There were no injuries as nobody was in parking area at the time of the accident, he explained, adding that the field hospital was established as a precautionary measure, anticipating people lying injured under the roof debris.

Lt. Col. Al Ansari further added an investigation is underway to find out what caused the roof collapse. “Experts will test the soil, and review the engineering design to determine the exact cause of the accident,” he said.

The area around the complex has been cordoned off as a precautionary measure as well as help complete the field investigation,” he said.

Meanwhile, Sorouh, the developers of the complex, in a statement said they provide the best safety, pointing out that they have cooperated with the Civil Defence in the evacuation of residents to the main entrance of the project.

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Discussion  and Conclusion 

           This collapse was in a car parking roof  Al Rayaana complex at Khalfa City.The complex has 33 buildings and about 1500 flats .The parking surface moved two meters down. The collapse happened because of there is caves underground . The construction company  didn't do proper soil testing and added garden on the parking roof. In Khalifa Cites A and B underground has many caves . so this area needs  soil test in more points .

                

   

                                            The American Declaration of Independence:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

The Declaration was largely the work of Thomas Jefferson, who later became the 3rd President of the United States. It is really the basis of what we call rights ethics.
This basically rests on the view that all human beings have human rights. Human rights are not legal rights. They are universal and so democratic. They fit in with what Abraham Lincoln in the Gettysburg address (November 1864) described as 'government of the people, by the people, for the people'.
Human rights rely on the belief that other people have a duty to respect our rights. 

Jean-Jacques Rousseau:

"Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains" That was the first sentence of Rousseau's "The Social Contract."

This was the concept of ‘the noble savage’.

Thomas Hobbes:

"In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain, and consequently, not culture of the earth, no navigation, nor the use of commodities that may be imported by sea, no commodious building, no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force, no knowledge of the face of the earth, no account of time, no arts, no letters, no society, and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."

Aluminium cans

Approximately 1 billion are produced in the USA each year. The first can was designed in 1958 by Kaiser Aluminium. This metal proved ideal as it was a lightweight, flexible material that allowed manufacturing of the bottom & sides of the can from a single sheet, leaving the top to be added after the can was filled.

The first cans were opened with a separate opener but this was inconvenient so Ermal Fraze designed a small lever attached to the can which was removed as the can was opened.

The design was workable but after a while it created an ethical dilemma:

The main disadvantage of this kind of taps was it could cut the fingers while they open the can . There are other dilemmas like throwing the taps on the ground . Because it is small people ignore throw it on the trash . In the end you will see a lot of taps on the ground   

 

So in 1976 Daniel F. Cudzik invented a simple, stay-attached opener of the sort familiar today.

As improvements were made in the design & production of aluminium cans, various  ethical problems arose concerning:

a.      Human safety:

The bottles are more healthy because the glass doesn't react with the drink   

Aluminums cans can make fingers injuries with the sharp edges 

b.     Environmental pollution:

                    Cans and bottles both are recycle.  But the  the glass doesn't react with time as the aluminum cans  

c.      Convenience:

          

                      Its not comfortable to drink with the fixed tap on the top of the can . Which could hit the nose . The new kind of taps comes with small hole which convinces with some people   

d.     Money:  

The aluminum is cheaper then class bottles and easy to  get rid of it. Unless refilling the  glass bottles they will be cheaper then aluminum.