Pedro's+Glossary

Teacher's check on Nov.28th, 2009! Comment: What about your sentences??????????? Just 5 words in 10 weeks??????


 * Infrastructure** - permanent resources serving society's needs, including roads, sewers, schools, hospitals, railways, communication networks etc.




 * Metropolitan** - constituting a large urban area, usually including a city, its suburbs and outlying areas.



Sustainable Development** - environmentally responsible development, commonly defined as "development which meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs".**


 * Town Centre** - describes city, town and traditional suburban centres which provide a broad range of facilities and services and which fulfil a function as a focus for a community and for public transport.


 * Development Area** - a priority area for environmental, social or economic regeneration or a combination of these.



Building Information Modeling (BIM): is the process of generating and managing building data during its life cycle[1]. Typically it uses three-dimensional, real-time, dynamic building modeling software to increase productivity in building design and construction.[2] The process produces the Building Information Model (also abbreviated BIM), which encompasses building geometry, spatial relationships, geographic information, and quantities and properties of building components.

Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computer technology for the design of objects, real or virtual. CAD often involves more than just shapes. As in the manual drafting of technical and engineering drawings, the output of CAD often must convey also symbolic information such as materials, processes, dimensions, and tolerances, according to application-specific conventions.

atelier: workshop or place where the artist plastic works.

metaverse:The Metaverse is a fictional virtual world, described in Neal Stephenson's 1992 science fiction novel Snow Crash, where humans, as avatars, interact with each other and software agents, in a three-dimensional space that uses the metaphor of the real world.

summary: is a shortened version of the original. The main purpose of such a simplification is to highlight the major points from the original (much longer) subject, e.g. a text, a film or an event.

sustainable development: is a pattern of resource use that aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but also for future generations.

roads: is an identifiable route, way or path between places.

ecological house: are houses where the structure and characteristics help preserve the world's energy savings.

bio construction: Are called bio-building systems or establishing homes, shelters or other structures, with materials of low environmental impact or ecological.

sponsor: a company or foundation is sponsoring a special event lagun.

environment: The complex of physical, chemical, and biotic factors (as climate, soil, and living things) that act upon an organism or an ecological community and ultimately determine its form and survival.