Hi, my name's Tom Simpkins, and I'm a mechanical engineering major at the University of Pittsburgh. I currently live in and am originally from the city of Clairton on the outskirts of Pittsburgh. I grew up in Hershey, however, as I attended the Milton Hershey boarding school in western PA. I chose to attend the University of Pittsburgh mainly because of my desire to be back near home and my family. I have greatly enjoyed my time here because of the amazing people I have met as well as the landscape of the University throughout the city. Next semester, I am choosing to enter into the mechanical engineering program because I enjoy the design and construction of products. I have always been interested in how things work and am constantly taking things apart. I've also been involved in construction most of my life because of my parents working in the home remodeling and repair business. I also worked in stage production doing both design of the sets as well as building and painting sets and running an entire musical my junior year. Outside of school, I'm really interested in music in general. I play guitar and drums and was involved in drumline my senior year. I'll listen to most things from rock to punk to metal to even some country and enjoy learning the various musical styles. Other than that, I play video games, mostly role-playing games and music/rhythm games. I'm big into reading also, mostly sci-fi/fantasy stuff and Stephan King novels, though I haven't had much time to read recently. In high school, I used to run cross country and track and play hackysack every morning, though hackysack is the only one I still do today.
Site Condition Analysis of Aliquippa Place Housing Facility
The OPDC has recently acquired a series of six buildings in Aliquippa Place
within the Oakland community and wishes for them to be analyzed for prominent
issues and for other housing improvement possibilities before being used.
OPDC was founded by Community human Services Corporation and Peoples Oakland in 1980 to serve as a development organization for the Oakland neighborhood. It's Mission is to work with and engage the community residents in planning and development activities that benefit the Oakland neighborhoods. OPDC is located at 235 Atwood Street.
Here is a guide to making retaining walls for houses, including the common problems associated with their construction and maintenance.
This is a similar site analysis conducted on buildings in the city of St. Louis. Though this study is done on a much larger scale, the majority of buildings appear to have similar conditions to those of the city of Pittsburgh in the area we will be studying.
This agency in Pittsburgh is responsible for much housing construction, rehabilitation, home purchases and improvements within the city. Many similar projects to this have been previously conducted by them.