2. To Do List
● Statistics
● Our collected data/weird stats
● Our research into architecture/inspiration.
● Research/making our building
sustainable/livable
● Our concepts/sketches plus relation to data.
● The finished Video 2mins?
4. WALLS
Belfast has - 48 peace walls adding up to about 21 miles
study was released in 2012 indicating that 69% of residents believe that the peace walls are still necessary because of potential violence
Northern Ireland Executive committed to the removal of all peace lines by mutual consent by 2023
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WATER
• Investment of more than £1 billion in improvements to water infrastructure and completion of the £160 million Belfast Sewers Project resulting in improvements to water quality in the River Lagan and reducing the risk of flooding;
http://www.northernireland.gov.uk/pfg-2011-2015-final-report.pdf
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TROUBLES
The Troubles began in the late 1960s and is deemed by many to have ended with the Belfast "Good Friday" Agreement of 1998. This agreement included ceasefires by most paramilitary organisations
the complete decommissioning of the IRA's weapons, the reform of the police, and the corresponding withdrawal of the British Army from the streets and sensitive border areas
Between 1969 and 2001, 3,531 people were killed as a result of the conflict. 1,541 of these killed where in belfast.
west - 623
north - 577
south - 213
east - 128
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles#Casualties
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HARBOUR
Belfast Harbour is a major maritime hub in Northern Ireland, handling 67% of Northern Ireland’s seaborne trade and about 25% of the maritime trade of the entire island of Ireland.
Over 700 firms employing 23,000 people are located within the estate.
In 2012 the harbour handled a record 19.6m tonnes
Belfast Harbour has extensive property interests coverint about 1,950 acres (790 ha). 855 acres are used directly for port operations, 90 acres (360,000 m2) are reserved for nature conservation and the remaining 1,005 are either leased
or under negotiation.
With high specification facilities including two of the largest dry docks in Europe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belfast_Harbour
5. UNIMPLOYMENT
Northern Ireland still has the UK’s highest claimant count at 5.9%.
with youth unemployment 20% compared to the UK’s rate of 14.5%.
belfast unemployment rate 5.7> after derry this is the highest unemployment rate in the uk
http://www.ninis2.nisra.gov.uk/InteractiveMaps/Labour%20Market/Claimant%20Count%20Monthly%20Averages%20LGD2014/atl
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Belfast (2011) = £33,190 per head.
£11,820 MORE than the UK mean value of £21,370 per head
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FOOD
dormant person food needs
1500 calories
56grams of protein = 224 calories
33.3 grams of fat = 300
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The data, obtained from Experian, detailed a total of 152 cafes, 180 restaurants, 127 public houses and 29 bars/wine bars within
the Belfast area.
6. Blood weight
"A pint's a pound, the world around!"
That's an old expression for figuring the approximate weight of water, which is what your blood is, mostly. According to
everyone's favorite reference, Wikipedia, blood is only slightly denser than water, so the formula would hold for it.
To be more precise, blood has a density of 1060 grams per liter. Using standard conversion factors,
1 gallon ≈ 3.78 liters.
1 pint ≈ 3.78/8 liters, or .4725 liters, so
.4725 * 1060 grams = 500.85 grams. or 0.50085 kg.
The average adult has about 10 pints of blood in his body. Roughly 1pint is given during a donation. A healthy donor may
donate red bloodcells every 56 days, or double red cells every 112 days. A healthy donor may donate platelets as few as 7 days
apart, but a maximum of 24 times a year.
therefore one person has roughly 5.009kgs of blood and with an estimate of 280,962 people living in belfast, this makes the
total blood weight approximately 1,407,338.658kgs or 1407.339 metric tons
7. Breathing Weight
7,889,400 breaths per year
0.5 liters/breath
265 million liters of air fit in a cube with sides of about 64.2 meters long.
St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City has a gross volume of 1.2 million cubic meters. Enough for the lifetimes of about 4.5
persons.
280,962 people in belfast means in a year we breathe about 2,216,621,602,800 and that’s breathing at rest.
taking that each breath is 0.5 liters, this amounts to 1,108,310,801,400 liters of air for everyone in belfast each year.
The density of air is approximately 1.3 kg/m at sea level, varying slightly with changes in humidity, One cubic meter also
equals 1000 liters.
therefore that = 1,108,310,801.4 cubic meters of air which weighs 1,440,804,041.82kgs or 1,440,804.04 metric tons of air.
OR enough to fill St. Peters Basilica 924 times.
