Concrete admixtures Construction materials Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction Introduction The High-performance concrete (HPC) is a mixture of many materials usually 5-10. The interaction between these materials is the reason of the various workability cases, and also the different ratios and portions added causes this variability. Testing the concrete is not the best solution for examining the workability properties, The testing process of the concrete need huge number of labor and ma...
Nandhini S, Nandhini D Department of Civil Engineering Panimalar Engineering College ABSTRACT: This paper deals with our primary objective of gaining knowledge in the field of green buildings which includes the study of energy bricks. Conventional brick is made of a mixture of clay, sand and water mixed with a binding material. It has many disadvantages such as CO2 emission, needs maintenance, destruction of top layer soil, etc. But, Energy Brick performs all the standards to reduce construct...
Mr Alex Cheah the owner of the land plot 23A in Petaling Jaya Seksyen 13 is planning to build his own single storey bungalow house. It has always been Mr Alex Cheah's dream to build his own dream home. Mr Alex wants his dream home to have a modern concept with all the latest facilities and equipment. In order to make this dream reality Mr Alex Cheah as the project sponsor has appointed Sunway Group Berhad as the developer of Mr Alex's future single storey bungalow house. Developer is the big ...
The factor time within building projects is on high pressure because the need for faster delivery of building is rising. Fast track project delivery technique is designed to leverage the ability to execute Design, Procurement and Construction phases simultaneously to substantially reduce the project schedule. The design phase assumes increased importance in Fast track projects because design and construction are executed almost simultaneously with very little or no lag between design and cons...
In the construction industry, projects can be delayed among large number of causes. There are different type and categories of delays found on construction Projects. Delay has major effect on completion cost and time of construction Project. Delays can be minimized if they were identifying causes. Knowing the cause of any particular delay in a construction project would help avoiding the same. Even though with different types of studies have been carried out to identify the factors influence ...
This chapter describes the implementation of housing delivery system in Singapore. There are some countries that adopting BTS system as housing delivery system, which include Australia, Singapore, United Kingdom and other countries. Among these country, housing delivery system in Singapore is chosen to be compared with the housing delivery system in Malaysia because of the location, environment and home-buyers' demand on the houses. Since Singapore is located beside Malaysia, the environment ...
During my placement year I worked for North Midland Construction Plc. They are a medium sized company with their main office situated in Huthwaite, Nottinghamshire. North Midland Construction (herein NMC) is operated as 5 divisions. Civil Engineering Division Highways and Special Projects Utilities North Midland Building Ltd Nomenca Ltd During my placement I was working within the Civil Engineering Division. Throughout the 15 month placement I worked on various projects. 1.2-Site Structure Th...
The concept of recycling old construction debris and materials and then using them as aggregate in new construction projects has been practised for decades. It was firstly known in the Romans time when they reused the stones and rubbles from old roads in building new ones. The strategy of recycling the construction waste (CW) and demolition materials (DM) was established in Europe just after the end of the Second World War in the late 1940 when recycled materials from demolished buildings wer...
This written report will critically discuss the role of the Quantity Surveying in the short form named QS within the contemporary built environment. Before discuss or considering about what is the changing role of Quantity Surveyor is in the future, the background of the Quantity Surveying is worthwhile to have a review. The traditional roles and evolved roles of Quantity Surveryor will be briefly discussed. Least, the responsibilities of Quantity Surveyor will be carried out too. Background ...
Understand that due to the terrible weather and severe storm, a significant damage was happened to Cinnamon Grand hotels. As a result, the hotel management board requested for advice on selecting an appropriate procurement route after deciding to reconstruct the destroyed buildings. There are a few procurement routes could be selected amongst traditional procurement route and non-traditional procurement routes which includes Design and Build, Management Contracting and Construction Management...
