Tag: Building Construction
Drones in Construction – Complete Report and Blue Print
Drones, Connectivity, and Job Sites of the Future The construction industry holds some of the most diverse and creative use cases for drones. But launching…
Calling All Presentations for the ASCE 2017 Convention
Call for Presentations now Open! The ASCE 2016 Convention was a resounding Success. The attendees gave the educational content a 93 percent satisfaction rating. This…
Indian Highway Projects increases to 1.40 lakh kilometer
In order to build the required road infrastructure both in the rural and urban areas of the country, the government has decided to increase the…
ACC Coolcrete Ready mix concrete
Coolcrete : Ready-Mix Concrete Temperature – controlled Concrete. Coolcrete has placement temperatures much below ambient temperatures and and can be designed as low as 12…
Concrete Society Report – Concrete core testing for strength
Report of Concrete Society working Party. This report provides recommended procedures for obtaining and the compressive testing of concrete cores and for the interpretation of the…
First cable-stayed bridge for monorail built in Korea
SK Engineering & Construction Co. has completed construction of the first cable-stayed bridge for a new monorail in Korea. The nearly 700-foot-long span has a…
Chocolate being studied as a building material
I am making my own house by Chocolate : Do You! Two Princeton University researchers are studying the use of a compound chocolate as a…
Pile Foundation Failure and Remedies
Pile foundation is widely used deep foundation for complex geologic conditions with kinds of load conditions, especially for soft soil foundation. Pile foundation has large…
Extracting Concreting Cores and Testing for Strength
While Rebound Hammer, CAPO/Pullout, Windsor probe and ultrasonic pulse velocity tests give indirect evidence of concrete quality, a more direct assessment on strength can be made by core sampling and testing. Cores are…
Calculating Concrete Mix Design Strength
Factors that affects the concrete mix design strengths are: Variables in Mix Design A. Water/cement ratio B. Cement content C. Relative proportion of fine &…