For recent years, the field of civil engineering has been developing as manifested with the increasing number of teenagers who would like to take it as a degree. In fact, I have a cousin who decided to take this career path and now, he cannot be …
Preparing quantity for steel bars in every construction is a laborious work. It needs a skilled and experienced quantity surveyor, estimators or engineers to create one. Every section, sub-section, and parts of the plans with reinforcing bars should be included as missing one would be costly …
Construction Manager plays an important role in building construction. They are the head personnel that runs the entire project from the pre-planning, budgeting, to actual day one of the projects, until the completion and building turnover. Thus, hiring highly skilled and experienced construction managers is a …
A site engineer has important roles in the construction of a building, bridge, dam, infrastructure project, and several others related project. A project without a “site engineer” might be considered as a paralyzed project with a broken organization. He or She should be the engine of …
Building a home is everyone’s dream. It is important that it is well planned and designed before the actual construction begins. But, don’t you know that there are common problems you will encounter in when building your home. Many people may not afford to hire a …
In the construction of a building, the most important part is the foundation and one of these foundations are called footing, because it bears the full load of the building. But there are many types of foundation that we have considered and used—which depends on the …
The installation of forms—sometimes called shuttering—for a slab, when covering an area of more than a thousand square meters, is easier than removing the forms later, after the concrete has been poured and that’s usually called de-shuttering. You might imagine that is easy to remove the …