Mjøstårnet (pronounced:/mæo-stâr-n?t/) is the tallest timber building in the world. It is a big step towards the adoption of green construction as it portrays timber as an exceptional replacement for bricks and cement. Mjøstårnet is 84.5 m tall and stands ...
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Pixel Building: A Check on Carbon Emissions
The building construction sector is a significant contributor to the overall global carbon emissions. This includes the emissions during the construction phase as well as throughout the building’s operational life. The construction phase comprises emissions due to equipment, heavy machinery, ...
How to Assess the Severity of Damage for an Existing Structure? [PDF]
The assessment of the severity of structural damage is based on several criteria such as crack width, differential settlement, and angular rotation of foundation. The extents of damages in a building can be divided into six different categories, namely, negligible, ...
10 Construction Challenges in High-Rise Buildings [PDF]
A high-rise building is a building with a small footprint, small roof area, and immense facades. High-rise buildings have the potential to decongest urban sprawl as they can deal with high-density issues and lack of available land for development. The ...
Is your Building a High-Performance Building? [PDF]
A high-performance building is a building that unifies and optimizes all the major high-performance attributes, including energy conservation, environment, safety, security, durability, accessibility, cost-benefit, productivity, sustainability, functionality, and operational considerations. High performance, here, means designing, constructing, and operating facilities with ...
How to Handle Construction Mistakes at Site? [PDF]
Handling or management of construction activity is crucial to prevent the occurrence of construction mistakes at sites. Smallest precautionary steps can help save gigantic losses. These construction errors can appear due to poor-quality material, poor workmanship, inadequate monitoring, etc. So, ...
How Prefabrication can help build Emergency Buildings? [PDF]
With the outbreak of Covid-19 in many countries, there is an increasing and urging demand for isolation facilities and hospitals. When China built two hospitals, both within 9-10 days, everyone wondered if the same could be done in their country- ...
Autoclaved Aerated Cement Blocks (AAC Blocks)-Properties and Advantages
Autoclaved Aerated Concrete is an eco-friendly and certified green building material which is lightweight, load-bearing, high-insulating, durable building blocks and 3 times lighter when compared to red bricks. AAC was developed in 1924 by a Swedish architect, who was looking ...