Green walls are systems in which plants grow on a vertical surface over the building facade. Types, benefits and features of green walls are discussed.
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Fire Safety and Property Protection Systems for Buildings
Fire safety and property protection systems for buildings requires knowledge and understanding of hazards to decrease the potential fire occurrence and its risk to life and property during fire.
What is Facade Retention in Building Construction and its Advantages?
Facade retention is a method of building rehabilitation to bring changes to interior of the building structure. Advantages of facade retention in building construction is discussed.
Building Construction with Plastic Bottles- Walls, Roofs and Benefits
Building construction with plastic bottles are low-cost and eco-friendly. Construction of plastic bottle walls, roofs and their benefits in buildings is discussed.
Field Testing of Building Lime for Quality in Construction Works
Different types of field tests on building lime to check quality of lime to be used in mortar mix for construction works and their procedures is discussed.
Cast Iron as a Building Material- Manufacturing, Types, Properties and Applications
What is Cast Iron? Cast iron is obtained from the pig-iron which is re-melted with coke and limestone. Pig iron is nothing but impure iron which is obtained from the iron ore. Cast iron has lot of engineering properties so, ...
Grading of Bitumen- Different Methods of Bitumen Grading
There are different methods of grading of bitumen such as chewing, penetration grading, viscosity grading and superpave performance grading of bitumen which are discussed in this article.
Viscosity of Bituminous Materials – Measurements and Factors
Introduction to Viscosity and Rheology of Bituminous Materials The resistance of a liquid in flowing is defined as the viscosity of that fluid. Under the action of force, the fluid reflects higher resistance when the viscosity is high. The two ...