PERT (Program Evaluation & Review Technique) and Gantt charts are used in project management to represent the activities or tasks in a project from start to end. They allow us to visualize the workflow and the project plan. The main ...
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Intelligent Compaction [PDF]: Benefits and Limitations
Intelligent compaction is the compaction of road materials, such as the layers of soils, aggregate bases, or asphalt pavement materials, using advanced vibratory rollers armed with a unified measurement system, a computer reporting system, GPS-based mapping, and Optional Feedback Control ...
Preliminary Works in Construction [PDF]
Preliminary works refer to all the activities that are involved in a construction site before the actual work commences, such as demolition, site clearance, site survey, soil survey, planning, designing, and cost estimation. In this article, we briefly discuss all ...
Nanotechnology for Sustainable Construction [PDF]
The application of nanotechnology in various building products and materials showed tremendous progress in the construction industry. As nanotechnology is a science that controls the dimensions in the transition zone at the atomic level, the products developed from this method gain extraordinary ...
Agile Concept in Construction Sector [PDF]
Agile concepts and methodologies have originated and evolved from the software and manufacturing industry. They, now, have finally penetrated the domain of construction. The industry that relies on the waterfall method (orderly and systematic approach) for the execution of projects ...
Standard Deviation for Compressive Strength of Concrete with Example [PDF]
Standard deviation for concrete is the method to determine the reliability between the compressive strength results of a concrete batch. The standard deviation serves as the basis for control of variability in the test results of concrete for the same ...
Top 7 Sustainability Issues with Construction Industry [PDF]
The construction industry is one of the largest consumers of natural resources. It primarily uses 60 percent of the world’s natural resources directly or indirectly as construction materials for developing buildings and infrastructure. The issues that develop after having these ...
Earthquake-Resistant Confined Masonry – Components, Difference, and Advantages
Confined masonry construction is a combination of two masonry, which consists of masonry walls (clay brick or concrete block units) and horizontal and vertical RC confining members built on all four sides of a masonry wall panel. Vertical members such ...