The ongoing pandemic has impacted almost every industry of our capitalist economy, ranging from retail and tourism to finance and automobile. The construction industry isn’t indifferent to these changes and is also suffering badly due to the COVID-19 crisis. Unlike ...
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Outrigger Structural System for High-Rise Building: All You Need to Know: Explained With Video
Outriggers are interior lateral structural systems provided to improve the overturning stiffness and strength of high-rise buildings. It is a lateral load resisting system that is located within the building. The whole system consists of a core structure connected to ...
Fine-Grained Concrete: Significance and Properties: Explained With Video
Fine-grained concrete, also known as sand concrete, is defined as the concrete in which the coarse aggregate is replaced by sand or any filler material. The maximum size of fine aggregates used in fine-grained concrete is 10 mm. Watch Video ...
Artificial Intelligence: Its Potential and Applications in Construction
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the simulation of machines to induce human intelligence, and programming them to mimic human cognitive functions, like problem-solving, pattern recognition, and learning. AI has shown endless possibilities in the construction industry and can help reduce construction ...
Are Smart Contracts the next Big Thing in Construction? [PDF]
The construction industry is infamous for delayed payments and payment-related disputes. The issues could be significantly reduced by taking advantage of blockchain-based smart contracts. It is a system that not only saves cost and time but also increases transparency and ...
Can Blockchain Revolutionize the Construction Sector? [PDF]
The construction industry has generally tended to resist digital transformation that other industrial and business sectors have witnessed in recent years, and the adoption of Blockchain technology can potentially address several problems and bring out a slew of benefits upon ...
How IoT can help the Construction Sector? [PDF]
The ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) is an emerging technology that enables interaction of uniquely identifiable computing devices that can be embedded with other interfaces like machines and humans, linked via wired and wireless networks, to capture contextual data from the ...
7 Shows Civil Engineers Should watch on Amazon’s Prime Video
Civil engineers are not very prolific when asked to work from home. The expertise and skills of civil engineers come into play only when they are at a construction site. If you ask one field whose players are under immense ...