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Wooden Skyscrapers Could Transform Construction by Trapping Carbon Emissions
All over the world, architects and engineers are crafting cutting-edge skyscrapers from one of the most renewable and sustainable materials available to humanity — wood. For the time being, the tallest wooden building in the world is the Mjøstårnet, an 18-storey...
Polypropylene Fiber Reinforced Concrete
The capability of durable structure to resist weathering action, chemical attack, abrasion and other degradation processes during its service life with the minimal maintenance is equally important as the capacity of a structure to resist the loads applied on it....
Critical Path Method For Construction: All You need to know
The critical path method (CPM), or critical path analysis (CPA), is an algorithm for scheduling a set of project activities. It is commonly used in conjunction with the program evaluation and review technique (PERT). Read more to know about the Critical Path Method...
Advantages and Disadvantages of Frame Structures
Framing means to give shape and support to a structure by combining components in building. Hence, a framed structure is a structure having the combination of beam, column and slab to resist the gravity and other lateral loads. These structures are generally used to...
Bolted Connections and Advantages of Bolted Connections
Any steel structure is an assemblage of different members such as beam, columns, and tension members, which are fastened or connected to one another, usually at the member ends. Many members in a steel structure may themselves be made of different components such as...
Advantages and Disadvantages of Brick Masonry Over Stone Masonry
Advantages: Since shape and size of bricks are uniform, it do not need skilled labour for the construction. Bricks are light in weight and hence handling them is easy. Bricks are easily available around cities and their transportation cost is less because their weight...