Essays on Construction Management

All the major construction projects have special equipments that are designed to increase the overall proficiency and thereby improve the output. One of them is the mortar mixing machines. These are of two kinds, the boom and line equipments. These machines are indispensable to the...

‘The design and construction of a building has for long been seen as a one-off enterprise in which a blend of art, human experience and craft produces a unique structure. ’ In this sense, automation in a natural progression, beyond the positive financial results and...

Construction industry has always play a significant role to the development of the country. Infrastructure like roads, bridges and railways help in increasing the efficiency for transporting goods and materials used for construction. Infrastructure also has help in reducing the gap in information and communication...

The current Construction Industries in the Philippines are hesitant to embrace changes in the traditional way of execution of projects. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) gave light to a new variable to reconsider in the realization of project. The Quenched and Tempered Steel...

Due to the nature of the industry, construction inevitably incurs many casualties through various means. Having specific health and safety co-ordinators is not necessarily the only means in attempting to keep incidents low. Everybody within the construction industry must ensure they play their part by...

The construction of Arkansas Nuclear One (ANO) in 1974 brought about a new age of employment opportunity and population growth in the River Valley area. However, in its 44 years of operation, the plant has had several mishaps that culminated in a column 4 ranking...

This journal is about the assessment of bridge decks that are being torn apart brick by brick due to the vehicles, storms, heat, and even the wind colliding to it. This gave them the idea of automated crack detection on concrete bridges, to repair and...