Essays on Construction Management

After grade eleven, I wanted to become a construction manager mainly because I wanted the heavy responsibility of being able to control and manage sites. My interest in pursuing a career in construction management initially came from a work experience I had at a local...

A new kind of supervised learning approachis proposed to determine the number of occupants in aroom in order to use these estimate for improved energymanagement. It introduces the concept of Parametrizedclassifier. It relies on the predetermined structure ofsupervised learning classifiers, where any classifier couldbe used...

Baton Construction: Installation Of Day Care Center Absences and late arrivals has increased at Baton Construction to over seventy percent over the past five years. In, 2017 there was a total average of ten days per employee that was a result of child related causes....

Today there is a wide variety of roofing in the world of construction, but the way to choose the right one will depend on the variables of the design, such as: wind, rainfall, insolation, location and region of the country where is your property. After...

K.I. Syed Ahmed Kabeer and Ashok Kumar Vyas investigated the performance of cement mortar made with marble powder as fine aggregate. Fine aggregate was replaced with marble powder in steps of 0, 20, 40, 60, 80 and 100%. The characteristic variation in water requirement is...

Literature overview: danger category is described as the logical identification of risk factors in a production challenge at a regular stage and first-class of chance identity manner even as threat management is systematic method of figuring out, analyzing and responding to challenge risk. threat identity:...

Plants are an amazing physical manifestation by nature of the old occult adage ‘as above, so below’. If you were to take an above and below ground photo of a plant or tree and its root system, the roots would appear to be a mirror...

There are limited theatrical building facilities in Cebu that can house a huge number of audience. Opera house is a proscenium theatre in form. Seat check ranges from 1200 to 2,000 with a furthest breaking point of around 2,400 seats. The stage and backstage are...

Lots of people think that improvement is merely taking apart your whole house and building a new one. However, the reality is that even if you make minor modifications to your home or if you simply change an appearance, it will certainly still be a...

Analysis and Control of Production Cost Introduction The cost incurred by the company is the production cost that is a combination of labor, raw materials, and other additional expenses. Costs provide an overview of the total construction expenditure (Jstor, 2015 p. 436). Cost planning techniques...

In the recent years, the construction industry continues to be troubled by the time, budget, and quality constraints. The search for better strategies to improve each aspect has resulted into the proposal of innovative approaches that pursue to combine construction materials and methods to optimum...

Managing risk is fundamental to the successful delivery of construction projects. Construction companies adopt various risk management practices to respond to risks .They evaluate these practices in order to identify lacks and to identify obstacles blocking the successful implementation of a comprehensive risk management process....

The use of concrete for construction has been documented since ancient period. For over a span of 5000 years, the development in using concrete for construction has vastly improved until now the present day. From Egyptian’s use of concrete to build pyramids which is made...

Introduction IOT allows things in the physical world (IOT devices/objects) to interact with the virtual world (cloud services, platforms and applications) through a communication network enabling exchange and sharing of context aware information with each other. So, any IOT system is built from the physical...

Rising damp in masonry walls results in serious issues the buildings, especially for historical buildings. Upward movement of water by capillary action is called rising of damp. It is one of the main problem affecting historical structures all over the world. It creates a problem...

In this paper, the author will investigate Reflectivity in Architectural Visualisation. The author will be focussing on implementing the findings into a 3D environment within Autodesk Maya. The structure of this paper will consist of two main parts; a qualitative and quantitative study. The qualitative...