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...

The majority of new homes in England and Wales are built using traditional masonry construction. Traditional masonry construction is the construction method of choice for new homes in England and Wales. This method is ingrained in our national psyche and most people appear to feel...

Introduction Every construction project is unique and has its own operating environment and sets of technical requirements. As a result, the execution of a construction project is subject to numerous constraints that limit the commencement or progression of field operations, which invariably have significant negative...

One of the finest forms of cement which could be purchased in today’s day and age is micro-cement. This material is ideally used for decoration purposes. Micro-cement can be applied to both interior as well as exterior of the building. It is basically a high...

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....

“Although a house is an object, a part of the environment, home is best conceived of as a kind of relationship between people and their environment. It is an emotionally based and meaningful relationship between dwellers and their dwelling places. Concomitant with this distinction is...

Insulating a House in Kodaikanal, India The temperature of the homes in Kodai are usually extremely cold all year for many families. As a result, Kodai residents would keep their homes warm by burning wood in their furnace, polluting the environment everyday. What if the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Going home after having a very strenuous work day, it would not be nice if I did not have a wooden house. Houses made entirely of wood, with natural, rustic materials, both indoors and outdoors, are an unparalleled rest area for human life in 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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...