Essays on Construction

A Design is a human creativity in order to achieve useful functions that help to harmonise the difficulties of life in order to make the human life easier. However, the engineering design is linked to specific criteria and may be covered by failure or success....

The construction of biomimetic cellular structures is a quickly growing area in scientific research. This rapid growth comes from the variety of purposes of cell mimics and from the potential applications that can be offered. It provides the opportunity to understand and investigate the biochemical...

El Lissitzky, a Russian born avant-garde designer, painter, and artist, led the avant-garde’s movement from art to construction through his Prouns. Lissitzky started making his Prouns in 1919 which infused flat geometric forms of Suprematism with a sense of virtual architectural space. Lissitzky uses axonometric...

Walls are a source of praise and admiration. Your wall defines and portrays the kind of person you are. Whenever guests arrive at your place, your first impression on the visitors is highly dependent on the way you have decorated your wall. A bland wall...

Video creation is a favored industry. It’s a huge amount of amusing to make video content, and the general hotness of the space draws in many individuals into the business. Nowadays, the capacity to make quality video content is winding up increasingly commoditized. So making...

In my opinion I feel both the commercial industries should be responsible and alter what they put in product to keep us Healthy and we as consumers of the product should be more alert to the items we are purchasing. As a child my grandmother...

Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) is a store that we are all familiar with today. Bed Bath & Beyond started out with a bang in 1971 and has continues to expand since then. Recently, BBBY has had some serious competition especially in the e-commerce platform....

INTRODUCTION In olden some humans are naturally able to climb the trees without the help of any equipment because the foot is like the monkey foot. And then the rope is used to climb the tree. But not all the humans have the ability to...

Abstract This project is about the design and construction of a concentrated solar furnace. The basic aim of the report is to provide information about the design and working principles of a solar furnace. The project utilized a parabolic concentrator and we designed the furnace...

This article is of much importance to the people who are associated with manufacturing and designing fields, but other businesses can also make use of the following information. The main aim of any business is to ensure the clients are satisfied with the work they...

Offshore Engineering is that branch of Engineering that deals with the designing and construction of the structures amidst the oceans. These structures are to be in stationary position and must be able to resist the extreme weather conditions in an Ocean Environment. The atmosphere that...

Concrete (Links to an external site) is a material that is widely used in various building structures making it a very important in construction industry. It is inexpensive and strong. It is easy to make, it is made by using all natural ingredients and because...

The paper being critiqued by Purwaningrum and Muraki is about redesigning elementary school chairs for easy carrying and moving after observing them. They stated that chairs that can easily be moved are essential when changing classroom settings. It would encourage children to be engaged in...

There has always been a need to become a digital enterprise in the manufacturing sector as we need to take a step towards Industry 4.0 and secure the competitiveness with scalable solutions. Same is the case in that of Siemens and rather, this is the...

Rubber There are two reasons behind this being low first one is most of the tyre firms get 150 days credit for buying the rubber from international market which is not the case if they buy it from domestic growers. And the second reason is...

Equipment needed: Drum mixer Grinder Aluminum straight edge Trowel Plumb Spirit level Wheel barrow Hand shovel Water tank Right Angel Elastic hammer Material Delivery, Storage and Handling: Only materials that approved will be utilized as a part of execution of tiling works. Handling, delivery and...

Spanning Tree Protocol, also known as STP, was produced in order to obtain a methodology where bridges can obtain layer 2 routing with redundant and loop-free operation. Spanning tree protocol is defined as a protocol where two bridges interconnect two computer network segments and allow...

The Golden Gate Bridge, one of northern California’s main attractions, is said to see about 110,000 people a day. The 8,981 ft. suspension bridge was originally named after the “Golden Gate” strait, which is the body of water that sits below the bridge. What the...

The costing method that is commonly practiced by construction industry is contract costing. Contract costing is a technique that is used to track the cost of a specific contract with a specific customer. When two parties enter into a contract, for example, a construction company...

Earthquake-proof Buildings After the massive earthquake near Japan one wonders if it’s possible to build an earthquake-proof building? The answer is yes and no. There are of course, engineering techniques that can be used to create a very sound structure that will endure a modest...

The Thai–Burma railway which also called the Death Railway. The Thailand-Burma Railway and the Burma-Siam Railway and the similar names, was a 415-kilometre railway connecting Ban Pong, Thanbyuzayat and Thailand, Burma, create by the Empire of Japan in 1943 to sustain its influence in the...

Super-austenitic stainless steels are special grades of austenitic stainless steels alloyed with higher concentrations of chromium and nickel in addition to the presence of relatively higher contents of nitrogen, molybdenum, and copper. Due to its excellent combination of alloying elements, these steels often possess superior...

Structure and Levels of the Profession of the Engineer (Civil Contracting Engineer) There are two major branches of Civil Engineering, Contracting and Consultant engineering. Engineers who specialize in construction will often work as project managers. They are responsible for the time management of the project...

Ceramic capacitor These capacitors are used in everyday products ranging from audio to RF. Their values range from a few picofarads to around 0.1 microfarads. These act as a dielectric and have a fixed value always. It is built of two or more alternating layers...

Reduction solutions as a companies approach toimproving sustainability as well as other CSR indicators As stated by the American Transportation Research Institute, «the total tonnage of primary freight shipments in the US will increase from 15.55 bl. tons in 2006 to 19.85 bl. tons in...

There is often a very close relationship between a building and the body that occupies it. I picked the Therme Vals designed by Peter Zumthor to analyze this concept and took into consideration the views of architects Vetruvius and Le Corbusier. Therme Vals, located in...

The load capacity of foundations can be defined differently depending on the settlement criterion that is employed to specify the failure or the ultimate state of foundations. For given settlement of piled rafts, the mobilization of load capacity differs for the raft and piles, due...

“Architecture should speak of its time and place but yearn for timelessness”. (Frank Ghery) One of the most interesting treatise of Christopher Alexander is “The Timeless way of Building” that was first published in 1979. The author of the book Christopher Alexander himself is an...

A static shape that extends above a take-off climb floor within three km of the inner edge of the take-off climb side have to be marked. Tall homes or towers have to be marked with low, medium or excessive intensity obstruction lighting. Obstacle lighting and...

This Novel by Michael Kimmel, Guyland, is solely about the life experiences of men roughly through the ages of 16 and 25. A handful of these young men where interviewed to see the way the handle the big transition into manhood. The transition to manhood...