Essays on Construction

The roof is one of the most neglected part of any restaurant building. In fact, it's not just in restaurants, the rooftop has got to be the most neglected part of every building ever. Most restaurant owners and restaurant managers hardly ever inspect a roof's condition, so even when a there's an issue concerning the roof it takes forever to be discovered. Grease is a rooftop’s worst enemy, it's effects can cause thousands of dollars’ worth of damages and cause even more damages if a fire ...

Land availabilityLand availability refers to the impacted delays arising from acquiring lands and its costs for PPP projects. The Land availability factor event would cause construction delay due to the fact that there is no land available on which to a building or project should construct. The construction delay would be likely to further cause the construction cost overrun. The land on which a project will be constructed is not always owned by the project sponsor. Where this is the case, ...

Powder metallurgy can be described as a metal processing technology employed to produce fine metal powders that are blended and then pressed to get the desired shape and followed by sintering process to bond the particles of the metal into a rigid mass. Metallic powders are elemental particles that are usually less than 1000 nm (1 mm) in size. Most of the metal particles used in PM are in the range of 5 to 200 mm. History of powder metallurgy dates back to 1000 AD where the ancient Arabs and ...

Automation in its numerous shapes is a technique that is likely to overtake construction sites worldwide in the near future. While for decades these sites have been observed, controlled, and monitored by human inspectors, this way of doing has often been described as time-consuming and labour-intensive, thus a possible cause for delays (Soltani et al. 2015). The presence of various inspectors throughout construction processes requires precious time as well as a considerable amount of precision ...

The way how constructivism approach was way too focused on how norms, knowledge, culture and ideas work within the society. As what other theorist says, constructivism is basically a social constructed one because the shared beliefs construct the identities of the actors—which are us, the individuals, who are inside and included in this approach. Constructivism does believe that each individual who act upon inside the society were shaped by its environment. In other words, it is all about how ...

Social ontology is a philosophical field that focuses on the properties of the social world, by that we mean all that is evolves through human interaction. Social ontology focuses on the basic structure of society and how that society is formed through human actions and attitudes (Searle, 2006, p.12). By arguing that there is a reality of money, marriages and governments, the question seeks to answer how this is possible. A prominent thinker of social ontology is John Searle, contributing to ...

An estimated 1 billion people live in informal settlements globally. 90% of the 1 billion people are from low and middle income countries. Informal settlements appear in many ways, both physically and socially. The appearance is prerequisite by the local conditions such as; culture, history, politics, topography and the built environment. Challenges that most informal settlements have all over the world tend to be overcrowding, access to sanitation and clean water, poor structural quality of ...

In the industrial environment working with all types of pressure gauges and pumps it’s a most that you keep track of the level inside. One tiny mistake could leave you millions of dollars in debt because of a small crack or hole that appeared in one of the tanks. Even if it takes multiple devices or people checking the tank to make sure it’s good you should do that. So why not have something that’ll monitor the level inside of that plant. Although it is very important to have multiple devices ...

Colloidal processing principles have over the years been used to form ceramic materials that exhibit homogenous properties. Through their application, it has been possible to control microstructure properties of materials. Moreover, the formation of porous ceramics has been achieved through novel techniques. Archaeological pottery artifacts indicate that ceramic components date back to early civilization period. For the last two centuries, however, advances have been made in ceramic component ...

Due to different condition like climatic changes,scarcity of usable land,etc the need for floating structures isarising but before we adapt to the construction of floating structure we need to know its impact on the environment. This paper deals with the study of understanding as to what is floating structures and the different parameters thatare needed to be studied while designing for a floating structure. The main aim is to understand,its scope in the currentscenario, a brief study of ...

As part of “The Home Depot’s” growth strategy analysis, I have looked at an analysis of the industry, competitive strategy and financial health. Industry: The home improvement industry was large and growing at 14% CAGR over the last 15 years $80 billion of total sales recorded in 1985 and strong industry growth was expected to continue As the number of 2-wage-earner households were increasing, the families’ average disposable income was also increasing thereby increasing the frequency and ...

Imagine having to wait thirty minutes to an hour in traffic waiting to get home. Then after all of that having to pay five dollars to get across the bridge. This is what the people who live on Grosse Ile have to deal with for up to three weeks. My family and I are some of the many people who are getting delayed by this closing. Only having one bridge for many people to travel over creates many different problems. The free bridge being closed has caused inconvenience, traffic, and upcharges for ...

As a construction worker, workers need to learn how to handle most of these construction machineries or some other stuffs as well, at least those needful ones for them during the constructing, but if they didn’t use them as they supposed to, so, injuries are almost around to impair them. Bernard (2018) concludes his essay by showing that more than 25,000 instruction site injuries and a huge number of deaths every year referred to stairways and falling of ladders that used on construction ...

Colloidal processing principles have over the years been used to form ceramic materials that exhibit homogenous properties. Through their application, it has been possible to control microstructure properties of materials. Moreover, the formation of porous ceramics has been achieved through novel techniques. Archaeological pottery artifacts indicate that ceramic components date back to early civilization period. For the last two centuries, however, advances have been made in ceramic component ...

Introduction In the construction world, a dozen of activities in different sectors take place which require different procedures to achieve. Each procedure in construction sector requires specialized equipment, gears, machinery and certain level of professionalism. Different construction solutions are delivered differently depending on the nature of the problem or nature of the construction. Most masonry development tasks will definitely expect teams to drill through concrete. Concrete ...