Ingredients for concrete are cement‚ fine aggregate‚ coarse aggregate and water. The best concrete can be obtained by mixing the ingredients in correct proportions. The ideal proportion of concrete will be that‚ which produces greatest strength and solidity at the least cost. In estimating the quantities of ingredients for cement concrete it should keep in mind that voids of coarse aggregates are filled up by sand and voids of fine aggregates are filled up by cement. The concrete mix of 1: 1: 2 and
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THE GLOBE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY The Globe Construction Company top management held a management workshop one weekend in April of 1989 for the purpose of discussing present policies and procedures with the ultimate objective of formalizing these in a new company operations manual. The company was established in the mid-50s by Mr. Eduardo Concepcion. The company grew at a very fast rate due to the construction boom in the government sector during the administration of ex-President Ferdinand E. Marcos
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CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT 4 MANAGE THE PLANNING OF WORK METHODS‚ RESOURCES & SYSTEMS TO MEET CONTRACT REQUIREMENTS MANAGE THE PLANNING OF WORK METHODS‚ RESOURCES & SYSTEMS TO MEET CONTRACT REQUIREMENTS Objective1 Manage the evaluation & selection of construction methods Objective 2 Manage the planning of work activities & resources to meet contract requirements Objective 3 Manage the selection & formation of contract team Objective 4 Manage the operations of organisation & communication system
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II. Statement of the Problem • State the problems facing the manager/key person The manager Joe of Project Scheduling at Blanque Cheque Construction (B) is facing late competition of his first project due to schedule slipping and unforeseen circumstances and it can be damaging to his career due to serious consequences and other penalties. • Identify and link the symptoms and root causes of the problems. Upon analyzing this case I identify the warning sign of schedule slipping. The manager
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codes and safety purpose. Building codes act an important role in construction and design phase. In the past‚ most building codes and standards have used prescriptive (or compliance) criteria. In recent years‚ there has been strong interest worldwide in developing codes and standards that are more performance based ( Foliente‚ 2000). The purpose of building codes are to increase safety in the design of the project and its construction. For example‚ according to the 2010 California Building Code‚ the
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resistance to be reduced‚ knowing that the lower the skid resistance value‚ the higher the percentage of the traffic accidents especially during the winter season. The following report presents a project carried out in the Highway materials and Construction course taken at AUB for a better understanding of the effect polishing and wet conditions have on skid resistance. A concise literature review on skid-resistance‚ polishing causes and polishing experimentation is conducted followed by a detection
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Abstract We have to complete an assignment for our Construction Technology about green building. Our lecturer‚ IR Han had also held an visit programme to one of the green building that located at Putrajaya which is Diamond Building to help us in obtaining more information for this assignment. Our assignment had inserted these information that we obtained from the visit to Diamond Building and also some other green buildings around the world. In the introduction part we can see that green
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Mussel Shells‚ Crab carapace and PVC as an alternate aggregate and filler in concrete making Research Outline I. Problem and its background (chapter 1) A. Introduction 1. Concrete Fillers and Aggregates a. Composition of Aggregates b. Different Kinds of Filler 2. Mussel shells‚ Crab carapace and PVC as alternative aggregates and fillers a. Similarities of Mussel shells‚ Crab carapace and PVC’s to other aggregates and fillers b. Advantages and disadvantages of using
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Shamsad Ahmad‚ Abul Kalam Azad‚ and Mohammed Abdul Hameed A STUDY OF SELF-COMPACTING CONCRETE MADE WITH MARGINAL AGGREGATES Shamsad Ahmad∗‚ Abul Kalam Azad‚ and Mohammed Abdul Hameed Department of Civil Engineering King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals Dhahran‚ Saudi Arabia 1. INTRODUCTION Self-compacting concrete (SCC)‚ developed first in Japan in the late 1980s‚ represents one of the most significant advances in concrete technology in the last two decades. SCC was developed to ensure
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Principles of Microeconomics. United States of America: The Dryden Press. Marginal Cost. (n.d.). Retrieved October 20‚ 2009‚ from moneyterms.co.uk: http://moneyterms.co.uk/marginal-cost/ Marginal Value Product Martin‚ S. a. (1996). The concrete aggregates industry in Region IV-A (Mainland). Quezon City: Mines and Geosciences Bureau. Microsoft Corporation. (2008). Microsoft Encarta. microsoft.com/en-us/library. (n.d.). Retrieved September 15‚ 2009‚ from microsoft.com: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms915532
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