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Behaviour Of Reinforced Concrete Beams With Coconut Shell As Coarse Aggregates

The high cost of conventional building materials is a major factor affecting housing delivery in world. This has necessitated research into alternative materials of construction. The project paper aims at analyzing flexural and compressive strength characteristics of concrete produced using crushed, granular coconut as substitutes for conventional coarse aggregate with

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Unravelling Carbon Uptake In Concrete Pavements

MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub research finds natural carbon uptake in concrete could offset 5 percent of US pavement cement production emissions. Just along concrete’s gray surface, a chemical reaction is occurring. Known as carbonation, this reaction forms calcium carbonate, a benign chalk-like material, but it can also affect climate change. That’s because

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Nigerian Builds House With 14,800 Plastic Bottles

A Nigerian has built a house in Kaduna using 14,800 sand-filled plastic bottles as bricks. Yahaya Ahmed, an engineer and the director of a non-governmental organisation, Developmental Association of Renewable Energies in Nigeria (DARE), said the house was built by his organisation to encourage recycling of waste materials, create jobs and

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History Of Concrete

The history of concrete is a fundamental and intrinsic aspect of the history of civilization. Since time immemorial, channeling creativity, scientific knowledge and grit – man has created structures to suit his personal and societal needs. Natural cement was first made when the earth first started going through intense geological

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Construction Management

Construction Management and the role of Construction Manager covers the design and science of buildings along with the management of business, people, money and time. What is Construction Management? The concept of ‘Construction Management’ is relatively recent. It first appeared in the 1960s when a group of Florida Universities formed the Associated

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Concrete Floors

Concrete floors have been used for commercial applications for decades; lots of modern houses and companies are going for Concrete floors. Most of those stunning, polished, and robust floors are finished concrete in department stores (to give one example). Recently, concrete has become popular as an alternative for residential flooring, because

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SuperAdobe

SuperAdobe is a form of earth bag architecture developed by architect and CalEarth founder Nader Khalili. Using long sandbags ("SuperAdobe Bags"), barbed wire, on-site earth and a few tools, Khalili devised a revolutionary building system that integrates traditional earth architecture with contemporary global safety requirements, and passes severe earthquake code

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Concrete – Types & Applications

It is common knowledge that concrete is one of the, if not the most, important ingredients in the process of construction. But did you know that there has never been one particular type of concrete? Depending on the constituent material, mix design, area of application and the method of construction,

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Cement Plaster

The task of plastering your home might seem like an unnecessary step, in an already lengthy process of getting a home ready. However, it’s needed to be done because it helps to provide the perfect finish for your wall. Cement plastering your home hides all cragged and uneven surfaces of

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