In the past five years, the modular construction industry has experienced a huge surge of growth, doubling to more than $8 billion in revenue. While this kind of construction currently represents a small subset of the $1 trillion construction industry, a U.S. Chamber of Commerce report found that 67 percent of
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No matter how perfectly you set up your business, two things will rise up and create headaches every now and then: the economy and your people. The economy is the economy. You have no control over the volume and quality of construction opportunities that are available at any point in time.
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Every construction project has a perfect set of machinery to get the job done. Getting the right equipment for each project helps with efficiency, safety and build quality. Because of this, it’s essential to be on the same page with your team when it comes to choosing equipment. Some machines
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Developers and demolition experts look at several factors when deciding how to demolish a building. Among other concerns, they consider the area where the building is located, the primary building materials, the purpose of the demolition, and how to dispose of the debris. Demolition methods can range from one devastating
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Foundation design is the creation of a construction plan for a building foundation. It is a highly specialized function and usually performed by a structural engineer. The foundation is the structural base that stands on the ground and supports the rest of the building. Therefore, foundation design must involve extensive
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Project management is the basis on which every construction project is founded. A construction project manager has to obtain a variety of skills and competences in order to navigate through the project and to establish a functional connection with the numerous teams. Construction projects have a continuous need for alterations
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The Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande, on Sunday disclosed that the Federal Government’s plan to build 300,000 affordable houses for Nigerians will start this week. The houses will be built under the Social Housing element of the government’s Economic Sustainability Plan. In a statement
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Being able to identify the various types of walls on a structural plan is an essential skill, but it’s also important to know what makes each type of wall unique. What is a shear wall? While columns and load-bearing walls keep buildings standing up, carrying the compression load of the structure down
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Overview The bituminous mix design aims to determine the proportion of bitumen, filler, fine aggregates, and coarse aggregates to produce a mix which is workable, strong, durable and economical. The requirements of the mix design and the two major stages of the mix design, i.e dry mix design and wet mix
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Silica fume is a byproduct of producing silicon metal or ferrosilicon alloys. One of the most beneficial uses for silica fume is in concrete. Because of its chemical and physical properties, it is a very reactive pozzolan. Concrete containing silica fume can have very high strength and can be very
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