Professional and trade skills are required for handling the construction related projects;Construction industries of the present day however lack useful information concerning different practices,patterns and trends i...
Working toward an efficient duration and timeline for the preconstruction phase should be one of the main objectives for project owners.Failing to plan for and coordinate preconstruction decisions in order to control ...
This paper investigates the development and performance of a new higher-order geometric stiffness matrix that more closely approximates the theoretically derived stiffness coefficients.Factors that influence the accur...
The proposed paper deals with a numerical approach that could better assist the archaeologist in the archaeological reconstruction projects.The goal of our research is to explore and study the use of computerized tool...
The increasing cost of infrastructure development risks stifling national investment plans.Many projects in Uganda have suffered because of the frequency and magnitude of claims made by parties involved especially the...
This paper explains how the optimized classrooms were selected and the results that were achieved by the optimizations carried out and finalized.The context of the research is the city of Concepción,in Chile.Virtual ...
Gabions are wire baskets filled with rocks and play a critical role in various civil engineering applications.These include roadside stabilization,riverbank protection,erosion control in gullies,dams,reservoirs,and fo...
In the USA,risk-based decision making has not been a common approach to tunnel safety in the past,but this is changing,as concepts such as“equivalency”in the NFPA 502 framework gain acceptance in the USA and elsewhe...
Within the past decade,advances in medical technology,the desires and complex care needs of an ageing population,and innovative care delivery models have initiated a shift from providing care in hospitals to outpatien...
There are two meanings of the term“soundscape”.One is pragmatic,and means the noise in a public place,that one wants to reduce,in general.The other is wider and theoretical.The approach of the paper follows the care...