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The Big Ben Clock Tower is the British cultural icon and was renamed “Elizabeth Tower” in 2012 to celebrate the diamond jubilee of Queen...

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In Shanghai’s eastern Huangpu district, a five-story primary school building, weighing 7600 tons, was relocated to a new location to make space...

The construction industry makes a profit or loss based on the visibility of the works performed on the job site. In this sense, one should have the...

The doubly reinforced concrete beam design may be required when a beam’s cross-section is limited because of architectural or other considerations....

Researchers have demonstrated that they can attract, capture and destroy PFAS - a group of federally regulated substances found in everything from nonstick coatings to shampoo and nicknamed 'the forever chemicals' due to their persistence in the natural environment.

The Acropolis of Athens is the most striking and complete ancient Greek monumental complex extant in our times. It is an architectural treasure that...

Engineers from Purdue University, Indiana, have developed a white paint that can keep surfaces up to 18°F cooler than their ambient surroundings. The...

Document control in construction projects encompasses the creation, management, modification, issuance, and accessibility of innumerable construction...

A partition wall is a thin wall that is constructed to divide an enclosed space. It is usually constructed as a non-load bearing wall that...

The Burj Khalifa is the world’s tallest structure with a height of 828 m and has a total of 163 floors. Famous as a mixed-use development tower...

The need for a rail-based public transport system for the city of Delhi had been on the cards for a long time. However, the plans materialized in the...

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Structural damage to any of the nation's ailing bridges can come with a hefty price of billions of dollars in repairs. New bridge designs promise more damage-resistant structures and, consequently, lower restoration costs. But if these designs haven't been implemented in the real world, predicting how they can be damaged and what repair strategies should be implemented remain unresolved.

In today’s age of rapid technological development, it is challenging to keep up with the latest trends as technologies are being replaced with new...

Modulus of subgrade reaction or coefficient of subgrade reaction is the reaction pressure sustained by the soil sample under a rigid plate of...

Light-emitting cement is a green construction material designed to illuminate highways, roads, and bicycle lanes without using electricity....

If you plan on buying an old house in a geographical area with a known propensity for differential foundation movements, then it is always wise to...

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Transportation of overweight and over-dimensional consignments weighing more than several hundred tons is a big challenge for heavy-duty freight...

A multidisciplinary group that studies the physical and chemical properties of insect wings has demonstrated the ability to reproduce the nanostructures that help cicada wings repel water and prevent bacteria from establishing on the surface. The new technique - which uses commercial nail polish - is economical and straightforward, and the researchers said it will help fabricate future high-tech waterproof materials.

Innovators are taking cues from nature to develop 3D photodetectors for biomedical imaging. The researchers used some architectural features from spider webs to develop the technology.

A theodolite is an instrument used to determine the relative position of points on the earth’s surface by measuring the horizontal and vertical...

Wood is considered an attractive construction material for both aesthetic and environmental purposes. Construction of useful wood objects requires complicated structures and ways to connect components together. Researchers created a novel 3D design application to hugely simplify the design process and also provide milling machine instructions to efficiently produce the designed components. The designs do not require nails or glue, meaning items made with this system can be easily assembled, disassembled, reused, repaired or recycled.

Getting run over by a car is not a near-death experience for the diabolical ironclad beetle. How the beetle survives could inspire the development of new materials with the same herculean toughness, engineers show.

Works have begun on the much-awaited Fehmarnbelt Tunnel, connecting Denmark and Germany. The 18 km long tunnel will descend to a depth of up to 40 m...

The reuse of existing piles is an efficient way to reduce pile input-resources, construction costs, and the overall environmental impact by...

A new 3D-printed structural concrete footbridge is set to be developed in Plaine Commune Grand Paris. The footbridge is part of the development in...

Adjusting the slump of concrete is a part of the concreting process, which the contractors should manage properly and cautiously. The concrete slump...

The major problems that one encounters when pumping concrete are blockage of pipeline, and segregation and bleeding of concrete mix. Blockage is the...

The Channel Tunnel, also known as Eurotunnel or Chunnel, is the world’s longest underwater railway tunnel built to connect the United...

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The roof of a structure is susceptible to several defects during its course of life, but the identification of such issues is not an easy task for...

Fine-grained concrete, also known as sand concrete, is defined as the concrete in which the coarse aggregate is replaced by sand or any filler...

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The world’s first footbridge made from 3D-printed structural concrete is set to be developed in Plaine Commune Grand Paris. The footbridge is...

Adjusting the slump of concrete is a part of the concreting process, which the contractors should manage properly and cautiously. The concrete slump...

An as-built drawing is defined as a drawing created and submitted by a contractor after completing the project. Due to some specific inevitable...

Engineers have demonstrated improvements in the fatigue life of high strength aluminum alloys by 25 times -- a significant outcome for the transport manufacturing industry.

Telematics combines telecommunications and informatics and is commonly used to monitor assets such as vehicles and heavy equipment, by using GPS and...

Tuckpointing is a mortar joint repair process in masonry construction, which involves the removal of deteriorated mortar joints from the masonry...

The eventual creation of replacement biological parts requires fully three-dimensional capabilities that two-dimensional and three-dimensional thin-film bioprinting cannot supply. Now, using a yield stress gel, engineers can place tiny aggregates of cells exactly where they want to build the complex shapes that will be necessary to replace bone, cartilage and other tissues.

Autonomous vehicles (AV) are the wave of the future in the automobile industry, and there's extensive discussion about the impacts on transportation, society, the economy and the environment. However, less attention has been focused on the potential health impacts of self-driving vehicles.

Hi. I am an architect and I’d like to hear your advise. Can this type of brick bond be used for a load bearing wall? I think that this zigzag...

Researchers demonstrate a novel physical phenomenon by controlling variations of the atomic structure.

A mouthpiece is a short length of pipe or tube attached to the tank or vessel, used to determine the rate of flow of fluid. It is an extended form of...

Hardness of a material is defined as its resistance to indentation. Rockwell hardness test measures the permanent depth of indentation on a metal by...

The calculation of the load-carrying capacity of under-designed or deteriorated beams is the first step before conducting any repair or...

The hardness of a material is defined as the resistance of that material to an indentation or plastic deformation. Hardness is hence a measure of the...

The transfer of loads from a slab to beams is controlled by the slab’s geometrical dimension and the direction of reinforcements. The load of...

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Rooftop swimming pools are pools constructed over roof slabs either due to space constraints on the ground floor or to enhance the aesthetics of the...

A foundation is a structural element that provides support for various loads acting on the superstructure. It is the link between the structure and...

Every player in the construction sector, in one way or the other, is a part of the overall supply chain. The project designer, materials supplier,...

The construction industry is rapidly evolving with the influence of cloud and mobile technology. As the risks associated with the work in the...

A ramp is a sloped pathway used to provide access between two vertical levels. It facilitates the movement of wheelchairs, bicycles, and other...

Closed cavity façade (CCF) is an intelligent, completely enclosed double-skin façade that is triple glazed internally and single glazed externally...

The occurrence of excessive dampness in buildings, especially those of concrete and masonry, is widespread and reflects upon the quality of building...

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