Grade beam is a part of a substructure of a building. It is normally built with reinforced cement concrete. A grade beam connects two or more short columns. Grade beam can be directly built on ground or above the ground. Grade beam sometimes support the ground floor slab and sometimes don’t. It will be shown […]
What Should Be Standard Size of Rooms in Residential Building?
I’ve been asked this question many times by my relatives as well as by my clients. That is, what should be the standard room size for a residential building? In this post I’ll answer this question from my experience which I gained from last 14 years of time working with several architects and clients. Before knowing standard […]
Types of Floor
Before knowing about the different types of floor, let’s first see what is floor? Floor is always define as a different level of a building. In another word, In multi-story building, we divided the height of a building by a horizontal structure to make this a useable space at different level. This horizontal structure is […]
Types of Buildings
“All buildings are structure but all structures aren’t building.” Types of buildings can vary depending on locations. In many countries, they have their own category to determine the types of buildings. Here we’ll see the types of buildings based on international building code. Before describing the types of buildings first we should know “what is building?” Building can be described as “a […]
Components of Sub-Structure of a Building, bct4
We have considered “Sub-structure” as 3rd work phase of building construction in our tutorial series. We left a work-phase that is Ground Work. Because we discussed about that topic several times here in this blog. You can read them in following links – 6 ground works to Prepare a Land for Building Construction.7 Preliminary Works […]
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