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Bored Cast In Situ Concrete Piles: A Step By Step Construction Process

30/09/2019 By Liton Biswas Leave a Comment

Construction process of a bored cast in situ concrete piles

Updated November 4th, 2019Based on the construction method, piles can be either cast in situ or precast driven. In this post, I’m going to share a step by step process of constructing bored cast in situ concrete piles. What Are Bored Cast In Situ Concrete Piles? Piles are basically columns built underground. When the top […]

Filed Under: Construction Process Tagged With: substructure

How To Set Out A New Building On The Ground For Construction

16/09/2019 By Liton Biswas 6 Comments

How To Set Out A New Building On The Ground For Construction?

The first step to construct a new building is setting out the layout of the building on the ground. In this post, I’ll show you how to set out a building on a plot to start the construction. Simply saying, setting out of a building is just to take the building from a piece of […]

Filed Under: Construction Process Tagged With: Construction Tutorial

5 Defects In Concrete You Can Eliminate With Proper Inspection

09/09/2019 By Liton Biswas Leave a Comment

How to eliminate defects in concrete with proper inspection

Nowadays most of the buildings are RCC framed structure. And concrete is the backbone of RCC framed structure buildings. But defects in concrete make a building unusable or unsafe to use. See the image below: That is a crack in the roof slab through which water penetrates. It made the room unusable for dwellers. There […]

Filed Under: Concrete Technology, Construction Process Tagged With: Quality Management

Ebook: Concrete Inspection Guidelines

19/08/2019 By Liton Biswas 1 Comment

The Ebook: Concrete Inspection Guidelines

Updated August 23rd, 2019Get the Ebook “Concrete Inspection Guidelines” completely free before 23rd Aug 2019. My readers often ask me to write books on building construction. Some of them even asked to package all the stuff in this blog as a book. But that wouldn’t serve any purpose. So, I decided to write books which […]

Filed Under: Concrete Technology, Construction Process Tagged With: supervision

How To Calculate The Cutting Length Of Stirrups In Columns

12/08/2019 By Liton Biswas 2 Comments

How To Calculate The Cutting Length Of Stirrups?

Updated November 20th, 2019When it comes to the length of a stirrup bar, you’ll find two types of length. One is the ACTUAL LENGTH of a stirrup bar and another is the CUTTING LENGTH. Cutting length is always smaller than the actual length. When you go to make stirrups, you’ll need to cut bars based […]

Filed Under: Construction Process Tagged With: Column, Reinforcement

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