how to be a successful site engineer?

Site engineer is generally the represents the connection rule between the executed site works and the drawing plans of any project, which means he is the mirror which reflects the drawn plans to executed work on the site with the help of the subcontractor.  If we are talking about site and executed works in the site, so the site engineer should be an experience person either in the structural or electrical or mechanical works he is executing. In this article i am going to talk about structural site engineer.

What is foundation Failure – And Possible Causes?

Foundations are the most important elements for the stability of buildings in general, and that’s not only for the stability of the building structure but also for the stability of its finishing works such as plaster, tiles, furniture etc. There are many reasons that foundations can fail - anything that causes a foundation to move can have a detrimental effect on it. Lateral pressure and differential settlement (when some foundation settles more than others), there are two major categories of foundation failure.

building Stone

When we talk about building sector we should give the stone building a special importance because it is the most popular and oldest cladding material used for external walls  and for some other decorative purposes such as fireplaces frames.

Why you should use waterproofing Paint for Basement and foundations?

The basement is an area of the house that leaking and exposed to water problems. And if you don’t deal with this mater seriously from the beginning you will pay the cost of repairs in the future. So why you don't prevent this from happening? while waterproofing basement paint will not cost more than a few extra money for the waterproofing paint and the worker cost but it would surely for certain that you would not need to deal with more damages and costly maintenance in the future.

How to repair serious segregation in reinforced concrete?

When we work in building projects we absolutely deal with concrete, concrete is a famous construction material which consist mainly from cement, gravel aggregate, water and other chemical additives to a achieve or increase some required properties like workability, but when we cast a densely reinforced concrete elements with reinforcements bars, we might have concrete segregation .

How to manage site excavation successfully?

Site excavation is the first step in which we start the building projects, this step should be managed successfully in order to minimize the cost of it and to reach the required level with the shortest time as possible, so we need to know what are the steps to follow to achieve our purpose in all the circumstances and site conditions of the natural ground.

How to install the reinforcement parts of steel for the beam practically?

To install the reinforcement steel of a beam needs some particular experience how to do that, and the people who needs this kind of experience should be the contractor and the site engineer, so it is not enough to know how to design or draw a reinforcement steel of a beam but also to have the experience how this reinforcement steel (bottom bars, middle bars, top bars, stirrups) will be installed in the beam as shown in the picture bellow.

Reinforcement of a beam

How to estimate the cost of your home?

Cost estimation of your home does not need that much of experience; the first thing you need to know is to read the plans of your construction home. And if don’t know how to read the plans you can get assistance form browsing the web or some help from a specialist engineer, and this will be easy if you have the a basic knowledge of measurement units such as meter, inches and to use the tap measure. And you know how to calculate square meter of an area, cubic meter of a volume this would be quite enough to start your calculations.

The next step is to know the type and cost of material you are going to use in your home project.

Construction and Architecture

The building sector now a day wittiness a rapid growth due to the increased number of population, and the use of modern technology to invent new kinds of building materials with new specifications, and in some cases as a substitute for other materials that has been used or still used but rarely now a days, and many new kinds of equipments to make it easier and faster the the people who work in the field of construction like cranes, excavators, modern methods of formwork etc.