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.

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 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

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.