Construction

Emílio Odebrecht & Cia. company which was responsible for the construction of several buildings during the interwar period in the Northeast of Brazil. Scarcity of raw materials drove Emilio out of the construction business but his son ,Norberto Odebrecht, had the entrepreneur gene and followed in his father’s footsteps, in 1941, creating a company that became the origin of the Odebrecht Group. During the period 1946-1952, a number of construction projects was undertaken to establish their name…

Balloon frame buildings were considered almost a universal construction method for multistory wooden buildings until the middle of the 1900’s (Corbett and Brannigan, 2015). This would have not been a problem if they would have been built with some fire resistive methods. One will discuss some of the major issues with this type of construction and some solutions and recommendations to resolve the matter. Balloon frame construction was an inexpensive and easy way to build houses, but that came…

In project management, one of the onerous tasks faced by the project managers or companies is how to estimate the project’s resources i.e. time and schedule. Different types of estimation techniques are used in different projects. Two of them are explained below Bottom up estimation Bottom up estimation, as the name implies entails judging the cost and schedule of a whole project by aggregating the cost and time required by individual deliverables as specified in the work break down structure.…

industrial shed a vernacular shed and utilitarian in design. The shed lacks ornament. The North (primary) façade has a wooden frame with a hand painted signage and resides on a concrete foundation. All the doors have been replaced after their 1953 construction date, thereby compromising integrity…

Case Studies 3. Scope of Work a. In Scope As general contractors for the tenant improvements project, we will provide the personnel and technical expertise towards the construction of the project. Our team shall consist of Project Superintendent, Project Supervisor, Project Manager and Project Administrator. We will also have a coordinator that shall put together the best team of sub-contractors that shall help us with the…

budget especially since cost are not directly accounted for towards a particular task in the budget. There should be a focus on creating a budget in the preconstruction stage but also maintaining that budget and keeping it update even throughout the construction stages. Doing so will allow goals in terms of cost to be met easier. With budgeting it becomes difficult to estimate or predict cost in order to create a budget. Budgeting relies on predicting the cost of task or resources in advance…

wood, especially wooden interior fittings in a house, as moldings, doors, staircases, or windowsills" ("Carpentry Tools"). Also, there are an innumerable amount of tools for carpentry and are needed to perform carpentry at its best whether in the construction of furniture, building, decorative or other objects. Although, specific crafts and wood work can be made easy if carried out with woodworking or carpentry tools. Carpentry tools can be divided into carious groups for the various amount of…

certain things that should be endowed to any human being. And two of those things are access to clean drinking water and a place to lay their loved ones to rest. Native people have been protesting the construction of the North Dakota access pipeline for months now, with no end in site. The construction of this pipeline threatens not just native peoples water supply but the water supply of millions of Americans as well. However, native people have been baring the burden for us. This story has…

Washington DC: 11th Street [The Need] Bridges are no different than any other form of infrastructure, eventually they break down and need to be either repaired or replaced. Inspection occurs at least every two years, yet bridges are often pushed to their absolute limits of usability. In Washington DC, the 11th Street Bridge Project aims to replace two bridges built in the 1960s with three new bridges. With these bridges having been in place for nearly 50 years, there were numerous issues. For…

building is the Ingalls Building, built in 1903 in Cincinnati, Ohio. All the key developments in reinforced concrete buildings in that time have contributed in the design and construction of Ingalls Building. Richard W. Steiger defined the Ingalls Building, ‘These developments included heavy monolithic beam-and-slab construction with tension reinforcing, two-way reinforcing systems, and bent bars and stirrups. Also used were hoops and continuous helixes for compression members.’ Concrete was…