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REINFORCEMENT COVER AND PRE-CONCRETE CHECKS

The Constructor

The required amount of cover will always be specified on the design drawings, but no time should the cover be less than the maximum size of aggregate plus 5mm. The second part is carried out by a surveyor, who will check the steel levels against the required levels from the design drawings.

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Airport security and BIM

DebunkTheBIM

Don’t wish to list all the airport-jokes that come to mind, have visited the US enough to put me off that reckless habit, for the foreseeable future. Well, time to learn something from airport security. I spent the day flying again.

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FORMWORK AND GOOD FORMWORK PROPERTIES

The Constructor

For anything other than most smallest of concreting jobs e.g. walls over 1m in height, a drawing should be provided, showing what formwork is required. This need not be an intricate design drawing, a simple sketch is usually sufficient. The below picture shows part of a concrete structure soon after the formwork has been struck.

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COMMON STRUCTURAL FAILURE CAUSES

The Constructor

8) inadequate preparation and review of contract and shop drawings. (9) Other common causes of structural failure are: (5) lack of appropriate professional design and construction experience, especially when novel structures are needed. (6) 6) complexity of codes and specifications leading to misinterpretation and misapplication. (7)

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Free Interior Design Softwares

The Constructor

The work of an interior designer draws upon many disciplines including environmental psychology, architecture, product design, and traditional decoration (aesthetics and cosmetics). Can you please give the detail drawings showing the arrangements of consecutive layers of bricks? What will be the total thicknesses of the walls?This

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What’s new in Advance Steel 2019

BIM & Beam

If your 3D model contains grid lines on distinct levels, you have the ability to display these grid lines on the elevation views of your drawing. For that, you need to activate the default “Display horizontal grid line in details” option which is available in the Management Tools, before creating the view on the drawing.

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Difference and sameness: The two sides of the marketing coin

Construction Marketing Ideas

But it reminds us of the power of listening, learning, and experiencing before we draw conclusions. It is an interesting place to be: The Air France business class lounge at Montreal airport, as we prepare for a flight to Paris and then to […]. This video by Simon Sinek only indirectly correlates to the observations below.