Code of practice for safe use of explosives in the construction industry

Purpose In the Ghanaian construction industry (GCI), the option for stakeholders to adopt formwork design as a building construction requirement is uncommon place. This is due to the low level of awareness and practice of formwork design. As a result of this, there have been formwork accidents, cost and time overruns in construction. This paper aims to solicit the view of stakeholders on the awareness of formwork design practices in the GCI. Design/methodology/approach This paper adopted the interpretivism research philosophy and inductive reasoning. Through a semi-structured interview guide, data was collected. The data (interview) recorded was transcribed using the Amberscript web application. This study used thematic analysis in analyzing the data collected using Nvivo 10 software. Findings The data collected from the 22 professionals indicated that the respondents were unaware of the concept of formwork design and its practice, neither could they speak to the existence of any specific regulation nor code of practice. However, the respondents established that there was a need to design formwork and stated some benefits of it. Originality/value From the literature, little research has been done on formwork design and its context in the GCI is yet to be explored. This research attempts to fill this gap. The findings indicate that to practice formwork design, there must be education and training of human resources for formwork design, there must be a code of practice to guide the design process and legal backing through policies and regulations to mandate the design.

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Study of Quality Living Environment for Temporary Construction Workers' Accommodation in Malaysia

International Journal of Environment, Architecture, and Societies ◽

10.26418/ijeas.2021.1.02.64-72 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 (02) ◽

pp. 64-72

Author(s):

Hazwan Bin Zubir ◽

Asiah Abdul Rahim

Keyword(s):

Construction Industry ◽

Descriptive Analysis ◽

Combine Method ◽

Living Environment ◽

Construction Workers ◽

Poor Condition ◽

Code Of Practice ◽

Quality Of Living ◽

Research Findings

This research is to study the quality of living environment in workers’ accommodation for construction workers in Malaysia. In Malaysia, workers’ accommodation known as rumah kongsi. The research aim to identify appropriate and quality of living environment for construction workers. Majority the construction workers accommodation in Malaysia are currently in a poor condition. The poor condition of accommodation for construction workers have raised many issues affecting their surroundings and built environment. Some of the issues include health, social and finance. However, there are initiatives made by the Malaysian government especially Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) and Kuala Lumpur City Hall (KLCH) in which they have come out with guidelines in providing accommodation for the construction workers. Previous studies showed that some developers and contractors providing improper and inadequate living environment for the construction workers, which lead to several issues, including safety and poor living facilities. The objectives of the studies, firstly to study the existing code of practice and guidelines in providing workers accommodation, secondly, to evaluate the existing workers accommodation in Malaysia and finally to propose the good, safety and practical living environment for workers accommodation. The methodology apply in this study include mix method or combine method which are, interview, case study, observation and content analysis. The data obtained from various methods are using descriptive analysis. In conclusion, this research findings attempts to provide guidelines and model of the most suitable living environment for workers accommodation in construction industry in Malaysia.

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Overdesign of Villa Structures in Oman

The Journal of Engineering Research [TJER] ◽

10.24200/tjer.vol12iss2pp68-76 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 68

Author(s):

A.S. Alnuaimi ◽

M. Al Mohsin ◽

A. Hago ◽

S. El Gamal

Keyword(s):

Construction Industry ◽

Structural Design ◽

Field Survey ◽

Construction Costs ◽

Code Of Practice ◽

The Difference ◽

Clear Cases ◽

Almost All ◽

The Cost ◽

Residential Projects

Residential projects represent the largest section of the construction industry in Oman. It is widely claimed that designers in Oman tend to unnecessarily overdesign structures, thereby aggravating construction costs. The aim of this research was to investigate the existence and extent of structural overdesign through the investigation of 31 villas which were approved by Muscat Municipality between 2000–2010. The specified villas were structurally redesigned based on the British Code of Practice using the same geometry and material strengths recorded in the drawings. The required reinforcement resulting from the redesign work was compared with the provided reinforcement as per the drawings. The results showed clear cases of extra reinforcement in almost all villas. The difference between required and provided reinforcements in the villas ranged from 2.3– 104.8%, with an average of 48.5% and a standard deviation of 24.0. The required and provided weights of reinforcement per square meter of the built-up area ranged from 25.7–71 and 40.9–87.9 kg/m2, respectively. The largest differences between the required and provided reinforcement were in the slabs, followed by the footings. A field survey of consultants and municipality engineers indicated that the most notable reasons for overdesign are the absence of authorized agents specialized in reviewing structural design, a lack of an engineering licensing system in Oman, and the phenomenon of experienced engineers leaving design offices for better paying jobs elsewhere. Finally, the cost implication of overdesign is minor compared to the overall cost of building.

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Analysis and Design of Reinforced Concrete Multi-Stored Building (G+5) by using Tekla Software

International Journal for Modern Trends in Science and Technology - RTT2020 ◽

10.46501/ijmtst0703037 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (03) ◽

pp. 229-244

Keyword(s):

Reinforced Concrete ◽

Construction Industry ◽

Limit State ◽

Bending Moment ◽

Wind Loading ◽

Unit Weight ◽

Analysis And Design ◽

Code Of Practice ◽

Budget Analysis ◽

Earthquake Load

The rapidly developing world, in construction industry software’s are used today is the urgent necessity of the moment in order to match the peace of infrastructural development. The main objective of the study is checking the computability of results. The analysis and design of Reinforced Concrete structures is a final stage in the construction industry to deliver the projects with in the estimated time and within the budget. Analysis and design tasks is not an easy matter of fact. Especially specialized software’s are used such as Robot structural Analysis, MIDAS Gen, SAP2000, STAAD PRO, ETABS, TEKLA Structural designer, S-Frame and so on. To gain the design results most commonly used software are validated. In manual design process Indian Standard Codes are utilized and different design modules are used to gain the confidence of the users. The basic elements of a RC Structure such as beams, columns and simple frame have been discussed. In analysis process, shear force and bending moment of beams and columns are comparable in all cases. Thereafter the loads are calculated namely the dead loads, which depend on the unit weight of the materials used (concrete, brick), live loads, which according to the code IS 875-1987 and earthquake load according to IS1893 (PART-1). IS 456:2000 code of practice for plain and reinforced concrete and IS 800:2007 limit state design and seismic ductile design IS:13920(2016) and seismic loading IS 1893 (part 1):2016 and wind loading IS875(part 3):1987. Finally, the footings are designed based on loading from the column and the soil bearing capacity for the particular area. Most importantly, the sections must be checked for all the four components with regard to strength and serviceability factors.Construction plays a significant role in the emergence of ecological problems such as environmental pollutions, energy consumption and carbon emission and so on. In the emergence of ecological situations the specific attention has to be devoted and develop the sustainable and green solutions in the design of buildings and structures.

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