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According to stats published by AWS – American Welding Society, 320,000 welders will be needed in the US by 2029. The American welding industry is currently at a critical turning point as a massive wave of retirements meets an increasing demand for new infrastructure and manufacturing. In 2024, there were approximately 771,000 professionals working in the trade across the United States. However, more than 157,000 […] Read More

Freshly poured concrete hardens within a few hours but needs about four weeks to reach full design strength. In multistory cast-in-place buildings, this waiting period can delay construction schedules, so engineers often remove formwork earlier and use shoring and reshoring to safely transfer loads to lower floors that have gained more strength. With proper planning, floor cycles can be reduced to about two weeks. Shoring […] Read More

A floor tile paving robot is an advanced automated machine designed to efficiently lay tiles on various surfaces with high precision and speed. Utilizing sensors, computer vision, and pre-programmed algorithms, these robots can place tiles accurately, reducing human error and labor costs. They are capable of handling different tile materials, sizes, and patterns. By automating repetitive and physically demanding tasks, floor tile paving robots improve […] Read More

Geotechnical engineering is one of the five main branches in civil engineering, which can further be categorized into soil mechanics, foundation engineering, retaining structures and excavations. Geotechnical engineering is a branch that interacts with all other branches, after all, every structure needs foundation system. Geotechnical engineering failures are usually among the costliest to fix, if the fix is possible at all in the first place. […] Read More

This is one of the posts in a series of our posts that we discuss failures. Also check out the other posts in constructmagazine.com, where we discuss failures in different contexts of civil engineering. A Brief Introduction of Earthquakes vs. Structures: Earthquakes are very important aspect of most design in civil engineering, and for any type of structure. The fundamental earthquake principles as it applies […] Read More

Structural engineering is a major branch of civil engineering, and realistically the first thing that comes to mind of many, when the words civil engineering are mentioned. It deals with designing the body of all types of structures and their supplementary components, connections, attachments per the criteria given in codes, to ensure public comfort and safety. As we mentioned in the previous post in Construct […] Read More

Pipes are inseparable components of industrial facilities which produce all the products we use in our daily life. In this article, we talk about one of the relatively less known type of structures, pipe supports, which don’t get the attention they deserve as other structures but by no means less important, as they carry and hold pipes safely in their place. Although at first a […] Read More

Drainage is an inseparable, fundamental part of highway design. The main goal of a highway drainage system is to “keep water out of the road itself”. The reasons are obvious, such that the carrying capacity of the road will decrease, and the road will slowly erode, once the water keeps coming into the road cross section. Another important consideration is driving safety. If the water […] Read More

In this post we will discuss one of the most environmentally friendly construction concepts, green roofs. The benefits of green roofs are so many that it is difficult to understand current policies being inadequate to support (or even mandate) this system, including in developed countries – of course there are incentives or certain programs that support this but in our opinion this is inadequate even […] Read More

When doing quantity takeoffs for masonry bricks, please make sure that you not only look at the plan and the exterior elevations, but also the flashing details as well, in the case of a building exterior brick. Those details will most probably show you the detail of where the brick is extending below the slab level – if any. This will not be visible from […] Read More