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How to Identify Concrete Distress in Visual Inspection Report?

The Constructor

Distress of concrete refers to the deterioration and decomposition of concrete caused by environmental conditions, autogenous internal influences, and exposure to operation services and testing. This helps engineers […]. The post How to Identify Concrete Distress in Visual Inspection Report?

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Civil Engineering Software | List of Civil Engineering Software | List of Engineering Software

CivilJungle

Civil Engineering Software: Civil engineering software encompasses a variety of tools to assist civil engineers throughout both the design and construction process. This software can help in drafting & documenting, designing, visualizing & analyzing & so on. Revit Structure-. Primavera P6-.

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How To Prepare A Construction Plan

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A construction plan is a detailed document, both written and visual which outlines how you will complete a project or portion of one. People such as structural engineers, mechanical and electrical engineers, elevator professionals and subtrades can all provide valuable input. What Is A Construction Plan?

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The lifecycle of a detail – BIM and butterflies

DebunkTheBIM

In the past, I tried to use all sorts of parallels to explain this idea, from the ideas of visual skeletons, to coatracks fixed in space, but I still find myself meeting blank stares when I try sharing this as the ‘BIG secret’. For a successful project, these references get fixed as soon as it is possible, and are not moved.

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Conceptual Estimating is ideal for project feasibility study

Construction Cost Estimating

Owing to high number of design constraints and intricacy of construction a system known as conceptual cost estimation (also referred to as predesign cost estimation ) has been developed to conceptually estimate the costs for construction industries.

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Rory Woolsey's Construction Estimating Blog: The Estimating.

Rory Woolsey

The estimating process begins with a thorough understanding (and visualization) of the projects scope of work. Architects and engineers define scope in plans and specifications but for construction estimating this scope is incomplete. Each reference construction cost database handles these components differently.

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Revit OpEd: View Discipline

Revit OpEd

The concept of View Discipline appeared with Revit Structure. It was meant to make it simple to alter the appearance of our model to be more in sync with what a structural engineer wants to see. 4)All visual change a Discipline setting makes is available to the user per view. Reference Planes (families).

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