Fabulous Construction: The Atlantic Ocean Road

If it’s all about the construction of fabulous road with comfort, safety and aesthetics, then it’s just the one The Atlantic Road. This road is built over many of the islands. This road was opened on 7 July 1989 and costs up to 21 million US Dollars (122 million NOK). This road is made with many Bridges (eight), viaducts, and causeways. To know more about this awesome construction with a fabulous photo gallery continue further…….

LED Bricks: Out Door Lighting with Solar Bricks

Well it’s all about the LED bricks used for outdoor lightning purpose. This technology is developed for utilizing the natural source of energy requiring no maintenance and no energy cost. Almost all of us are familiar to LED bricks, so here we have all about LED bricks as features, usage, advantages, and working of LED bricks. To know more continue Reading the post………

World’s Longest Undersea Tunnel: Seikan Tunnel

The Seikan tunnel is the longest railway undersea tunnel in Japan, which is 53.85 km long between both openings and having its 23.3 km long portion below the seabed. The track laid down in the Seikan tunnel is 240m below the sea level; on the other hand the track is 140m below the seabed.This discussion allows us to know all about an undersea tunnel specially the SEIKAN TUNNEL, advantages and disadvantages of the tunnels over bridges. To know more keep reading the post onwards…..

World’s Highest Straight Gravity Dam: Bhakhra Dam

It’s the one top most dams classified as straight gravity dams. This Dam, at 741 ft (226 m) is the highest one as compared to USA’s largest Hoover Dam (Arched gravity dam). The 90 km long reservoir of this dam is spread over 168.35 sq km, which stores 9.34 billion cubic meters of water which is capable to drain almost 3 states ahead it (Punjab, Haryana, and Delhi). To know more keep reading the post ahead…….

Bridge Expansion Joint: Whatever you must know

Bridge expansion joint is the joint which is specially designed for curing the thermal expansions and especially for all the forces producing movement like earthquake etc. When it’s all about designing a good bridge (providing the expansion joint also) some of the points must be mainly considered. To know more read the post ahead including design criteria of bridges and many more things about expansion joint…….

Sky Bus: The Evolutionary Transportation

Sky Bus Metro is a suspended type of railway or we can say that it comes under the category of tramway type transportation. Sky bus is capable of moving with a speed 100 kmph. The system Sky Bus Metro consists of several conventional and some new proven technologies, which makes the Sky bus more efficient. Who invented sky bus and what is it??? What are its components and benefits??

To know all about this superb technology, continue reading the article……

Self Compacting Concrete Vs Conventional Concrete

This post differentiates between Self compacting concrete and Conventional Concrete.  What is SCC and what are its Advantages over Conventional Concrete??

Why it’s good to use SCC and where?? You will find out all these answers in this article, to know more continue reading…….

Tiger Stone: Brick Road Laying Machine

This article provides a close view with some useful facts about “TIGER STONE MACHINE” used for laying a brick road in few moments. This machine is not fully automatic having 2-3 workers, this machine is capable to lay down 300 square meters (3,230 Sq ft) per day and simultaneously 6 meters (20 ft) wide road with various types of interlocking patterns. For Details read further……

World’s Highest Railway Bridge: All You Need to Know

World’s highest Railway Bridge is coming up in Jammu and Kashmir, India at the height of 359 meters above the bed level. This 359 meters high Bridge is the only one which is 5 times bigger than the great monument Qutub Minar (India) and35 meters taller than the famous Eiffel Tower (France). This bridge is being built on the river Chenab in Reasi valley. To know all about the bridge (construction, Statics, Records follow the post and continue reading ahead……….. 

World’s Highest Bridge: Everything Construction to Records

While we are talking about the highest bridge ever in the world the guinness book of records shows the one and only one result named as Millau Viaduct  cable stayed bridge in France. This article gives you all about this bridge (i.e. History, Construction, Records, superlative Pictures and many more………

Gunite Vs Shotcrete: All About These Technologies

 

This Article provides introduction, information, guidance for selection and application of both of the technologies Gunite and shotcrete in detail. Both of the terms Gunite and Shotcrete stands for the method of application of concrete by exerting pressure force with it. There is a lot of confusion between both of these methods, which are briefly cleared in this post

Green Building: Everything you need to know

What is a green building and how it works and many more questions related to Green Building Concept are briefly answered in this post, which may cause changes in your aspects towards green building.

Know and Download IS CODE 456:2000

This post directly provides a brief information about IS CODE 456:2000 and allows to download a copy of this standard code revised and published in year 2000.