This post (building construction tools list) is written with the intention to make it as a go-to option for all of us.
Sometimes we know the tool but don’t know the name of them in English. We hope we all face this at least once in our life. The below list is a collective effort.
For a high rise building, we will receive approved drawings from architect office regarding water tank dimension.
But what if you need to calculate a water tank for a small residential.
In this post, we are going to see how to estimate rectangular water tank capacity & size?
How many of you know about specific gravity of cement?
We hope almost all of us would remember the value as 3.15 (actually 3.12-3.19). But most of us do not know why we are calculating this value?
Have you been told “Add some water, the concrete looks very hard”?
Is this right? Adding more water (Water Cement Ratio) at the site level to increase the concrete workability ???
Absolutely Not…
Most of the structural buildings comprise 75% of brickwork (at least in Asian countries).
So it is essential to learn the brickwork calculation,
Before beginning the calculation, be familiar with the types of brick bonds that we covered in the previous post.
We use different grades of concrete for different parts of the building.
We could say the grade of concrete is the only thing we do care lot while concreting.
In this post, we are going to explain that in detail.
In this post, we are going to explain you, How to Calculate Cement, Sand Quantity for Plastering?
Please note, before using the calculator embedded in this post understand the plastering cement mortar calculation concept.
Overall Strength of a structure such as flexural resistance and abrasion directly depends upon the compressive strength of concrete.
According to Wikipedia, Compressive Strength of concrete is defined as the Characteristic strength of 150mm size concrete cubes tested at 28 days.
We have already discussed Nominal Mix of Concrete and Mix Proportions.
If you have missed that please go ahead and read that. We will wait for you.
It’s time for some calculations.
In this post, we are going to explain how to calculate steel quantity for the slab? For both one way and two way slab with an example.
We often confuse, can we use 75mm (3 inches) or 100mm (4 inches) for skirting tiles?
That 25 mm doesn’t make much difference if you know the reason of providing skirting tiles.
Skirting tiles are the tiles that laid in the corner of a wall and floor junction.
We all know that the quality of brickwork directly depends upon the materials we used.
We have also seen how low-quality soil affects the quality of the work in silt content test
We have already talked a lot about the properties of Cement and conducted some tests.
Today we are going to see the consistency of cement test.
Cement is a basic material which can’t be ignored at any situations.
Even if it is plumbing or electrical works some sort of cement action will be required there. In this post, we are going to explain you about some special types of cement available in the market.
Plastering is a process of covering the walls and ceiling with a smooth finish by any type of plaster materials (Cement, POP etc).
The below plastering work checklist and procedure will be useful for any type plastering work.
FSI stands for Floor Space Index also known as Floor Area Ratio (FAR).
FSI means the ratio between the area of a covered floor (Built up Area) to the area of that plot (land) on which a building stands.
Do you think it’s that simple formula (D2 / 162.2) for steel weight calculation of a bar?
Nope…
It’s hard to find the exact weight of steel bars according to its area, it is advisable to refer the manufacturer’s chart to calculate the weight of the steel bar.
If you can’t find the details, then the below steel bar weight calculation formulas are useful for site level execution.
we have learned how to calculate tiles needed for a floor?
Go ahead and read that post in case if you missed it.
In this post, we are going to calculate total tile flooring cost estimation.
Sand plays the vital role in every part of the construction (concrete, plastering, brickwork, flooring).
So it is essential to ensure that we are using good quality of sand.
You may wonder, What should be the required size of Septic Tank for a domestic or commercial building? We already explained how to calculate the Water Tank Size.
In this post, we are going to see, how to calculate the size of Septic Tank?.
Another Experiment on Sand. Why sand?
The main purpose of adding sand in concrete is to minimise the segregation of concrete and to fill out the pores between the cement and coarse aggregate.
Today we are going to calculate the number of riser and treads for a staircase.
This looks like a simple calculation but believe us there is more demolition than perfect construction of staircase. Even though we do the perfect calculation of rise and tread the way of implementation is most important one.
You have probably heard these terms often and wonder what these really mean? Right.
Today we are going to see the difference between Control, Construction, and Expansion Joints.
We know that concrete is strong in compression and weak in tension that’s why we use reinforcement for high tensile strength. The added content of the concrete makes it incredible in strength.
According to the need for stress and load actions, we need different types and shapes of columns consisting n number of bars.
In this post, we are going to see “How to calculate cutting length of Stirrups in Column?” for different shapes
Cement – Irreplaceable material in any construction (as of now). It is essential to check its quality before using. we have already seen “how specific gravity of cement affects the strength?”
In this post, we are going to see another lab experiment which determines the soundness of cement.
In this post, we are going to see “ Bar Bending Schedule for Pile Foundation”.
Hope you have read other Bar Bending Schedule Posts.
So Let’s get started.
In this post, we are going to explain “How to make bar bending schedule for Column?”
This article will be quite long. Brace Yourself.
First of all, there are some criteria & assumptions that need to be met while making bar bending schedule for a column. Let’s get started.
In this post, we are going to see How to prepare bar bending sche
