Abstract Cost control is an important issue in construction project management. It is widely practiced by contractors in Sudan and needs to be carried throughout the life of the project. This study is conducted to study the cost control methods in construction projects, identify the cost control method used by Sudanese contractors during the construction stage , to identify the problem faced by Sudanese contractor in controlling the costs of projects ,and to identify factors that can affect t...
TABLE OF CONTENTSTABLE OF CONTENTS 2LIST OF FIGURES 5CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 61.1 BACKGROUND 61.2 BUILDING MAINTENANCE OVERVIEW 71.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE RESEARCH 101.4 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 101.5 LITERATURE REVIEW 11CHAPTER TWO: BUILDING MAINTENANCE COST CONCEPT 142.1 CLASSIFYING MAINTENANCE COST 142.2 CONTROLLING MAINTENANCE COST 182.3 DECISION INCURRING MAINTENANCE EXPENDITURE 212.4 INEFFECTIVE MAINTENANCE COST 242.5 FORMS OF MAINTENANCE CONTRACTS 252.6 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DESIGN AND BUILDI...
ABSTRACT The building construction industry is very important to the socio-economic development of a nation. It portrays its religions and cultural values as well as the wealth of the nation. In spite of its importance, the construction industry has been regarded as being risky with frequent and high accident rate and Ill-health problems to workers, practitioners and end users. The purpose of this project is therefore to assess the health and safety practices adopted on building construction...
In this study of designing a wind turbine using wind energy potential, a case of FUTA. Weibull distribution function method was adopt with the help of probability density function and cumulative density function analysis, the wind speed characteristics and energy potential of the study area was investigated using hourly wind speed data that span between 1 and 12 months (1year) and measured at a height of 10 m. Hellmann power law was used to derive the wind characteristics of the study area to...
Abstract This project outlines the structural design of eight-storey reinforced concrete hostel building following British standard, BS: 8110, part 1, 1997 “Structural use of Concrete”. The project aimed at producing structural design of eight storey hostel. The research was achieved based on the objectives of; developing structural layout from the architectural drawings; analyzing and designing the structural elements with some degree of economic consideration and producing the structura...
This project proposes the use of a propellers to power a lightweight vehicle as a non-conventional means of transportation within the school environment. Propellers work based on the generation of thrust sufficient enough to move a mass (in this case, a lightweight, three-wheeled vehicle) to which it is connected. The propeller powered vehicle makes use of this thrust generated as the basic source of power needed for acceleration. Although there already exist various works on the development ...
Background of the Study: Every construction company all over the world expects not only to break even in every project undertaken, but to also make a reasonable level of profit that will satisfy the owners of the company. This is only possible if the activities involved in undertaking any particular project are optimized, viz-á-viz the factors of time, cost and quality are successfully brought into optimal play, which defines the success of the project. But until construction project...
ABSTRACT Construction works estimate inaccuracies and none performance have made the imprecise cost estimating practice subjective. This study assessed the dimensions of cost estimating risks influencing building projects’ estimates. The objectives were to identify sources of cost estimating risks; determine critical risk influencing building project cost estimating; and to investigate management practices for improving building works estimates. The study data were collected through structu...
ABSTRACT Variation order is a common phenomenon in construction projects. It involves an amendment of the original scope of a project as in the contract. Variation orders are caused from various factors.Variations often cause disputes and dissatisfactions among the parties involved in construction projects. Thus, it is very important to control variation orders in a construction project. According to Calibri">Arain and Pheng (2005) the effects of variation orders on institutional building pr...
ABSTRACT Walling materials play a vital role in the construction of buildings. The study run a comparative analysis between Hydraform blocks and sandcrete blocks which are both major components of walling to ascertain which block is more cost effective, has high compressive strength and compare the benefit of Hydraform block to sandcrete block. Snowball sampling technique was used to sample data from nine professionals who have experience in the use of both Hydraform blocks and sandcrete ...
ABSTRACT This project entitled “Rehabilitation of Road” is aimed at investigating the causes of failure on the road linking Federal Secretariat, IMT Civil soil lab to Industrial Centre IMT Campus III Enugu and the possible way of re-designing it for its effective use by IMT community and visitors of IMT. But before the road is being re-designed, effort was made to find out the causes of the road failure along this road which includes lack of drainage system, lack of maintenance, inadequ...
ABSTRACT The work was an attempt to evolve a quicker and easier means of reaching high places and point safely in tall buildings and other high structures. This has no doubt saved consideration cost of employing cranes. A very clear account of the introduction and literature background of the project has been discussed in details. The report also unveils the preliminary experiments carried out to determine the load carrying capacity of the ladder. Efforts were also made to highlight ...
The aim of this research work is to discover how maintenance of buildings and infrastructures can be effected, effectively to help increase the workers output thus increasing labour efficiency and increasing the income of the nation leading to increased income per capita of the populace. The objectives of this research work are as follows: (a)Have a proper look at the level of maintenance attention that buildings and infrastructures within Nigeria receive. (b)Now the current building and...