A 41-year-old construction supervisor died after a portion of the ceiling collapsed at Veeranari Chakali Ilamma Women’s University in Koti, Hyderabad. The incident occurred during renovation work at ...

Roughly two-thirds of the backyard of our new house is covered with concrete slab and so I thought I would go our there and break it up with a sledgehammer in advance of putting in a new garden. The ...

Ahmedabad: The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has recently constructed roads on both sides of the Kharikat canal in Vatva, however a culvert or RCC slab to connect them over the canal has not ...

Can panels made of gypsum reinforced with glass fibre be used as load-bearing walls replacing brick in a multi-storied building? Can they also be used as floor/roof in place of reinforced cement ...

When project teams debate the relative merits of steel and concrete building frames, design quality is seldom the only criterion. Construction time and cost are usually paramount considerations. The ...