Admixtures are used to improve the properties of concrete or mortar to make them more suitable to work by hand or for other purposes such as saving mechanical energy. Retarding admixtures are used to slow the rate of setting ...

The construction industry is laden with a lot of project performance issues which usually lead to disputes between the Employer and the Contractor. This study investigates the effectiveness of the alternative dispute ...

Globally, attention has been focused on pollution and exhaustion of fossil fuels allied to conventional energy sources. In contrast, non-conventional energy/renewable energy sources have always been considered clean and ...

Accessibility is one of the Key Performance Indicators (KPI) that is used by Long Term Evolution Mobile Networks to check on the quality of the services offered to mobile users. A number of techniques have been used to ...

Preserving road network requires a coordinated approach for good performance and efficient movement of goods and services. The road construction materials and design have great influence on future road conditions and ...

In the Construction industry of Rwanda, front-end construction project management is not well practiced. Although the term “front-end construction project management” is a fairly new expression in the project management ...

In the present study, a hydromagnetic Couette flow between two vertical semi-infinite permeable plates with uniform injection/suction while considering Joule heating has been investigated. The plate where injection takes ...

This study analyses the effect of number of slits on a diverging conical ring insert when symmetrically cut out on the curved surface to generate multi longitudinal vortices in an incompressible fluid flow on a cylindrical ...

Worldwide, the construction industry is experiencing fast and adaptive innovations; new construction technologies such as 3-Dimensional printed structures and different platforms are developed to help professionals involved ...

The introduction and appreciation of the low volume sealed road technique in Kenya has heralded a new era in construction of efficient and effective rural road network. The performance of such roads are affected by various ...