Structure

Jagvir Goyal In planned residential areas, the houses built on small size plots are supposed to have common walls. The building bye laws carry such provision. Mostly, plots having up to 300 square yard plot area are governed by such laws. Certain precautions need to be taken while resting intermediate floor slabs and roof slabs on these common walls. Here, let’s have a look at them: The Concept: Before going into details, it is important to understand the concept of common wall. A common wall is built in such a manner that the centre line of common wall matches with [...]

Whenever a person plans construction of his dream house, he has aims to build a beautiful and unique house that would serve his requirements, but all this at minimum possible cost. Another important aspect is constructing a durable house, which would require minimum maintenance and post construction problems. The task can be little challenging, yet the proper planning can go a long way.

The collapse of a three storey under construction building at Peer Muchalla, near Zirakpur, recently resulted in causing injuries to the workers who were engaged there. The contrator of the building suffered heavy losses due t the collapse of the building, and his reputatin got lost forever.

In the last article, we had focused on aspects related to reinforcement steel, concrete, material consumption, structural design and choice of plot to achieve economy an durability. In this episode, we shall consider some more ways that can help in attaining economy during construction without compromising on strength, durability and beauty of the house: Choose wood laminates: Many brands of decorative laminates are today available in the market to touch the aesthetic sense of the customer who rather finds himself lost in the highly attractive, smooth and shiny world of laminates. Commonly known by the first brand names of Formica [...]