Batiment International Building Research and Practice Volume 15 Issue 1-6

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Modular co‐ordination

McEvatt, W.

1987 Batiment International, Building Research and Practice

Is the concept of modular co‐ordination ‘theoretical’ or ‘Utopian’ as some sceptics allege? Not at all, writes the co‐ordinator of CIB working commission W24/IMG, who here outlines its progress over the years, what it is now about and ‐ especially ‐ what it is not. CIB Report No. 68, the modern...

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Trough‐body trucks for ready‐mixed

Andersson, Gösta

1987 Batiment International, Building Research and Practice

doi:10.1080/09613218708726785

In Sweden, the conventional revolving‐drum type of truck mixer is something of a rarity for transporting ready‐mixed concrete to the building site. Instead, about 80 percent of ready‐mix is carried from the production factories in trucks with trough‐shaped containers. The system is cheaper, more...

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Sensor control of dry concrete mixes

Hub, K.; Kuha, J.; Tucek, A.

1987 Batiment International, Building Research and Practice

doi:10.1080/09613218708726786

First attempts to devise a reliable manufacturing control method for dry mix consistency proved inconclusive. However, this article from Czechoslovakia shows that a link was found between electric conductivity and the addition of water to the dry mix. This led to the deduction that the mix acts...

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The lift‐form method

Nagy, István

1987 Batiment International, Building Research and Practice

doi:10.1080/09613218708726787

A building method has been developed by the Hungarian Institute for Building Science, where the author is the project manager, and the Kipszer industrial firm which allows flexibility in size, shape and internal layout of a building on a grid module of 1.2 m. Construction is essentially of in...

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Ghana

Gidigasu, M.D.

1987 Batiment International, Building Research and Practice

doi:10.1080/09613218708726788

A strategic task for building research in the Ghanaian context should be to give new life to well‐tried methods and to develop the local resources of labour and materials, writes the director of the Building and Road Research Institute at Kumasi. The reasons are not only economic ‐ saving scarce...

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Gauging productivity in construction

Jarle, Per‐olof

1987 Batiment International, Building Research and Practice

doi:10.1080/09613218708726789

The history of productivity studies is reviewed here, with particular reference to attempts to improve on the conventional charting of single‐factor productivity, usually the labour element. Results of recent studies, mostly in Scandinavia and North America, are summarised and the paper...

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Reduced laying depths for supply mains

Elbinger, Karl

1987 Batiment International, Building Research and Practice

doi:10.1080/09613218708726790

Laying of supply piping below ground involves heavy costs. This paper from the GDR Bauakademie, Institute of Construction and Civil Engineering, Leipzig, describes how the costs have been reduced by up to 30 percent as a result of reducing the minimum depths required, by reassessing piping...

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Deciding the objectives

Freeman, Ian

1987 Batiment International, Building Research and Practice

doi:10.1080/09613218708726795

Introducing a feature on the activities so far of a very young CIB working commission, the founding co‐ordinator of W86 explains why there was quite a long gestation period before the commission could decide its priorities from the many options available, and why it is in fact now concentrating...

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Frameworks for defects diagnosis

Smith, J. L.

1987 Batiment International, Building Research and Practice

doi:10.1080/09613218708726796

As one with long experience and much expertise in identifying causes of dampness in buildings, the author became the ‘human expert’ for ‘knowledge mining’ by the knowledge engineers working on an expert system for the subject. The insights he thus gained into diagnostic thinking are reflected...

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Field investigations of moisture problems

Tolstoy, Nicolaj

1987 Batiment International, Building Research and Practice

doi:10.1080/09613218708726797

To help achieve a consistent and objective approach to field studies of moisture problems in buildings, a Nordic project has produced a Nordtest Technical Report. It sets out systematic procedures for examining moisture problems in roofs, external walls and floors laid on ground slabs, and for...

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