What is Reverse Osmosis and how it works?

Reverse Osmosis is the process which is used exorbitantly to purify water. What we observe on water filters or bottled water labelled with R...

Difference between Sustainability and Durability

Although these two terms appears as if they are same but, there is a difference in the context of meaning what they suggest. SUSTAINABILITY:...

What does ENGINEER actually mean?

When I was 8, I first heard the word Engineer which is one of the two careers which we should opt. Not just me, every child of my generatio...

What is Green Building?

When you impose a question of What is Green Building? , the answer is not specifically confined. The goals of green building design are prof...

Detectors in Traffic Management

Devices that help detecting vehicles Due to skyrocketing number of vehicles, Traffic and safety issues are proliferating as well. In allevia...

10 Practical things a civil engineer must know

The 10 Things a CIVIL ENGINEER should learn: 1) Basic Tests of all Building Materials.             Every Civil Engineer should have knowled...

Green Rating Assessment of Building

Globally, large numbers of rating tools have evolved in a number of regions that are influencing property markets towards more sustainable p...

Types of Reservoirs

There are mainly 4 types of reservoirs: 1) STORAGE RESERVOIR Its main purpose is to store water throughout the year and utilise it for irrig...

What are special contracts?

There are certain special contracts which are used in some specific situations. They are: 1) Turn-key contract 2) Package contract 3) Negoti...

Yield of a Reservoir

The amount of water that can be supplied from a reservoir during specified period of time is called the yield of a reservoir. ex:- 25,000 cu...

Indian Railways facts

All you need to know about Indian Railways: > Indian railway system is the second largest in Asia and the fourth largest in the world. ...

Construction Project Management Presentation

As construction involves various activities starting from the design and planning to project completion and quality check, there is a exorbi...

Top 10 Countries with most heritage sites

Here is the list of Top 10 Countries which has most heritage sites as per UNESCO.... source: Roberto Morandi 1. ITALY     Italy tops the lis...

Most polluted cities of the world

This list contains the list of cities by PM2.5 annual mean concentration measurement whose measurement is greater than or equal to the air q...

Ferrocement Construction

              Ferrocement or ferro-cement (also called thin-shell concrete or ferro-concrete ) is a system of reinforced mortar or plaste...

How Whitetopping of Roads is done?

                                Whitetopping is laying of Portland cement concrete on the top the existing asphalt pavement. The thickness o...