Most of construction projects suffer from delays. These delays could be due to several reasons such as, poor design, poor planning and variation orders. The most controversial type of delays in the construction industry ...

Cracking represents a major threat for the integrity and performance of structures. There are many factors that initiate cracking that are related to environment, properties of concrete itself and several other variables ...

Achieving the optimum design is to sustain the architectural function with minimum construction cost. Optimizing the design requires the architect to prepare several design alternatives with different space utilizations ...

Variations or change orders are inevitable in any construction project. They are defined as any change that happens in the scope of the project whether this change is an additional scope of work, omission, or even alteration. ...

International Financial Institutions are exploring solutions that can ensure the effectiveness of funds with respect to the achievement of desired results/outputs. Results-Based finance (RBF) considers this goal through ...

The commercially available systems currently used in construction require high initial cost, take time to be erected and reduce the space in the construction site for the movement of material, equipment and labor as they ...

Concrete cracking has various causes and is unavoidable. Cracking has adverse effects on structure’s integrity, durability and serviceability. In strategic structures such as nuclear reactors and dams this cannot be ...

This thesis presents a framework for developing a local decision support model that helps decision makers in Egypt to select the best and optimal scenario to retrofit existing buildings factoring in a predefined budget. ...

While a lot of research has been conducted under on sustainable building materials towards exploring the mechanical and physical properties of fly ash as a recycled material that replaces ordinary portland cement in concrete, ...

In Egypt there is a lack of forestry regions and it depends totally on imported wood from several areas as Europe and Australia. Casuarina Glauca Sieber ex Spreng is an evergreen tree with very hard, heavy and a dark-brown ...