Sentence examples for life of construction from inspiring English sources

In Going down River Road (1976) he deals with the rough-and-tumble life of construction workers in Nairobi, and in The Cockroach Dance (1979) he recounts the picaresque adventures of a meter reader coping with life in the squalor and violence of a slum.

The study examines the remaining life of construction joint details in a real case study in Switzerland where detailed modelling combined with traditional fatigue load models were found to be insufficient in explaining the real structural behaviour.

These characteristics promotes faster concrete production, reduction of curing waiting time, reduction of construction costs, early project completion, reduction of maintenance costs and increased service life of construction projects.

In the present study the Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) area of science was applied to several levels of analysis: 1, confirmation the existence of damage, 2, determination of the size, location and orientation of the defect, 3, assessment the severity of the damage, 4, controlling the growth of damage and prognosis of service life of construction.

So, autonomous crack healing by means of encapsulated polyurethane has the potential to improve durability of cementitious materials and increase the service life of constructions in chloride containing environments.

With the introduction of new products and/or the adoption of new constructive techniques it has become necessary to develop the fields of durability and service life prediction of construction products, with the purpose of evaluating their performance throughout their life cycle.

Broader BIM adoption will transform construction processes to achieve greater efficiency to improve the quality of life (QOL) of construction stakeholders.

Primary data were collected directly from six Vietnamese construction enterprises involved in the life cycle of construction and demolition waste management.

The results from the long-term batch experiments deliver new information on the release of metal(loid)s during the life cycle of construction materials with regard to river basin management objectives.

This paper deals with the intermediate results of the development of a national standardized classification system called JCCS to ensure harmonized use of various kinds of information to be processed through the whole life cycle of construction projects in a nation-wide Japanese CALS/EC scheme.

Moisture migration in wood is a particularly important factor in determining the cost-effective service life of wooden construction.