Construction Technology for High Rise Buildings: Handbook

This book is directed mainly toward construction management, construction engineering and concrete contractors, presented in a comprehensive format to emphasize the importance of the numerous specialist professions and trades, it has been supplemented extensively with new pictures and drawings illustrating typical construction details, processes and concepts. Chapter 1. Construction machines Chapter 2. Material lift machines Chapter 3. Personnel lifts Chapter 4. Tower cranes Chapter 5. Dewatering Chapter 6. Drilled shaft foundations Chapter 7. Shoring systems (earth retaining structures) Chapter 8. Diaphragm walls (slurry walls) Chapter 9. Ground anchors (tiebacks) Chapter 10. Basement waterproofing systems Chapter 11. Shotcrete (sprayed concrete) Chapter 12. Concrete Chapter 13. Production of concrete Chapter 14. Transporting and handling Chapter 15. Concrete consolidation, finishing & curing Chapter 16. Introduction to form work Chapter 17. Vertical and horizontal formwork systems Chapter 18. Stripping of form work Chapter 19. Joints in concrete structures Chapter 20. Post-tensioning, mass concrete and precast panels