Construction Technology for High Rise Buildings: Handbook

(Full Color on White paper) | 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 2. Material Lift Machines 3. Personnel Lifts 4. Tower Cranes 5. Dewatering 6. Drilled Shaft Foundations 7. Shoring Systems (Earth Retaining Structures) 8. Diaphragm walls (Slurry Walls) 9. Ground anchors (Tiebacks) 10. Basement Waterproofing Systems 11. Shotcrete (Sprayed Concrete) 12. Concrete 13. Production of Concrete 14. Transporting and Handling 15. Concrete Consolidation, Finishing & Curing 16. Introduction to Form Work 17. Vertical and Horizontal Formwork Systems 18. Stripping of Form work 19. Joints in Concrete Structures 20. Post-Tensioning and Mass concreting