Difference between End Bearing Piles and Skin Friction Piles.

Deep foundation especially pile foundation is best suited and mostly used for a low bearing and bad textured soil or for the heavy load structures. Bearing capacity is the deciding factor for the geotechnical design of foundation. Bearing capacity of soil is defined as load bearing capacity of the soil without having different settlement as … Read more

Advantages and Disadvantages of Cast in Situ Concrete Piles

Cast In Situ is a term meaning a construction item or structural member like a beam or in this case a Pile that is to be constructed, assembled or poured at site rather than prefabrication in a factory. Generally in cast in place or cast in situ construction concrete is transported from a batch plant … Read more

Right of Way – Definition – Width – Roads – Highways

When you’re into dealing with different pieces of land or in highway engineering, you need to figure out what is right of way width for a road or for any civil engineering property.  We drive on highways and use public amenities such as streets and sidewalks frequently but we don’t think about them very much … Read more

3D Laser Scanning in Construction

3D Laser scanning technology that is also sometimes referred as high definition surveying (HDS), is a method of digitally capturing and collecting surface data with extreme precision using a beams of laser scanner which quickly captures the highly accurate distance of densely-scanned points over a given object. Laser scanning is a technology of high-accuracy mapping … Read more

Recruitment of Civil Engineering Staff for Surgical Tower, Mayo Hospital, Lahore November, 2017

The applications for appointments on adhoc basis against the following vacant posts in Mayo Hospital (Lahore) are invited. The candidates fulfilling the prescribed qualification / criteria as shown against each category of post should apply along with attested two sets of photocopies of their testimonials (from Matric Certificate to onward along with domicile and N.I.C) … Read more