Testing Building Material Onsite.
Testing Building Material Onsite By: Sahil Kishore Sharma The major concern on site execution is the quality of the material received and with the inflating prices of the material checking the quality becomes a major challenge for the construction industry. In large projects a dedicated quality team is incharge for maintaining the overall quality of the materials but in low cost projects especially in tough terrains like J&K the accessibility of the experts is also a very hard task. With this article the fundamental theme is to touch upon the points which can be used as guiding principles for a low cost project so that if the expert is not accessible at least if basics are followed a fairly decent construction can be executed in India. Field tests of brick, cement, sand and stone chips are very much essential as they are the most common construction materials which are used in almost all of the civil engineering construction from brickwork to floor finishing . As a civi...