Civil Engineering Association

PREFACE
The Construction Project Engineering handbook is one of the Construction Engineering’s main references, set up to assist students now enrolled within the framework of the Civil Engineering Department – English Section of the Technical University of Civil Engineering of Bucharest.
The purpose of this present handbook is to present fundamental and practical information in the field of plain and reinforced concrete, ensuring that works are undertaken in an orderly manner, as sequence, and follow the required principles of execution.
The handbook covers the whole project cycle for workers, equipment, materials, procedures,organization and quality control for concrete, reinforced concrete and precast concrete, serving as a reference guide for general contractors, construction managers, specialty subcontractors, estimators,project engineers, project managers, construction superintendents, scheduling engineers, sales engineers, or inspectors.
The content of this book is arranged in 6 chapters that are summarized below.
Chapter 1. Concrete Mix Design, addresses the design requirements and methodology regarding selection and proportioning of ingredients for concrete to meet its desired properties for concrete works.
Chapter 2. Rate of Concrete Placement Rough Estimate, presents basic information and specifies simplified means of estimating concrete rate of placement in formwork.
Chapter 3. Concrete Formwork Design, specifies the materials, construction and removal of formwork and shoring made for wood and steel, including fundamental concepts and equations that are used to design and execute them.
Chapter 4. Concrete Maturity, provides an overview regarding concrete maturity determination,outlining current experience in relation to using an effective and rational method in evaluating in-situ concrete strength at different ages.
Chapter 5. Estimates, establishes guidance in describing methods, procedures, and formats for the preparation of construction project cost estimates, from planning phases through modification estimates during concrete construction.
Chapter 6. Concrete Warehouse Structural Frame Erection, provides information concerning planning, detailing, sequencing and erection of concrete warehouse structural frames using precast reinforced and prestressed concrete members.
O.G. Ilinoiu, Bucharest 2004