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Small housing industry is all time necessity , small dwellings are required to start a family unit, but its very unfortunate that houses are going costly day by day.Private societies have been substitute for housing needs but now they are main cause of making them costly, developers/builders/propertieay are selling poorly developed lands on premium costs. A small plot is selling at 80 lac (8M), then in societies due to poor, non-engineered fills, there is huge cost of foundation stabilization, around 3M to 4M, after heavy foundation expenses there are chances that foundation might settle or deform, in some cases fills are more than 40ft, and consolidation takes too much time, water ingress is another issue. Foundation engineers need to come forward and tackle this problem, this is a practical problem and could benefit a lot of people, universities can develop a collaboration and can come up with some good solution in few years. Till now this problem is tackled by structural engineers (talking of my area, other areas might have better solutions already), and they are adding structural piles underneath foundations, piled raft, but problem is on geotechnical side so its geotechnical solution is required that should be affordable, structural solution is not affordable. Structurally lighter materials can assist to decrease stress on subsoils. On fills lights weight concrete or LGS or SCIP or modular houses shall be constructed. But for this people shall develop taste for new materials and alternatives.A family constructs house from their hard earn money, this should not be that difficult and costly. Future development should be improved, though there are no chances, developers/propertieay just need money, they leave ethics aside.People themselves shall ask for soil condition before buying plots, its not wise to buy a sick horse and then spend money on its health, i have observed propertieay (this is my term for property dealer) who jump on the filled areas and say see how hard is the land. Ethics? they dont bother. No Govt., society or anyone shall come to our help we shall stand for ourselves.Thank You

Societies and buildings are growing like weed, no control over anything, no construction standards, no development standards, no QA/QC, no sustainability under consideration, not a single thought to future of these buildings, just a person announces a building and start selling alongside road, gather public funds and becomes a builder.No thought to site selection, no traffic study, there are 20 storey apartment alongside a 30ft wide rd, there are buildings in the way of river and we are flood prone nation, where are Govt Dept, NDMA, PDMA,(might be waiting to happen something) who is allowing societies to sell river beds or pathways.Sustainable future is necessity for next generation, but our town planners are creating plots in every corner of land, there is not a single society that is harvesting rain water, rain water is drained out and Ground water table is lowering day by day in city areas, we consider it for granted but it is not so, we need to recharge ground water, there are simple techniques that can recharge ground water table.Maintenance of concrete buildings is an issue, there are no post construction inspections, no safety precautions against fire, no proper design of firefighting. Mass concrete production is contributing to climate change and consumption of natural materials unwisely. Buildings shall be inspected after every 5 years for structural integrity for the safety and security of public.Ready Mix concrete supplier are producing third class concrete, no check and balance on them and builders just consider cheapest one, no design mix consideration.Engineers are not doing there part to develop designs and Architects are trying to produce something extra ordinary without thinking of construction strategies, they want to make a sellable product, not a livable, sustainable space for living.Commercialization of professions is killing the nature, society, values, sustainability, standards and ethics.We need to stop and think as a Nation!!! We can do much better.

Engineers Training Session: Training session for Civil Engineers, BSc Civil, BS tech Freshers/final year student/junior engineers who are interested in learning structural design and construction basics. This will help them in interviews. Duration will be 5 days, from 18-10-2021 to 22-10-2021, Timing: 11am to 3 pm, Location , Bahria Town, Ph 8, Rawalpindi. Participants have to manage their lodging/residence/travelling. For details Contact on email cewaqar@gmail.com. Regards

I have observed in the past 6-month that there is a real need to bring together and promote the profession of Structural Engineering in Pakistan. To start the process we are working on a platform PASE - Pakistan Association of Structural Engineers (www.pase.pk). This is a voluntary setup and the aim is to promote practical aspects of structural design and construction in Pakistan. We have started with a simple website, which s in early stages of development (baby steps). Interesting to note that the idea came about after a post in SEPAKISTAN. Whilst nothing is easy in Pakistan, (which makes the challenge more exciting), we aim to make inroads and bring the "Pakistan Structural Engineering Profession" to International Standards by knowledge sharing on real practical design and construction topics - so you can be equipped to compete with the right skills in both national and Internationally against other consulting engineers. For forum and discussions, the PASE website directs the visitor to this SEPAKISTAN forum....which i think works great, so congratulations to Sepakistan team - great set up guys. First challenge is to compile a "Pakistan Building Reinforcement Detailing Manual", and make it available on the website in the next few months(only started on it after a post in this forum a few days ago, will take a month or two to compile). The aim is to equip the Pakistani Structural Engineers with knowledge and information on "practical structural design" - that is at par with international standards. A 2-day programme of training courses and lectures was in the planning for October 2020 in Islamabad - but this has had to be postponed for the time being due to Covid-19 social distancing and travel restrictions. This may now probably move to later in the year or even early in 2021 - we shall see. The website: pase.pk (If you have issue connecting then google "Pakistan Association of Structural Engineers pase.pk") - we certainly are not IT professionals. Any feedback via the "contact" tab of the website from structural engineers would be welcome. Kind Regards Simple Structures

Hi All, I have a question regarding the concreting joint on site. The problem is strength of column is 5000 psi and strength of beam is 4500 psi. during execution joints are concreted with beams so practically i don't understand how to resolve this issue. please guide. Regards, Ahsan Ali

Assalam o aliekum I need th list of basic and specific construction materials used for the construction of Faisal Mosque . if someone could healp me .