Civil engineering
Drainage
August 13, 2011 | 
Author Drainage is the act of draining the water-soaked land, through pipes, tunnels, canals, ditches and trenches being possible to use motors to support the marketing. Channels can be natural (rivers or streams) or artificial plain or reinforced concrete or gabion. Drainage systems, which comprise besides the penstocks and the open channel can be urban and / or rural areas and seek to dispose of rain water and prevent flooding.
The discipline that studies the drainage surface hydrology is usually taught in the courses in sanitary engineering, hydraulic engineering, civil engineering, agricultural engineering or even in some courses in Environmental Engineering.
It has been increasingly frequent use of geosynthetics to improve the performance and extend the life of drainage systems.
A drainage project should include a proper study to avoid common mistakes in this type of activity. If the specification and technical analysis are not adequate you may end up not having an efficient drainage and may even lose all the work and money invested.
For the preparation of the drainage project should include the following steps:
- Recognition and delineation of the affected area
- Surveying
- Study of groundwater
- Soil Study
- Elaboration of the project.
In the first we know the area to be drained and there is a possible source of excess water. The second item is also essential because through it one can trace the design guidelines that seek out high places which the water flows and the lowest where the pipes are buried. The study of the water table is very specific and depends on the region, there is a need for this installation of a network of observation wells, covering the entire project area [more details in the original article whose link is at the end of text]. The soil study is to verify the hydraulic conductivity and macroporosity of soil. These data come directly into the drain spacing calculations. Also important is the study of weather to check the rainfall in the region. Finally the project is developed based on previous data and formulas available to determine the best layout and spacing of the tubes to be used more efficiently in your project.
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Plumbing
Plumbing is a specialty of mechanical engineering applied to building and plumbing specialist, bringing together all the techniques used to circulate fluids (liquid or gas) by means of pipes, tubes, valves, taps, valves , pumps and materials to the various points of use of an installation.
The objectives of the plumbing are designed to allow better hygiene and make life easier in society to meet the basic needs of living human beings. It is already known as essential as breathing, drinking and dispose of waste are fundamental. The high concentration of humans on small territories require that such health measures. Improve the safety of homes, cities by the techniques of plumbing, construction services, sewer and water. Urban health could improve and enable the growth of cities in hygienic conditions despite the increase in population in a small area of territory.
The plumbing supplies can be steel, stainless steel, clay, bamboo, copper, brass, glass, thermoplastic aqueduct (PVC, polyethylene, polypropylene), cement, asbestos cement or cement aqueduct armed to the storm, cast iron centrifuged for health or ductile iron for water, aluminum-lined thermoplastic for the storm, vitrified clay or other materials approved for a specific use.
The piping may be made of reinforced concrete that is found mainly in the field of civil engineering, an area that starts at a meter outside the building, while inside the building, the pipe is the Building Systems Engineering and ends at a meter outside of it.
Connections can be made: by mechanical or compression joints for cast iron pipes, some plastic pipes and vitrified clay, by cable / lead for cast iron pipes with bell attached by threaded or threaded or welded to the pipes steel, for soldering to copper pipes, with cement for cement pipes by fusion of plastic pipes, for o-ring for PEX tubing or plastic tubing.
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Infrastructure
The infrastructure means all long-lived basic institutions of human, financial or institutional nature, which guarantee the functioning of the division of labor economy. It can be different given the infrastructure (climate, geographical location, people), the infrastructure created by private and state-designed infrastructure (economic order, state entrepreneurial activity and public infrastructure investment).
Infrastructure and superstructure are terms that were first used by NATO. The infrastructure originally referred to the lines in the soil, such as pipelines and cables.
The planning, preparation and maintenance of certain types of infrastructure is partly a function of the state viewed him or associated bodies (public institutions, public enterprises) in the context of general interest.
In the course of privatization of public / state enterprises and governmental functions in particular creation and maintenance of infrastructure increases private or private law firms are transferred. The planning and regulatory control, however, remains the state.
The creation of a public infrastructure is usually financed by tax money.
The infrastructure there is sometimes national peculiarities. Shall each have the Switzerland, Austria and Germany over a railway power network, is performed while in the other countries of the electric railway operating normally with power from the general supply network of the transmission system operator.
The term infrastructure is now also used to identify similar basic technical institutions in the private sector, for example in companies. Can thus including managed roads, buildings and basic technical services such as electricity or communication in industrial parks or office buildings.
The bio construction
They are called bio building systems or establishing homes, shelters or other structures made of materials with low environmental impact or ecological, recycled or highly recyclable and removable by simple processes and low cost such as materials, plant and bio compatible.
The act of building generates a large impact on our environment. The bio aims to minimize as far as possible by helping to create sustainable development that does not exhaust the planet but is the generator and regulator of the resources used to achieve a healthy habitat in harmony with the rest. The housing must adapt to us as a 3rd skin, should seek shelter, shelter, health. The bio construction be understood as a way to build respectful of all living things. That is, how to build that favors the evolutionary processes of all living and biodiversity. Ensure balance and sustainability of future generations.
This should take into consideration:
- Land management
- Water management
- Air Management
- Energy management
- Consumption and local development
According to the book Bioethics as a bridge between science and society:
The awareness of the environment is leading to formulate models or application of design and construction techniques for green buildings, buildings with sustainability options, constructive processes in favor of earthen architecture that evoke the presence of the four elements of nature: earth, water, air and fire, in the processes of life in just proportion, where if you look at this ratio to approach the optimum from a biological perspective, which considers the resonance between architecture and its inhabitants, is these architectures would land value, since in combination with stone foundations, wooden roofs, the clay roof and forms given to these materials, solve the harmony of these elements. The land and its associated symbolic form, the circle, have historically settled the foundation of residential architecture.
Building And Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering is the concept of the design, manufacture and maintenance of physically and naturally built environment-related. Included the construction and civil engineering works for bridges, roads, canals, dams, airports and buildings. This is not only for building and civil engineering are just some examples.
Civil Engineering of the oldest engineering disciplines after military engineering one. Since the beginning of human existence is part of life. Even in the modern era there is no clear distinction between civil engineering and architecture was not.
One of the key aspects of building, civil engineering and structural engineering. Structural Engineering with the structure to be able to resist successfully loaded themselves as well as to be able to support. This function is the structural engineer to ensure design, bridges, roads and airports, such as aspects of its work to build safe and was successful. Should be taken into account the design ideas of some of the force strength and stability of civil construction. This need to structure itself so that everyone can catch the Czech Republic is committed to safety. Can be taken other things in mind when it comes to civil construction and engineering costs, constructibility, safety and aesthetic, including the proposed structure and needs stability.
The society in which we live today to say that society will not succeed without the construction of civil engineering and safe. This is because the infrastructure that we use in our daily lives, which supports our daily lives do not exist if not for the construction of infrastructure and civil engineering. We are roads, ports, railways, airports, hospitals, schools, sports stadiums, construction and engineering without a second thought that is behind them drinking water and shelter from the weather in the aspects of our daily lives such as getting used to. We are ever more innovative teams and contractors who design and manufacture as well as sophisticated atmosphere that surrounds our daily lives, and maintain the confidence-building.
Group civil engineer / construction work is more than just building the infrastructure side. They have many activities that they have every day, including the formulation and decision-making and interaction between computers, communications, documents, and creative thinking, planning and information that is collected and evaluated and analyzed. This is the architect for the job of designing structures and other project and make it show. Engineer based on the analysis of information and make the right decisions are made to solve the problems.
If you are an employer or the owner of the property and at the expense of civil structures such as ease of access to a road or airport expansion will need to submit, it is important that you encountered a team building contractor should enlist the help of highly skilled and civil construction projects and the manufacturing industry in all aspects. Construction engineers of the structural aspects of the design team and contractor safety plan to ensure that the final product of the criteria that should be able to.