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AMITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING

Modern Construction Technology

Modern Construction Technology is the process of preparing for and forming buildings and building systems.

The process of building large structures with the minimum use of cost , time and environment.

Construction starts with planning, design, and financing and continues until the structure is ready for occupancy.

Concrete walls and floors

Concrete walls is an eclectic category with options for everything like seat walls; decorative interior or exterior finishes; sound walls that abut a freeway; retaining walls to hold back the earth; to the very walls that comprise the exterior.

Concrete has become the new flooring material of the latest technology.

Whether it's acid-stained, painted, overlays, microtoppings, radiant floors, or a unique personal floor, concrete floors offer a range unlike any other material

Concrete flooring, sometimes referred to as cement flooring.

One of the major benefits of concrete floors is their affordability compared to other flooring options.

 concrete flooring is ease of maintenance.

When properly sealed concrete floors can be cleaned with a quick pass of a dust mop.

Precast cladding panels

Cladding is the application of one material over another to provide skin or layer intended to control the infiltration of weather elements, or for aesthetic purposes

 Cladding does not necessarily have to provide a waterproof condition but is instead a control element.

This control element may only serve to safely direct water or wind in order to control run-off and prevent infiltration into the building structure.

Precast flat panel system

Floor and wall units are produced off-site in a factory and erected on-site to form robust structures, ideal for all repetitive cellular projects.

Panels can include services, windows, doors and finishes.

Building envelope panels with factory fitted insulation and decorative cladding can also be used as load-bearing elements.

This offers factory quality and accuracy, together with speed of erection on-site.

3D Volumetric Modules

3D Volumetric construction (also known as modular construction) involves the production of three-dimensional units in controlled factory conditions prior to transportation to site.

Modules can be brought to site in a variety of forms, ranging from a basic structure to one with all internal and external finishes and services installed, all ready for assembly.

The casting of modules uses the benefits of factory conditions to create service-intensive units where a high degree of repetition and a need for rapid assembly on-site make its use highly desirable.

Twin wall Technology Twin wall construction is a walling

system that combines the speed of erection and quality of precast concrete with the structural integrity of in-situ concrete to provide a hybrid solution.

Twin wall is an adaptable wall system that provides the speed and quality of precast concrete with the structural and waterproof reliability .

The prefabricated panels comprise two slabs separated and connected by cast-in lattice girders.

The units are placed, temporarily propped, then joined by reinforcing and concreting the cavity on site.

Twin wall is usually employed in association with precast flooring systems.

Flat Slabs

 Flat slabs are highly versatile elements widely used in construction, providing minimum depth, fast construction and allowing flexible column grids.

Flat slabs are particularly appropriate for areas where tops of partitions need to be sealed to the slab soffit for acoustic or fire reasons.

Flat slabs are considered to be faster and more economic than other forms of construction.

Flat slabs can be designed with a good surface finish to the soffit, allowing exposed soffits to be used.

This allows exploitation of the building’s thermal mass in the design of heating, ventilation and cooling requirements, increasing energy efficiency.

Thin Joint Masonry

Thin joint blockwork (thin joint masonry) is a fast, clean, accurate system for construction using autoclaved aerated concrete blocks of close dimensional tolerance with 2mm-3mm mortar joints.

Thin layer mortar is a pre-mixed cement-based product that only requires the addition of water to make an easily-applied mortar.

The benefits offered by thin layer mortars are provided by a system with many of the characteristics of traditional blockwork construction.

This means that familiarity with the build process and flexibility are also inherent in the system. 

Insulating Concrete Formwork

Insulating Concrete Formwork (ICF) systems consist of twin-walled, expanded polystyrene panels or blocks that are quickly built up to create formwork for the walls of a building.

This formwork is then filled with factory produced, quality assured, ready-mixed concrete to create a robust structure.

The expanded polystyrene blocks remain to provide high levels of thermal insulation and the concrete core provides robustness and good levels of sound insulation.

Precast Concrete Foundation

Precast concrete systems can be used to rapidly construct foundations.

The elements are usually to a bespoke design and cast in a factory environment, giving assured quality for the finished product.

The foundations are often supported by concrete piles and connected together.

These systems improve productivity, especially in adverse weather conditions, and reduces the amount of excavation required - particularly advantageous when dealing with contaminated ground.