Shoring

Shoring is ...

• a type of temporary structure

• constructed to strengthen building foundation

• for commencing building repair work

• for amending bulging of buckling wall

• hanging out by the beach

Types of shoring are ...

• Flying shores

• Landing shores

• Dead shores

• Live shores

• Raking shores

Which of the followings are Vertical shores

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Which of the followings are Horizontal shores

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Which of the followings are Raking shores

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Shores will relieve the load from building structures to enable them to be removed and repaired

• TRUE

• FALSE

• TREU

• FLASE

Which of the followings are suitable to be used in an urban congested area where space is limited

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Raking Shoring are placed at 3.0 to 4.5m c/c and can be of single, double, triple or multiple raker format.

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• FALSE

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Suitable materials for raking shores are timber, structural steel, concrete and framed tubular scaffolding.

• TRUE

• FALSE

• TREU

• FLASE

Flying shores should not go higher than 12m because that arrangement would become uneconomic.

• TRUE

• FALSE

• TREU

• FLASE