Material “strength” is resisting stress and bending before breaking.

The Architect is the primary lead and coordinator of all design functions and responsible for their engineers and consultants performance.

Traditionally the Architect selects the Primary Engineers and Consultants and includes them in their services proposal to the Owner for approval.

The consultant’s most important asset is their computer system.

You obtain information on an engineer’s capabilities for consideration in hiring for your team by reviewing their responses to a Request for Qualifications (RFQ).

Specifications are the written text that are joined with the construction drawings and define the quality level and standards to be meet during construction.

There are 14 divisions to the new 2004 CSI format.

ASTM stands for “American Society for Testing and Materials.”

In the image above related to retaining walls which one is a representative of failure in "horizontal movement"?

A primary objective in foundation design is minimizing differential settlement.

Identify the Substructure portion of the building as shown in the sketch above.

Identify the proper cross section for a driven concrete pile on the drawing above.

White cement is a form of color pigment is an "additive" to concrete mixes giving a whiter finished appearance.

White concrete has twice the reflectivity of gray concrete in normal conditions and three times that in evening and wet conditions.