Concrete Design

Many backyards have large landscaped lawns, but this can be boring if there is little visual appeal added to the yard such as concrete water fountains, which are regarded as quite aesthetically pleasing. While large lawns can look amazing when well taken care of but adding something extra to them can make your lawn the talk of the entire neighborhood. One of the more popular design items you can add to your lawn design plan is a concrete water fountain – they look amazing and are for the most part, low maintenance.

Lawn Shape and Concrete Water Fountains

If you have a perfectly square lawn, it is best to place a standing concrete fountain directly in the middle of the grass area. This can actually make your lawn look bigger, and it won’t interfere with anything else placed in your yard. Tall concrete fountains work best when placed inside of a square lawn, since they will actually work to extend your lawn and make it look even larger.

Structural Engineer

Engineers, by their very nature, are problem solvers. Most engineering jobs come with demands to apply creativity in a scientific manner, and engineers need to innovate day in and day out. However, while engineers always study innovations, the thought processes and techniques that are used to build innovations are rarely studied. Mastering lateral thinking processes is the key to being innovative, and this article gives you information on how to do that.

The creative thought process has been the subject of research and study for quite some time in other fields like marketing, but people in engineering jobs rarely understand its importance. According to Philip Kotler and Fernando Trias De Bes, "innovations are a result of connecting two ideas which, in principle, had no apparent or immediate connection." Innovations are as important to marketers as to engineers, since innovative new products and services provide the chance of creating new markets. The process of creating innovations involves focusing on an existing product and redesigning it to cover needs, situations, uses, or targets that are not currently covered.

While redesigning or innovating, an engineer has to focus on:

•How can the existing product be made more cost-effective?

•Which changes would increase the utility of the existing product?

•What are the features of competing products in the market?

•What new products can be derived from the current product?

•How can the product be changed to provide additional value?

To produce innovations from an existing product, an engineer needs to be creative, thinking about what to do with the product, where to start, how to go about it.

Structural

When buying and selling homes, the property purchase is often subject to a satisfactory home inspection being done. Now and then, a home inspection uncovers severe structural problems. Here’s an example of a situation in an upscale neighborhood.

Severe Structural Problems

Does the buyer walk away when there are serious structural problems? Yes, but not always. A lot depends on the constraints facing the buyer (are they relocating to start a new job, or just “moving up” in the same general area?) and on how much the buyer likes the property. The attitude, maturity level, communication skills, and flexibility of both buyer and seller also make a huge difference.

It’s easy to see a deal blowing up in this situation. Let me tell you about a situation I saw that actually worked out.

Structural Problems – Upscale Neighborhood

The first involved two professional couples and a house one couple wanted to sell and the other wanted to buy in an established, up-scale neighborhood. The house was a colonial style, all brick, very traditional house built about 15 years ago using top of the line materials. The kitchen and bathrooms had been modernized and upgraded within the past 3 years. Top of the line materials (marble, ceramic tile, and granite) were again used.

The house was located on an acre lot that sloped gently down to the street in the front. About 10 feet from the right side of the house, the lot sloped steeply away to a pretty stream. The lot backed to a treed area of a beautifully maintained, historic estate owned by a university and open to the public on a fee-paying basis.

Structural Engineering

Structural steel detailing is an essential part of any construction project. Be it a large commercial construction, residential housing, infrastructure development, steel detailing is important for the proper construction. Structural steel detailing here plays a crucial role to perform their tasks with ease.

It can be identified as a process for the construction of buildings or other structures. Steel detailing services provides optimum services for the institutions, commercial and industrial projects. Since our launch our services are designed to be customer focused.

Structural engineering needs large amount of planning and concentration. Structural / Civil Engineers deeply observe the situation and make a strategy to the structures strong enough to withstand pressures and other external forces. They plan it according to engineering mechanics and give these structures strong integrity and safety.

Some of the main areas of concern are:

• Stability against loads

• Reliability/Safety

• External forces

• Strength/Potential.

Our structural steel detailing services rang from structural drafting, shop drawings, 3D modeling services for building information modeling (BIM). They are familiar with international standards and codes in the discipline of structural engineering. We are offering high quality and faster structural steel detailing services, 3D modeling and BIM services which transfer in to the retention of clients.

With proper fabrication of the steel structure the construction is flawless. With meticulous planning of the steel structure and proper execution of the construction process, there is no chance of error in the construction. Therefore, there is hardly any need for rectification or reconstruction. So, it is quite evident that with an efficient steel detailer you not only get a flawless steel building but also save on cost and time involved in the construction process.

Steel Structural Design

A structural pallet rack is constructed out of structural steel and offers significant advantages over other forms of rack. Structural steel is made with reinforced channel corners and features thicker steel columns. In the event of an accidental collision, it can withstand far greater force of impact than rolled steel. Structural pallet racks also feature a much sturdier construction. They are bolted together and welded with AWS-certified criteria.

Three of our most popular designs are the SelecDeck, the Drive-In/Drive-Through, and the Glide-In “Push Back” systems.

SelecDeck Case Flow Systems
Typical gravity case pallet racks often present a number of challenges to smooth process flow. Their tracks and wheels will fall out, and the operation suffers downtime as crews scramble to implement repairs. The SelecDeck Structural pallet rack eliminates such problems with a superior case flow design that features a number of advantages over standard models.

For one thing, the wheels are much larger, wider, and stronger than traditional equivalents. Wheels are staggered within the wheel bed to create smoother flow and less carton damage. The axles are also designed differently. Steel shelf beams provide support to the entire module, making it more rigid and stable. Because wheel beds are customizable, there is a great deal more flexibility when slotting products. SelecDeck has no slotting limitations, so it is never necessary to add more tracks if the unit is re-profiled.

Drive In / Drive Through Structural Pallet Rack.
This is the favored rack design for warehouses that have to make use of every square inch of horizontal floor space and vertical cube space. Made completely from structural steel and featuring the innovative “Space-Saver Arm” design it provides the best in adjustability, durability, and safety required by heavy-duty Drive-In applications.