Level of motorization and travel demand in Bahirdar city is increasing rapidly with its population. Providing effective parking areas for the vehicles is a fundamental part of transportation. The road facilities in Bahirdar ...
Sustainability assessment is one of the critical issues for urban water supply system and it is included in the second growth transformation plan of Ethiopia. Recently Bahir Dar city has passed through various social and ...
Despite bicycling is fun, healthy, economical, efficient, and considered as one of a sustainable mode of transport, in Bahir Dar, the level of use of bicycle decreases time to time due to the existence of different barriers ...
Despite the fact that there are two perennial rivers in shelaha woreda, governments as well as community did not start on the implementation of irrigation project in the river catchments. As a result, people living in ...
Various studies have shown that the properties of mineral fillers have significant effect on the performance of asphalt concrete pavements. This study was intended to investigate the effect of different content of mineral ...
Concrete is a material often used in the construction of high rise buildings, railroad and road tunnel constructions. There is an important problem influence of high temperatures on concrete that affects serviceability and ...
Agriculture, the back bone of Ethiopian economy, is reliant on a highly variable rainfall which renders the sector to be hampered by recurrent drought. The declining productivity in rain fed agriculture and the need to ...
The quantitative determination of the available water resource provides very important information for practical strategies of managing the water resources. However, very little is known about the quantitative representation ...
Efforts made so far to improve the existing water supply situation have been threatened by multiple interlinked factors. Knowledge of the problems of rural water supply and communities‟ management can help improving the ...
Reinforced concrete structures are mostly subjected to loads causing the structure to displace laterally some amount of displacement called story drifts. Those loads may be mainly caused by earthquakes, wind or due to ...
An asset is a result of a certain effort that brought about a use value to an individual,
organization, community or society. The use value can be expressed either in monetary terms or
equivalent benefits that the user ...
Soil and water conservation structures (SWCS) can influence the amount of sediment yield leaving from a catchment. The extent of this influence depends heavily on hydro-climatic conditions in the upstream catchments. This ...
The most important and frequently encountered combination of construction materials is steel and concrete. The use of composite structures in multistory buildings and high-way bridges becomes wide spread practice. Shear ...
Energy crisis has emerged as a serious issue in developing countries. Ethiopia facing similar crisis that has resulted infrequent power failures and load shedding throughout the country for past several years. Identification ...
The research is mainly determining the degree of expansiveness and shrinkage swell characteristics of soils in some areas of Amhara region.
Accordingly, several data were taken from design office and from theses that ...
In the last four to five decades piled raft foundations has been successfully applied in different parts of the world for optimization of civil engineering structure foundations. This thesis is an extension of research ...
Traditional on-site construction, as a common method, has been criticized because of its inherent drawbacks; such as, long construction time, low productivity, weather sensitivity, wastage of resource, environmental ...
It is everyone’s interest to use locally available sand for concrete production. However, the sand sources around Bahir Dar contain a high amount of silt than limited by codes as not to exceed 5%. The silt causes a reduction ...
Expansive soils, such as black cotton soils, are basically susceptible to detrimental volumetric changes, with changein moisture content. The cyclic wetting and drying process causes vertical movements in expansive soils ...
Irrigation development has been identified as an important tool to stimulate economic growth and rural development, and is considered as a cornerstone of food security and poverty reduction in Ethiopia. While a lot of ...