Reservoirs have the potential for a variety of uses, including water supply for irrigation and domestic
use, flood control and water power, but they are susceptible to filling with sediment due to erosion in
the ...
Proper and sufficient urban drainage structure is very essential in one city like Woldiya town in
order to protect road infrastructure, public and private properties and even societies life’s.
Woldiya town ...
Evaluation of farm irrigation system plays a fundamental role in improving surface irrigation and
in providing information used to advice irrigators how to improve their system operation. Furrow
irrigation is one of ...
Volume-changing soils are among the most challenging geomaterials commonly met
on the planet during infrastructural development. This study investigates the change
in the geotechnical and microstructural characteristics ...
The soil has many engineering properties in its natural state. These properties,
however, can be altered to meet desired standards by combining the soil with certain
materials. The combined effect of rice ...
In Woreta-Debre Tabor road section part of Woreta-Woldia link road there is around
400 m section of the road which is un-surfaced from construction period up to know
due to instability problems happened during ...
Potentially expansive soils can be found almost anywhere in the world. The Presence of swelling
soils under the foundations of civil engineering structures particularly, lightly loaded structures
has caused serious ...
The California Bearing Ratio (CBR) has long been recognized as an important
parameter for determining the bearing capacity of earth structures. The aim of this
research is to develop the ...
Soil stabilization is given more emphasis in order to enhance the geotechnical characteristics of
expansive clay to meet technical requirements in the building sector. The additives selected for
this project are ...
Concrete plays a vital role as a construction material in the world. However, the production of
cement is one of the environmentally unfriendly processes due to the release of CO2 gas to the
atmosphere. In addition ...
Construction industry in Ethiopia is one of the most labour intensive industries; however, in
adequate attention is given to the human resource management issues. Without having skilled
manpower, the ...
The previous researchers indicate that cost of equipment in civil engineering projects
varies from 25 to 40% of the total cost of the project. Inadequate management
practices of construction equipment and ...
The importance of small and micro-construction companies in Ethiopia has been
recognized by many researchers and policymakers. The contribution of small contractors
to the creation of jobs and to the alleviation ...
The construction of different infrastructures like buildings, bridges, roadways, and
railways is increasing from time to time in the construction industry. To fulfill this
construction demand, a large amount ...
Construction cost overrun is a major problem faced by the construction project in the world and it
needs serious attention to improve. Many projects experience cost and thereby exceed initial
contract amount. ...
In Ethiopia, many constructional exercises are finished by utilizing the old convectional
cast-in-situ method. But the current technology shows various priorities of precast
constructional strategy over the ...
Concrete is frequently utilized for both structural and nonstructural constructions, such
as buildings, bridges, water tanks, pavements, pipes, tiles, and other similar
undertakings since one of its ingredients, ...
Construction industry in Ethiopia is growing fast, but also has problems like time overrun, cost
overrun and productivity problems in many of the projects. In construction projects the resources
used in construction ...
The idea of lean thinking in construction project is to minimize waste, improve
communication among the stakeholders and encourage teamwork as well as
integration through a common set of tools ...
Hydrological alterations were happening globally because anthropogenic effects like land
use changes by the conversion of lands to industrial areas, urbanization and agricultural
lands. The main objective of this study ...