Found 15 Articles for Architecture & Infrastructure

What are wooden skyscrapers?

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Updated on 30-Jul-2019 22:30:24

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Skyscrapers are the tall building structures found mostly in cities. These tall structures that are being built using cement and concrete are recently adding the oldest constructional material, “timber” to them. The wood of timber is also called Lumber, which was mostly used by our ancestors. Such structures are called Wooden skyscrapers or Wood scrapers or even Plyscrapers.Wood ScrapersThe timber wood was previously used for constructing structural applications such as beams, walls, doors, floors, formwork, and panels. The recent engineers are again after this material, to construct huge structures using concrete jointed timber frames that support the buildings with great ... Read More

Where is the world's biggest mobile factory located?

Pinki Rao
Updated on 30-Jul-2019 22:30:24

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What? Anything big can’t be in India! Well, apart from being one of the tops in some shameful aspects like population, poverty, filth, crime, etc. there are a few areas where we excel as well. Like this one. Yes, the largest cellphone factory is located in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. Recently inaugurated by PM Modi, the factory belongs to the smartphone giant Samsung. This establishment will have the capacity of manufacturing 120 million phones a year including low-end smartphones to flagship phones. About 10 million phones will be fabricated per month and out of that 70 percent will be earmarked for ... Read More

What are Pagoda’s and why they were built?

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Updated on 30-Jul-2019 22:30:24

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According to the ancient traditions prevailing in the countries like Nepal, China, Japan, Vietnam, Korea, Myanmar, India, Srilanka and other parts of Asia, tiered towers are built with multiple eaves, which are called as Pagodas.These are used as the places of worship by Taoists and Buddhists while they also perform some religious functions and gatherings in these tower structures.Buddhist StructuresIt all started in the 3rd century when a dome-shaped monument “The Stupa”, was built as a monument of commemoration and to store sacred relics. These towers can be solid or hollow but usually built using stone, brick or wood.These Pagodas ... Read More

What is the Airport Service Quality (ASQ) ranking of Kempegowda International Airport?

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Updated on 30-Jul-2019 22:30:24

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The Kempegowda International Airport, shortly known as KIA of Bangalore which has been widely applauded as a high-flyer International Airport having considerable passenger growth for 2017, this has also got another feather in its crown now.KIA has bagged the second place in Airport service quality (ASQ) rankings, as reported by Airports Council International (ACI).Who Ranks Them?ACI is a trade association of the world’s airports. They collect data from the customers of all airports, over the course of the year in a worldwide program of evaluating airports depending on the customer feedback. According to the feedbacks, 34 key performance factors, such ... Read More

What are differences between a gated community and an apartment?

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Updated on 30-Jul-2019 22:30:24

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Gated Community is the word which has been popularized recently. People are expressing interest because of the differences these Gated communities have with the normal apartments.ApartmentsApart from buildings, an apartment is the single flat or unit, a self-contained housing unit that occupies only one part of the building, normally a single one. In a building, many individual houses live in one vicinity together where they share a common parking area or cellar and a common terrace as well.Gated CommunityA Gated community is a group of such apartments which is gated as one. It feels there is a small town inside ... Read More

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