Capacity
The word ‘capacity’ refers to the maximum amount that can be produced, contained or accepted by a component or system.
In the construction industry, the word ‘capacity’ might refer to:
- Occupant capacity of a building or space.
- Heat capacity.
- Loadbearing capacity or bearing capacity.
- The maximum capacity of a product or system such as a road or rail network, heating system, battery, data storage system and so on.
- The capacity of an organisation such as a supplier to take on and complete a piece of work. This will be dependent on the availability of appropriate staff, equipment and other resources, other work that the organisation is undertaking and so on.
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- Bearing capacity.
- Crop-adjusted available water capacity.
- Heat capacity.
- Human resource management in construction.
- Loadbearing capacity
- Occupant capacity of a building or space.
- Resource leveling.
- Resource management.
- Scheduling construction activities.
- Storage.
- Time management of construction projects.
- Time management.
- Time-location chart.
- Transformation capacity.
- Volume.
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