Construction methods
Construction methods are the procedures and techniques that are used during the building process.
Designing Buildings Wiki has many articles on different types of construction method:
- Advanced construction technology
- Arches
- Assembly
- Base construction
- Basement excavation
- Barrel vault
- Blockwork
- Brick
- Braced frame structures
- Bridge construction
- Building an extension
- Building fabric
- Building foundations
- Building technology
- Cantilever
- Cement
- Cladding for buildings
- Concrete
- Concrete-steel composite structures
- Curtain wall systems
- Diaphragm wall
- Domestic roofs
- Driven piles
- Enabling works for construction
- Fit out of buildings
- Flooring
- Flying buttress
- Folded plate construction
- Footings in foundations
- Formwork
- Glazing
- Ground anchor
- Groundworks
- Long span roof
- Masonry
- Modern methods of construction
- Modular vs traditional construction
- Mortar
- Partition wall
- Pile foundations
- Portal frame
- Prefabrication
- Rebar
- Renovation v refurbishment v retrofit
- Retaining walls
- Solid wall insulation
- Stairs
- Structural steelwork
- Substructure
- Superstructure
- Temporary works for construction
- Timber
- Types of brick bonding
- Types of ceiling
- Types of dome
- Underpinning
- Ventilation
- Wall types
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Comments
We hope to build our house in a modern technic style. Could you clarify the best economical way to construct our house.
Reply: This will depend on your location, the materials available, land costs and the cost of labour. Best to speak to a few architects and builders to get a good idea.