Last edited 05 Dec 2019
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.