The document discusses various modern construction technologies including concrete walls and floors, precast cladding panels, 3D volumetric modules, twin wall technology, flat slabs, thin joint masonry, insulating concrete formwork, and precast concrete foundations. These technologies aim to reduce costs and construction time while improving quality, through the use of prefabricated concrete elements constructed in a controlled factory environment and assembled on site.

1. Seminar Guest lecture
Presentation
AMITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING

2. Modern Construction Technology
 Modern Construction
Technology is the process of
preparing for and
forming buildings and building
systems.
 The process of building large
structures with the minimum
use of cost , time and
environment.
 Construction starts with
planning, design, and
financing and continues until
the structure is ready for
occupancy.

3. Concrete walls and floors
 Concrete walls is an
eclectic category with
options for everything like
seat walls; decorative
interior or exterior finishes;
sound walls that abut a
freeway; retaining walls to
hold back the earth; to the
very walls that comprise
the exterior.

4.  Concrete has become the
new flooring material of the
latest technology.
 Whether it's acid-stained,
painted, overlays,
microtoppings, radiant
floors, or a unique personal
floor, concrete floors offer a
range unlike any other
material
 Concrete flooring,
sometimes referred to as
cement flooring.

5.  One of the major benefits of
concrete floors is their
affordability compared to
other flooring options.
 concrete flooring is ease of
maintenance.
 When properly sealed
concrete floors can be cleaned
with a quick pass of a dust
mop.

6. Precast cladding panels
 Cladding is the application of
one material over another to
provide skin or layer intended to
control the infiltration of weather
elements, or for aesthetic
purposes
 Cladding does not necessarily
have to provide
a waterproof condition but is
instead a control element.
 This control element may only
serve to safely direct water or
wind in order to control run-
off and prevent infiltration into
the building structure.

7. Precast flat panel system
 Floor and wall units are produced
off-site in a factory and erected
on-site to form robust structures,
ideal for all repetitive cellular
projects.
 Panels can include services,
windows, doors and finishes.
 Building envelope panels with
factory fitted insulation and
decorative cladding can also be
used as load-bearing elements.
 This offers factory quality and
accuracy, together with speed of
erection on-site.

8. 3D Volumetric Modules
 3D Volumetric construction (also known as
modular construction) involves the
production of three-dimensional units in
controlled factory conditions prior to
transportation to site.
 Modules can be brought to site in a variety
of forms, ranging from a basic structure to
one with all internal and external finishes
and services installed, all ready for
assembly.
 The casting of modules uses the benefits
of factory conditions to create service-
intensive units where a high degree of
repetition and a need for rapid assembly
on-site make its use highly desirable.

9. Twin wall Technology
 Twin wall construction is a walling system that
combines the speed of erection and quality of
precast concrete with the structural integrity of
in-situ concrete to provide a hybrid solution.
 Twin wall is an adaptable wall system that
provides the speed and quality of precast
concrete with the structural and waterproof
reliability .
 The prefabricated panels comprise two slabs
separated and connected by cast-in lattice
girders.
 The units are placed, temporarily propped,
then joined by reinforcing and concreting the
cavity on site.
 Twin wall is usually employed in association
with precast flooring systems.

10. Flat Slabs
 Flat slabs are highly versatile
elements widely used in
construction, providing minimum
depth, fast construction and
allowing flexible column grids.
 Flat slabs are particularly appropriate
for areas where tops of partitions
need to be sealed to the slab soffit
for acoustic or fire reasons.
 Flat slabs are considered to be
faster and more economic than
other forms of construction.

11.  Flat slabs can be designed with
a good surface finish to the
soffit, allowing exposed soffits
to be used.
 This allows exploitation of the
building’s thermal mass in the
design of heating, ventilation
and cooling requirements,
increasing energy efficiency.

12. Thin Joint Masonry
 Thin joint blockwork (thin joint masonry) is
a fast, clean, accurate system for
construction using autoclaved
aerated concrete blocks of close
dimensional tolerance with 2mm-
3mm mortar joints.
 Thin layer mortar is a pre-mixed cement-
based product that only requires the
addition of water to make an easily-
applied mortar.
 The benefits offered by thin layer
mortars are provided by a system
with many of the characteristics of
traditional blockwork construction.
 This means that familiarity with the
build process and flexibility are also
inherent in the system.

13. Insulating Concrete Formwork
 Insulating Concrete Formwork
(ICF) systems consist of twin-
walled, expanded polystyrene
panels or blocks that are quickly
built up to create formwork for
the walls of a building.
 This formwork is then filled with
factory produced, quality assured,
ready-mixed concrete to create a
robust structure.
 The expanded polystyrene blocks
remain to provide high levels of
thermal insulation and the
concrete core provides robustness
and good levels of sound
insulation.

14. Precast Concrete Foundation
 Precast concrete systems can be used to
rapidly construct foundations.
 The elements are usually to a bespoke
design and cast in a factory
environment, giving assured quality for
the finished product.
 The foundations are often supported by
concrete piles and connected together.
 These systems improve productivity,
especially in adverse weather
conditions, and reduces the amount of
excavation required - particularly
advantageous when dealing with
contaminated ground.