Sarvesh D Khanna
Gujarat Technological University, Civil Engineering, Undergraduate
Formwork systems can play a vital role in the success of a construction project in terms of time, quality construction and economy. Clients demand their project to be completed as early as possible and at a minimum cost. For a... more
Formwork systems can play a vital role in the success of a construction project in terms of time, quality construction and economy. Clients demand their project to be completed as early as possible and at a minimum cost. For a multi-storied building, the most efficient way to speed up the work is to complete RCC framework for typical floors of the structure in the shortest possible time. Authors conducted a questionnaire-based survey in Surat city. Thestudyaimedto understand the intervention that prevails for not implementing the aluminium formwork technique in place of the conventional ones. The most used formwork system in the city for high-rise residential construction was a combination of timber & steel with 37.60% usage while the least used was aluminium formwork with merely a 2.7% of usage.
