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    Home Buidling Q&A
    Home Buidling Q&A
    Home Buidling Q&A
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    Home Buidling Q&A

    By Dr. Mohamed A. El-Reedy

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    Building your home can be very easy and less cost if you will do it in proper way. There are lots of questions in your mind when you start to build your home, as it is unique step in your life journey. You will hear a lot of terminology from the consultant and the contractor and you need to know exactly what he needs as it reflect to a money at the end. I try to collect all the questions that i receive from engineers, owners contractors and from Quora also. I answer it in simple way ther are many qustions such as how can i calculate the amout of steel, the quantity of cement what i need to follow it up and what i need to avoid. How can i calculate the cost and what is the best deal with the consultant and contractor and how i can mange it properly, in addition to technical issue in selecting the members, the best layout by rule of thumb. It will be helpful for owner. junior engineer from consultant and contractor side and really for engineers in other discipline rather than structure engineering. This book will cover wood, concrete and steel structure. The target is to do the actvities with lowest cost and highest value and maintain durability for your building along its life time. This Q&A book will cover all stages from choose the land until occuping the house.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDr. Mohamed A. El-Reedy
    Release dateMar 4, 2019
    ISBN9780463148235
    Home Buidling Q&A
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    Dr. Mohamed A. El-Reedy

    Mohamed A. El-Reedy's background in structural engineering. His main area of researches is reliability of concrete and steel structure. He has provided consulting to different engineering companies and oil and gas industries in Egypt and to international companies as the International Egyptian Oil Company (IEOC) and British Petroleum (BP). Moreover, he provides different concrete and steel structure design package for residential buildings, warehouses and telecommunication towers and electrical projects with WorleyParsons Egypt. He has participated in Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) and Natural Gas Liquid (NGL) projects with international engineering firms. Curently, Dr. El-Reedy is responsible for reliability, Inspection and maintenance strategy for onshore concrete structures and offshore steel structure platforms. He has performed these tasks for hundred structures in Gulf of Suez in the red sea.Dr. El-Reedy has consulted with and trained executives at many organizations, including the Arabian American Oil Compnay (ARAMCO), bp, Apachi, Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company (ADMA), the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company and King Saudi's Interior ministry, Qatar Telecom, EGPC , (SAPIC) , the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, and Qatar petrochemical Company (QAPCO). He has taught technical courses about repair and maintenance for reinforced concrete structures and the advanced materials in concrete industry worldwide , especially in the Middle East, malaysia and singapore.Dr. El-Reedy has written numerous publications and presented many papers at local and international conferences sponsored by the ASCE, CSCE, ACI, API and in technical committe for OMAE conference sponsor by ASME.He has published many research papers in international technical journals and has authored four books about total quality management, quality management and quality assurance, economic management for engineering projects, and repair and protection of reinforced concrete structures. He received his bachelor's degree from Cairo University in 1990, his master's degree in 1995, and his Ph.D from Cairo University in 2000.

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      Home Buidling Q&A - Dr. Mohamed A. El-Reedy

      Build Your Home Q&A

      Mohamed A. El-Reedy, Ph.D

      Consultant Engineer

      2019 by Mohamed A. El-Reedy

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      This book is dedicated to the spirits of my mother and father,

      To my wife, and my children Maey, Hisham, and Mayar.

      Preface

      As per Quora site I see many questions raised from owner, engineers and contractors; who is working in building industry or the owner who need to build his home. I try to cover all these questions that raise in your mind from practical point of view with references.

      This book is prepared to whom know nothing about engineering science. It is just a guideline with questions and answers.

      This book is not a book on the shelf or in your computer for one read only but it is a dynamic book as it will be a free webinars about the topics of this book regular every month. In addition to that this book will be updated every year so you will receive free updated for this book. To register for the webinar or the free updated of the book just or have any specific question send an email to me ([email protected]. If you have any inquiry, you contact through the website www.elreedyman.com

      Author

      Mohamed A. El-Reedy’s background in structural engineering. His main area of researches is reliability of concrete and steel structure. He has provided consulting to different engineering companies and oil and gas industries in Egypt and to international companies as the International Egyptian Oil Company (IEOC) and British Petroleum (BP). Moreover, he provides different concrete and steel structure design package for residential buildings, warehouses and telecommunication towers and electrical projects with WorleyParsons Egypt. He has participated in Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and Natural Gas Liquid (NGL) projects with international engineering firms. Currently, Dr. El-Reedy is responsible for reliability, Inspection and maintenance strategy for onshore concrete structures and offshore steel structure platforms. He has performed these tasks for hundred structures in the red sea.

      Dr. El-Reedy has consulted with and trained executives at many organizations, including the Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO), bp, Apachi, Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company (ADMA), the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company and King Saudi’s Interior ministry, Qatar Telecom, the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation , Saudi Arabia basic Industries Corporation (SAPIC) , the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, and Qatar petrochemical Company (QAPCO). He has taught technical courses about repair and maintenance for reinforced concrete structure and the advanced materials in concrete industry worldwide , especially in the Middle East.

      Dr. El-Reedy has written numerous publications and presented many papers at local and international conferences sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Concrete Institute, the American Society for Testing and Materials, and the American Petroleum Institute. He has published many research papers in international technical journals and has authored four books about total quality management, quality management and quality assurance, economic management

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