CONSTRUCTION TECHNLOGY 1

Tutorial 1Group members: Adam Wong

Jason Wong Lee Xin Ying

Michelle Tung

Syasya

TOOLS

Hammer

• A tool has heavy metal head attached to a handle• Used for hitting nails, fit parts or break things

apart.• Vary in shape, size and structure which depends

on their purposes

Claw

Hand Saw

• Consisting of a tough blade• Used to cut through hard materials

most often wood and metal• Operated using a backward and

forward movement

Screwdriver

• A tool used for turning screws• Inserts into the screw head

and turn to lock things• Shaft made out of tough steel

to resist bending or twisting

Pliers

• Small pincers with long jaws for bending wire or holding small object

• Also used to cut wire

Tape Measure• A flexible ruler• A long, thin piece of metal that is mark

with units of length (such as inches & centimeters)

• Used for measuring things

EQUIPMENTS

Concrete mixer

• It is a device that used to combine cement, aggregate such as sand or gravel and water to form concrete

• Its small volume design allows the workers to have ample time to use the concrete before it hardens.

Spraying and plastering

equipments

• It is an equipment specially design to speed up the plastering process in compare to the traditional hand float method.

• There’s two type of plastering equipments; one is worm-drive pump and another is piston pump.

Electric hand drill

• An electric hand drill helps the worker to speed up the screwing process and also allows him to have different variable of using different types of screw head/size easily.

•  It can be found in either a portable type or connecting to a power supply type.

Rebar bender

• Its main function is to bend all the straight rebar into the desired shape

• It can be found in two form, manual and in machine.

Wood Saw

• It is commonly used to saw large pieces of wood into smaller desired size and shape.

• Most of the time the wood sawed are for the purpose of forming a formwork model for all the elements such as beam and column.

MACHINERIES

ExcavatorFunction :• Earth digging• Loading and dumping trucks• Trenching• Excavating under water

Backhoe LoaderLoader :• to cover up dirt when filling

in trench lines• to pick up and carry large

amounts of loose material

Bucket :• use for grading and

scratching off sand• digging water pipes and

sewer pipes

Grader• bank sloping and ditching• crowning and leveling roads• maintenance of roads and runways• moving large amounts of materials laterally

by side casting• mixing and spreading materials• snow  removal• scarifying.

Bulldozer• Use to push large quantities

of soil, sand, rubber, or other such material during construction or conversion work

• Typically equipped at the rear with a claw-like device to loosen densely compacted materials

Scraper

Moving earth over short distances (up to about two miles) over relatively smooth areas

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