THE STEEL DETAILER - THE FOUNDATION UPON WHICH STRUCTURES ARE BUILT
Real estate is one of the biggest and most lucrative industries currently, what with the need for individuals/groups to find a space of their own in today's ever-expanding world.
By extension, construction has also become a big part of this process, and such is the demand to complete high-end work in today's world that different agencies are willing to bid the highest amount for a particular project. This means that construction firms now play a vital role in ensuring that building of any structure goes off smoothly, sans hitches or incidents.
This, in turn, means the need for experienced and smart project managers, structural engineers and architects has become a highly important tool. However, the most important task arguably is that of the steel detailers', who takes inputs from both the engineers and architects to make a blueprint of how the structure should be built, inside out. This process is known as steel detailing, and this is what we will look at in some detail here.
Such has been the impact of the real estate industry that it contributes to almost 4 percent of the total world output, with the total global property value coming up to $217 trillion by 2015 end. 75 percent of this is made up of residential property. For those interested, the world economy had a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) output of $80 trillion in the same timeframe.
In the Indian context, the real estate domain is the 2nd largest employer after agriculture and is scheduled to develop exponentially over the next ten years approximately. The real estate market of Indian is projected to reach $180 billion by the year 2020. The housing sector itself forms around 6 percent of the country's GDP.