A PAPER ON DESIGN OF FORMWORK

Abstract

Construction is one of the important parts of Indian budget and is an essential part of the development. Today India’s urban population is the second major in the world and its upcoming development leads to increased demand for housing to cope with this problem India should very much need to plan for acquisition of land and rapid creation of dwelling units. Construction is a complex process involving basically the areas of Architectural planning, Engineering & Construction. Formwork is an open container, like open box into which concrete is poured and compacted. When the concrete is set, then the formwork is removed and a solid mass is produced in shape of inner part of formwork. Formwork systems are among the key factors determining the success of a construction project in terms of quality, quantity, labor, time and cost. The purpose of this paper is to identify the various factors that influence formwork efficiency. Formwork is one of the extreme significant factors in determining the achievement of a construction project in terms of speed, quality cost and security of work as it accounts about 35% of the total project cost of the structure. To minimize the costs the contractor needs to complete the project as soon as possible and the consumer wants the building to use the building as early as possible for the intended purpose. In high rise building construction the most effective way to speed up the work is by achieving a very tiny floor cycle. That directly depends on the selected form work type for the construction. With the advancement of the science man used plywood in its place of timber planks and pipe supports with various kinds of jacks instead of timber supports. Then the man invented small units of formworks when the same structure is restating such as slab forms, flying forms for the walls etc. lastly the utmost invention came for the complete system. At the beginning the system was made out of steel and which was very heavy. Then the man paid his care towards reducing the weight of the formwork system.