Monday, November 26, 2007

Service life of brick buildings

Potential service life of the structural frame of a building will be 200 years for brick/block/concrete and perhaps only 75-100 years for lightweight framing/SIPs panel.

In UK, service lives required for each building type or sector could be
· office - 20 years
· domestic - 200 years
· education - 60 years
· healthcare - 50 years
· retail and warehouse - 10 years

Stone is the building material which lasts longest.

Higher education in Saudi and Saudi students in western universities funded by government scholarships

Since the 1940s, Saudi Arabia has funded large-scale government scholarships for students to study abroad, significantly expanded in 2005 un...