Pre-cast Concrete, a Key Option for the Reconstruction Phase after War. (2017) - Ahmed, Sonia
Abstract: These days Syria is concerned in the development of integrated strategy, starting with a provision of regional, structural and organizational planning for the affected areas, followed by the architectural and construction and environmental studies, etc. This strategy is achieved through the preparation of detailed plans and programs necessary for the implementation of public and private projects that achieve the objective of development and reconstruction. This study includes a range of plans that must overlaps and integrates with each other to produce reconstruction operations. Work team must be involved in the implementation of these plans. The work team composed of officials and experts, technicians and consultants, and bound together through a flexible structure consisted of a group of sub-committees that are related to a higher body for reconstruction. In the stage of the housing plan, researches were done in order to assess the reality of the construction of buildings in Syria, and compared with the concepts and the construction industry characteristics (IBS), and determine the Syrian experiment site regarding to these concepts, as well as evaluating the factors affecting this industry, and proposals to apply it in reconstruction stage. Cast-in-place concrete in the case of the reinforced walls, got 13.1%, while in the case of the framework structure was 34%, and templates tunnelling was 64%, composite order (pre-cast and Cast-in-place concrete) was 61%, composite order (concrete and metallic) was 67.25%, and the pre-cast concrete was from 82% up to 86%. The questionnaire also shows that the trend towards a modern building industry faces significant challenges in spite of its inevitability as a strategic decision in finding solutions to the problems of housing and reconstruction. The research arranged the priority use of technical systems in construction in Syria, using the method of AHP. The advanced technology system (pre-cast concrete) had the first place with 39.4%.