You'll be shown 12 questions, each with four possible answers. Try to guess which one is correct.
Excavators, in their many forms, probably _____________ one of the largest categories of machinery employed on construction sites.
Pumping equipment is necessary on sites so that excavations can _______________ free from excess water and reasonably dry working conditions be maintained.
The job of an estimator or a quantity surveyor is to ___________ bills of quantity and final accounts and work out exacly how much a construction will cost.
When a company or a country wants, say, an airport or a bridge or a hospital, they employ a ___________________ to design it and prepare all the plans.
Good quality concrete depends a great deal on certain basic measures ___________ duly implemented.
Concrete, by far the most utilised material in modern construction design, varies considrerably in quality, ____________ mainly on its basic ingredients.
Steel is ___________ the principal material providing the necessary stability in modern structures.
The Eiffel Tower and many well known long span bridges are large ____________ structures which are constructed almost entirely of steel.
In order to achieve the stability of a structure, all the active external forces and moments must be ________________ by the inner forces and moments of the structure itself.
A network plan is a logical schematic picture of a project ____________ by contractors to control as well to plan a contract.
Dams fall into two categories, namely those which prevent the sea, rivers or canals from flooding the adjoining land, and those which form impounding reservoirs in which water is stored for supply purposes and often for _____________ electricity.
A site administration conscious of safety usually produces an efficient and tidy site, on which everybody _____________ where everything is located and dangerous hazards are reduced to a minimum, if not eliminated.