Importance of Waterproofing for Building structures:

    Water an element of universe which is creator & destroyer to most of the things within this glove. The significant use of Water could create the things beautifully else can destroy on other hand.

A good example to this is when an artist creates a sculpture made from plaster of Paris or unfired clay the water plays significant role in getting the sculpture erected; higher content of the water can also erode the sculpture.

Same is the story with the building structures. The integrity & life of any structure is directly proportional to the water ingress in form of moisture, rain or water vapors.

    The Term Waterproofing is associated with many processes but by far been commonly known for the structures. The structures are designed by Architects, the feasibility of the same is been verified by Structural consultants and crafted by Engineers & contractors.

These activities are human driven and have chances of a few flaws however the rectification of flaw on detection is the scope of contractor except then the flaw is encountered in the design or instruction implementation.

   Managing timeline in construction is one of the tedious tasks as the coordination with multiple party is involved in giving final shape to the structure. Equally the task of maintaining the moisture penetration is. Moisture penetration is also called as Seepage or dampness. The unnecessary moisture may effectively result in Leakage within the structure.

Before digging deeper, let’s understand what this Leakage / Seepage can do to the structure.

What Water leakage does to structures:

   Water Leakage in any structure is potential threat to the integrity & stability of the structure. The Water Leakage is termed as the presence of Higher amount of moisture or water content resulting in dripping, dampening of the structure.

   We all know the structure needs reinforcement while erecting. The types of materials used for erecting a structure includes:

1. Bricks
2. Wood
3. Stone
4. Metal Sheets
5. Concrete

   The above mentioned are erecting members, but they can’t erect the structure without an important structural member called Reinforcement.

The reinforcement for construction includes:

1. Wood
2. Steel

The reason wood & steel are used as reinforcement because of their exceptional capacity to undergo a limit of stress without bending or cracking failure. Both wood and steel acts as reinforcement and have serious threat of the getting damaged because of constant contact with water.

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