Material Selection and Storage Homework Assignment

This homework assignment addresses key aspects of material selection in construction, focusing on the economic and environmental factors influencing material choices. The assignment explores how material costs and availability, as well as climate considerations, impact decisions. It defines thermal capacity and discusses the durability of construction materials, including causes of deterioration like frost damage and microbiological growth. The solution also details safe methods for storing glass and stacking timber on construction sites, emphasizing safety and best practices. Finally, it outlines how organizational quality standards apply to material selection, ensuring that materials, products, practices, and services meet stakeholder expectations and mitigate project risks. The assignment references relevant literature to support the presented information.

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1. How economic factors affects selection of materials?
Economic factors can affect material selection. Some of the factors include material cost. The
cost of the material is one vital factor while selecting the material for building and construction
as eventually will lock the choice. Economically, the material ought to be naturally and easily
available. The convenience of availability chooses the material cost. Therefore it is essential to
think through this factor as the main one while selecting materials purposely for the engineering.
2. What are the environmental factors in building materials selection?
Environmental factors in building materials selection include temperatures range throughout the
year, snowfall or rain, seasons, sunlight amount, ventilation required and wind. Therefore, any
material chosen for construction is required to match with the climate. Whenever the picture of
climate comes in, the properties of materials comes in automatically.
3. What is does thermal capacity refer to?
Thermal capacity is the process in which a material or an object absorbs and takes in heat when
the object is heated and discharge heat when cooled (Binggeli, 2015, p. 316)
4. Durability of construction materials will be directly depend on exposure, but direct and
indirect causes of deterioration include?
Frost Damage
This is where an alternative component can influence deterioration and decline is frost. Stone-
made materials where buildings and constructions are in areas where the buildings are bare,
visible and exposed to cold temperatures and precipitation are usually vulnerable to this

destruction. (ssue 1588 of Farmers' bulletin, United States Department of Agriculture, 2012, p.
35) Frost destructs and destroys stones in tiny pores than it does those with bigger pores.
Microbiological Growth
Microbial growth is affected by various factors not only weather related factors. Life may
sometimes pill on buildings and constructions depending on the region the building took place
and the material type that was used in the construction of the building. (Cooper, 2017, p. 219)
Plants and plant roots, birds and microorganisms fasten the decay process of the building.
5. Describe a Safe method of storing glass on site?
The safety storage measures to be put in place includes:
o piling glass and other glass residues at a right and safe angle
o Ensuring the correct protective gears and equipment’s for the personnel in equation
o Safeguarding storage racks and ensuring no loaded
8. How should you stack and store timber on site?
It is important that timber and board materials are safely stacked and stored. This includes
making sure that the timber stacks:
o are on a fit and strong level ground
o don't surpass the set heights ratio
o are regularly inspected
o have no materials on top that are loose (Hawkins, 2016, p. 70)
9. How organization quality standards apply to the selection of materials?
Quality standards are documents that make available the requirements, conditions, guiding
principles, or characteristics and features that can be consistently used to ensure materials,

products, practices, and services are purposely fit. (Budinski & Budinski, 2014, p. 404)
Standards make available to organizations the shared vision, procedures, understanding, and
vocabulary required to meet the anticipations of the stakeholders. In any project to be
constructed, there is an involved risk. The quality assurance system of a contractor is crucial in
avoiding problems and their reoccurrences. (Management, 2015, p. 234)

References
Binggeli, C., 2015. Building Systems for Interior Designers. 3rd ed. Chicago: John Wiley & Sons.
Budinski, K. G. & Budinski, M. K., 2014. Engineering Materials. 6th ed. London: Prentice Hall.
Cooper, S., 2017. Bacterial Growth and Division: Biochemistry and Regulation of Prokaryotic and
Eukaryotic Division Cycles. 5th ed. Texas: Elsevier.
Hawkins, E., 2016. Basic Building and Construction Skills. 4th ed. Texas: Cengage AU.
Management, I. o. L. &., 2015. Managing the Efficient Use of Materials. 5th ed. London: Routledge.
ssue 1588 of Farmers' bulletin, United States Department of Agriculture, 2012. Frost and the Prevention
of Frost Damage. 2nd ed. London: U.S. Department of Agriculture.