Load bearing masonry wall construction / Nur Fakhira Mohd Allif Effendy

Construction is the process of constructing a building or infrastructure. Therefore, this repo1t will be discuss about load bearing masonry wall construction. This study is carried out at Sungai Yu, Tanjung Karang, Kuala Selangor which is construct for low cost 500 residential units house under the People's Housing Programme (PPR). There are many type of load bearing masonry wall. However, from this repo1t we just focus on the reinforced concrete masonry wall type. The objectives are to know how the wall construct based on the requirement method. Reinforced concrete masonry wall must be construct with steel reinforcement to provide the tensile and bending strength and improves the compressive strength. Moreover, mortar is used to fill the gaps between to seal each of block. Failure to follow the method will cause the defect on the building. Crack on the wall, floor repair work not done properly and also hole between the gap of block are the illustrated of the defect on the wall.