Oakland an overview:

Oakland was founded in the year of 1852. It is an American city that lies on the eastern shore of the San Francisco bay in northern California. According to the latest 2000 US census the city has a population of 399,484 which makes it the third most populated town in the region of San Francisco. The city including the rest of the US experienced a major boom in the economic sector mainly by the post war recoveries, the discoveries of oil fields in the adjacent city of Los Angeles and by the wide introduction of automobiles in those times. The city records an average annual temperature of 55F or 13C. The average annual rainfall is 23 inches and most the precipitation is found to occur in the months of November to March.

Construction overviews in Oakland:

Oakland is a place that has some thing for everyone form museums to large sky scrapers and theatres. In a city of such a diversified culture and population it a quite normal that construction is also very much diversified. The growing population of the city has added to a considerable hike in the construction particularly in the private sector along with construction of roads, streets, pavements, houses and the like. However repetitive city construction and planning has resulted in the demolition of some of the old buildings in Oakland. At present most of the houses and building patterns are of modern type excluding a few old museums and other prominent historical structures.

Curbing architecture in Oakland:

Most of the curbing work in Oakland are associated with the roads and are mostly of concrete type. In Oakland most of the road curbing work is done by concrete extruding machine. On an average basis the process of installation takes about 1 to 7 days depending upon the type and footage of the installation. However in most roads curbing that is being constructed so far only reinforced fibers and RCC has been used. But one basic problem that is related with then concrete type of curbing is that most often they break due to extremities in the climatic conditions. For this reason the city planning authority has emphasized on an extensive usage of cracking control joints after specific gaps depending upon the type of road construction that allows the curbing to align along with movements, to effectively control cracks.

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