All engineers and project planning as well as execution people keep using one or more of the project planning softwares like Primavera or the Microsft Project (MS Project) or others. Never actually realized until a colleague of mine asked how to un-hide the column(s) and retrieve the filled up/ edited information in MS Project software platform.

The bitter fact of the matter is that... in case you need to un-hide a particular information column...

You will have to insert the required column (MS Project doesn't have an "unhide column" option). Right-click on an existing column heading and choose "insert column" option. After this, select the column/field you want. The new column will appear next to the column you had chosen.

If you plan to temporarily hide a column, do not use the "hide column" option since you will lose the custom headings that you may have defined (the data remains intact of course). Instead, using your mouse, click the column boundary and move it from right to left till the column is hidden. To unhide, drag from left to right. [Source: http://www.gantthead.com/discussions/discussionsTopicContainer.cfm?ID=5099]

Read the following link too to on "ehow" understand the ways to get back the hidden column, but sans the edited & formatted information that you may have put before permanently hiding the column(s). [http://www.ehow.com/how_5079889_unhide-columns-microsoft-project.html]

Hope this tip will help you guys using the software understand and not make mistake of hiding the columns permanently, which you may desire to retrieve and use otherwise at a later stage.

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All of you must be aware how CEMENT has been the cornerstone of all the building materials worldwide.

You have been seeing cement getting used in so many forms in the daily lives, be it manufacture of home, making and using concrete, masonry, plastering, finishing... and the list will go on.

But, do you have any idea how CEMENT IS MADE?

Some of you would perhaps be knowing, but for all of those who don't let us ask our readers to submit their brief write ups explaining the process of CEMENT MANUFACTURING.

The write up must be 200 to 400 words long and may correlate the steps with that of the numbers depicted in the process diagram representation herein above.

The best write up shall receive a quality gift hamper and the best of entries posted here on BRICKS-n-MORTAR.

Send in your entries by 28/Feb/2010 to <team (at) bricks-n-mortar (dot) com>. 
So, hurry, we shall be waiting to hear from you.

Remember, the Delhi Metro (DMRC) column and bridge collapse accident that shook South Delhi in the month of July 2009?

The metro rail track supporting bridge was being erected at the East of Kailash area stretch on the Central Secretariat to Badarpur corridor of the Delhi Metro when one the piers (huge bridge supporting columns) gave way resulting in loss of life, property, time, money and DMRC's face and grace of being a top-class engineering division of the country.

The initial fact-finding study reports and subsequent testing of samples and engineering design checks pointed fingers at the design flaws which had been found as the prime reason of failure in the design details of the cantilever pier-caps (the one-side overhung column caps to support the pre-cast rail bridge pieces), together with ill-quality material and workmanship standards followed for the fast-tracked construction activities that were being pushed to the limit to meet the target of making the Delhi Metro rail network functional in all desired stretches of Delhi and suburbs like Noida, Gurgaon and Faridabad that comprise of the National Capital Region (NCR).
The incident took place between pillars 66 and 67 when the pillar cap was affected. Ten segments were to be erected on the stretch of which five had been completed. When the sixth segment was being erected, the launching girder collapsed due to disbalance causing a portion of the bridge to fall, one of the leading news portals (source: accident site photo at top too) had reported. The Delhi Metro rail Corporation (DMRC) had subsequently announced that all cantilever structures built during the ongoing Phase-II would be rechecked for safety and stability. The report following the rechecks found a number of columns on the Delhi-Noida as well as Delhi-Gurgaon stretch faulty.

BRICKS-n-MORTAR hereby appraise you pictorially as what measures DMRC have taken to take care of the piers with faulty cantilever overhangs.






Share your thoughts and comments essaying your reactions towards these measures and if you think these are adequate in restoring the structural safety as well as restoring back the faith of future commuters of the Metro Rail on these tracks.

Hey people! 

Before you bricks-n-mortar 's fans start thinking what happened to this blog website and start assuming if it will buzz again or not, here is the entire editorial desk of BnM saying a VERY VERY WARM HELLO to YOU ALL and welcoming you back to this e-community of knowledge sharing on civil engineering based issues, doubts and queries.

We understand you'll be asking what happened to us? Where were we all these last 40 days to be precise with nothing new updating on the blog?

Well, well, all this happened because of a technical glitch which kept us on our toes all this while trying and retrying all possible measures and helpful resources to solve the problem. Thanks to Shankar, one of our e-buddies, who could resolve the issue. [interestingly, today's Shivraatri also.. Lord Shankar's big day as per the Indian Hindu Mythology  :-)   We sincerely dedicate the solution and new life for the blog to Lord Shiva]

Back to the topic, the ever truthful idiom is coming to our minds today-- "Man proposes, God disposes". At the dawn of this new year 2010, we had drawn long plans as how we would be more regular and particular about posting the useful web content here on bricks-n-mortar. Had analyzed from Google Analytics and other similar webtools for our blogsite that we had updated 39 blogposts in 2008 (Apr to Dec) and 53 blogposts in 2009, making the rate of posting almost once a week.

We had planned to increase the posting frequency to at least twice a week and stick to the schedule of posting every Monday and Thursday as far as possible. This would have let us post almost 100 plus quality blogposts in 2010, which shall cover users-related topics. Well, mere numbers as such do not matter much unless and until the web content posted is not meeting qualitative standards, and which are not of interest to our e-community.

All said and done, we are back on track after getting derailed on the 2nd day of January 2010 due to the technical glitch. We are enthusiastic and seek your cooperation, suggestions, feedback in maintain the A+ class quality of our blog.

Regards,
BRICKS-n-MORTAR .com's Edesk