Demand Analysis on Natural River Sand Used in the Construction Project

Abstract

AbstractThe global utilization of natural river sand is very high due to the extended use of concrete. At the construction fields one of the major issue is unavailability of natural river sand, Today the demand for river sand continues to rise. The projects get delays due to the demand on the natural river sand in the market. Moreover natural river sand production is not consistent over interval with a deficiency faced in many authorities. The cost of the natural river sand is also rising due to many reasons like transportation from source of material to field. Due to unreliability and insufficient in supply of material, the selling cost of the natural river sand differs crucially leading to illegal sales and unofficial mining of the soil. Using quarry dust as an alternative to natural river sand in concrete can provide solutions to demand and sudden price hikes. The details about the fine aggregate cost for last ten years were collected from some of the cities in south India. Current natural river sand consumption in tones were collected from government mines report and it was collected in state wise. From the government reports collected the sale price of natural river sand in different state. From the detailed study on demand on river sand, simple multiple choice questions were circulated using google forms and the responses were recorded. The collected data were analysed statistically by statistical package for the social science (SPSS) analysis.KeywordsNatural river sandDemand analysisQuarry dustSPSS