What is centering in construction? What is a centre line plan?

Center Line is a line that passes through the centre of a column. Grid of similar lines for a number of columns form a centre line plan. Centre line plans help you understand the exact positioning of a column on site. A column may be of different dimensions and but may have the same centre line. Centre line grid for columns are plotted on a land before beginning excavations. Checking for centre line of a column grid ensures that columns are located at exact locations as per drawings.
 

MANNU_CIVIL

Junior Member
Formwork, Shuttering, Centering , Staging & Scaffolding are all temporary structures arranged on site for specific purposes.
You use these terms Shuttering, Formwork, Centering, Scaffolding frequently. But most of them don’t the considerable difference between them.