Reinforced concrete building design project & project based learning (Case Study) / Syed Mohamed Adam Ikmal Syed Mohd Shah

As I can conclude, it is very essential to design the structural member of a building like this double storey terrace house with a correct procedure like first and foremost need to know the materials specifications and grade. Also, UBBL requires the safety of the house to make sure all follow one standard that has been created. The safety of the house is more secured because follows the requirement from the UBBL After that, the proper design layout of the house such as the architectural drawing and structural key plan of each floor. Then, identify the slab, beam, column, pad footing and also staircase need to design for this subject. Also, beam design is as rectangular section compare to flange section. It is because the beam structure caters the small load so no need to design as flange. Before design the structural members, analysis need to be done first. Design is the most critical part because it is need to check whether the main reinforcement, shear reinforcement, cracking and deflection is pass or not. The checking is to ensure the structure can resist the load and ensure the users of the house comfortable and safe. From the checking, the reinforcements and spacing will be determined and the maximum force caters by the structure also will be determined. Next, the estimated amount cost will be knew from the bill of quantities and before that need to prepare the Taking Off for each structure designed. Also, from the comparison of Prokon and manual calculation, the value might be different because of manual calculation follows the Eurocode Standard and British Standard while Prokon follows Eurocode only. From this course, I learnt how to read the soil details from the site investigation report (SI report) and design each of the structure. Also, the standard need to be standardize to make sure all the calculations values same. Also, for this subject, I think it is not suitable to conduct online because it need the detail of explanation from a lecturer to make their students more understand for this course. This course also has too many calculations so students might not understand each of the explanation during live class. It must be face to face in the university between the lecture and student. Therefore, students need to find other actions such as ask for help from a friend to teach until understand the subtopic.