Reinforced concrete building design project and project based learning: case study) / Nurul Elmia Farhana Embok Taha

Civil engineering design project (ECS358) contains TWO (2) numbers of project. The first one is the reinforced concrete building design project while the other one is the project-based learning or known as case study. For the first project, student is required to search for a set of architectural drawing which fulfils some requirements including the layout of the buildings must adopt to the specifications listed in Uniform Building by Law (1984) and the building must fulfil the fire safety and building regulations. Based on the architectural drawing, students are required to generate a structural key plan and produce structural analysis and design calculations of structural elements such as slab, beam, column, staircase and pad footing for the building according to the requirements of EC2 by using software (PROK ON) and also manual calculations. This is because comparison between both approaches will be made at the end of the project to identify errors that occurs so that the design for all structural elements are adequate to transfer the load safely. As the information about main reinforcement, shear, cracking, and deflection has passed the design phase, the proposed dimension used for the calculation can be finalised for selection of construction materials based on the manual calculation and software output. As the information about main reinforcement, shear, cracking, and deflection has passed the design phase, the proposed dimension used for the calculation can be finalised for construction material selection based on the manual calculation and software output that has been calculated. At the end, students need to compile all the tasks in a technical design report. On the other hand, students also required to generate bill of quantities (BQ) for the structural elements by manual calculation. After the course lecturer explains all the assessments and course requirements throughout the semester, students are required to prepare a project schedule using Microsoft Project by including a list of activities and the time required for an activity to be completed. This also will be included in the technical report during the compilation. For Project 2, students are given with a case study of geotechnical condition of a proposed site. For example, in case study 1, students need to find the bearing capacity of the soil based on the information retrieved from the Mackintosh Probe report. For the second case study, students are needed to proposed a complete design for flexible pavement based on our site location.