Reinforced concrete building design project & project based learning (case study) / Aida Alwani Isran Fahmi

For the summary of design works, civil engineering works rely on Standards and Codes of Practice of serve as a guide in the execution of the design and workmanship obligations. Besides, Standards or Codes of Practice, in effect, act as a codified version of the cumulative knowledge and technical expertise within the building and construction industry. In designing reinforced concrete is not easy as we expected, we need to have a solid knowledge about concrete. As well as know that concrete is the most material used in any construction compared to steel. Then, designing reinforced concrete with the Code of Practice is crucial. In addition, al construction purposes must comply with the Malaysia Standard. Besides, we also need to follow the law by Uniform Building by Law (UBBL). If we did not comply with the law, our project might be affected in terms of cost, delayed and others. Thus, we must be careful because we want to construct a building that will be use by client. In other words, we as a designer need to design properly to avoid damages and accident towards client. It is our responsible as civil engineers to design al elements that can withstand any hazardous situation such as earthquake, flash flood, strong wind, and many more. As for diploma level, we just need to design static building where the wind action is not applied in this design works. Finally, this is a fundamental knowledge that we need to have as a civil engineering student. By using the standard Code of Practice, ti will make all the construction are standardized. Denying the Code of Practice will indicate us as non-ethics engineers.