Reinforced concrete building design project & project based learning (case study) / Afiq Aiman Kamaruddin

In this final year design project, I realized there are many calculations to design some structure. For example, in my project I design a double-storey house that are located in Segamat, Johor. Many aspects that we are looking for example the project background, architectural drawing, and soil investigation report before I want to proceed to the next stage which are prepared the structural key plan using the AutoCAD, design the manual calculation for two - ways slab, rectangular simply supported beam, continuous beam, column, staircase and also the pad footing based on the soil investigation report. After that, I need to make a comparison between the manual calculation and PROKON calculation. In the comparison we looking the value that more than thirty percent and it will consider as failure or on another side is using the different formula so will provide the different value for both calculations. Next, about on preparing the Microsoft project to show at the client to make some agreement between each other. The Microsoft project good for the client because it will help them to know how long the project take time and when the project will finish. Next, for the engineer it will help them to estimate the time and complete the project with the time given to prevent from the company to pay more based on the agreement. Last but not least, for the architectural and structural drawing are important to the designer. The structural drawing must show all the value clearly because it will help the designer to find and take the value to make a calculation for the manual calculation and also PROKON. For manual calculation, there are many risks that may occur while designing a project. Most of the risks imposed are due to human error such as accidentally calculate the outputs wrongly, using the wrong data, and applying the wrong formula by accident. This will cause differences to occur between the manual and software calculation which may be difficult to detect. Hence, the overall duration of the design process will be delayed. This is the reason why it is important for civil engineers to have the knowledge on designing individual structural parts to provide efficiency in the design process.