Reinforced concre te building design project & project based learning

From the architectural drawing, structural key plans compromising the ground floor layout, first floor layout and roof layout are derived to define the location of structural members in the reinforced building including reinforced concrete slab, beam and column. After drawing structural key plans, manual designs of each structural members are done to evaluate required dimensions and specifications of structures to sustain load imposed on them. By using the manual design, the results are then compared with output from PROKON software. Next, the total cost of project is estimated by using Bill of Quantities method. In this method, taking-off are done for each structural members to enumerate number of construction materials needed to construct the reinforced concrete building such as reinforcement bar, concrete mix and sawn timber. The quantities of materials from the taking-off are then summed up and multiplied with the respective price of item provided in the Schedule of Rate by Jabatan Kerja Raya Malaysia to obtain the total cost of materials for this particular project