Reinforced concrete building design project & project based learning (Case Study)

Throughout this semester, I gained countless s information on how to design a structure and the process to construct a building from the ground up. The first was obtaining an architectural drawing and it must meet all aspects mentioned in the Uniform Building By-Laws (1984). With the help of Microsoft Project, the project was planned out carefully. Then, the project is carried out by sketching the main plan in AutoCad. The structural key plan must consist of ground floor, first floor, and roof floor. This will help students to arrange the position of columns, locate simply supported and continuous beams to be used in design calculations. The area of the slab must not exceed 25 cubic metre as mentioned by the lecturer. After the key plan is approved by the lecturer, students began stage one of concrete slab. For this stage, the type of slab, variable load and live load is determined to proceed to stage 2 and the same for the other structural members which are simply supported, continuous beam, column, pad footing and staircase. All of the manual calculations is then compared to PRO KON software calculations. This software exposes students in determining the most accurate size for all structural parts. Furthermore, students conducted a case study on flexible pavement design. We used Highway Engineering (ECG344) knowledge since we need to choose a suitable flexible pavement design depending on their on-site location for this ECS358 project