Reinforced concrete building design project & project based learning / Abid Zamreen Abu Halim

The uses of reinforcement concrete are widely used in construction industry. Most of the modern building use reinforcement concrete to increase the strength of the buildings. The Civil Engineer are the main backbone to design the building. If the Civil Engineer make a mistake in their decision for the designing of buildings, the buildings may be fail or not long lasting. This project shows me that, the structural design by using Esteem is more accurate than manual calculation. The assuming value made by Esteem is more precisely because it had been set and programmed by details. On the other hand, the manual calculation occurs more error because lacks of detail information put on the designing. Other than that, I can manage to complete the details for the list of activities, time frame and project schedule. The project is completed by using Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) in Microsoft Project. The list of activities and time frame had been managed in the Gantt Chart. The details information for project schedule had been managed in Network Diagram for the division of work according to the resources and duration of time to completed the project on time. Then, I had learned to estimate the costing of project from Bill of Quantities by using Esteem and manual calculation. The important part that must be consider is the rate of price use for the specific year and area. The rate of price use can be refenced to the Jabatan Kerja Raya (JKR) Price Rate and ClDB Price Rate for Malaysia Standard price rate. ln addition, I can handle to propose the Soil Bearing Capacity and propose for Water Demand and Water Tank Size. The value of Soil Bearing Capacity is important in determining the size of pad footing in order to prevent the buildings from failure. The Water Demand in the buildings is calculated based on the estimated size of the family in the and each section area of the buildings. The value of Water Demand can be used to estimate the size of the water tank that suitable for the water demand of the specific area. Last but not least, I learned a lot about the scope of work to construct the buildings from the beginning until the project finished. After an, the Civil Engineer task is challenging and tough whether at the construction site and outside of the construction site. This is because the Civil Engineer responsibilities on the strength of the buildings, material used and make sure the buildings are safe for people.