BUILDING CONSTRUCTION –II

CE 231                                                                                   No. of hrs/week: 03+02

                                                                                                No. of credits : 04

This includes a study of building architectural terminology and design considerations.

1. FOUNDATIONS: Preliminary investigations – safe bearing capacity of soils : Definition and importance- Types of foundations: Spread and Pile – design of spread footings for walls.

2. Masonry : Stone masonry: Classification – Brick masonry – Bond in masonry.

3. Walls, doors and windows : Load bearing and partition walls – reinforced brick walls- different types of doors and windows of timber and metal.

4. Roofs : Pitched roofs: Lean to, coupled, collared, timber and steel trusses for roofs – covering material: A.C. Sheet, G.I. Sheet, tiles- R.C.C. roof – Weather proofing.

5. Stairs : Design principles – Types of R.C stair cases with sketches.

6. Flooring: Concrete floors – floor finishes with tiles, slabs, terrazos, synthetic materials.

7. Plastering & Pointing : Plastering with cement and lime mortar pointing; types- wall finishes: white washing, colour washing, distempering and painting.

8. Shoring – Underpinning – scaffolding – damp and termite proof construction – prefabricated elements for building.

9. Cost estimating :

a) Estimation – definition – methods: Centre line and long wall shortwall methods- units of measurements – estimation of buildings.

b) Analysis of rates – purpose – factors affecting the rates – data for different items of work in building.

BUILDING CONSTRUCTION -II (DRAWING)

Building components :

1. Foundation : Spread foundation for walls and columns of masonry -sketching of raft & pile foundation.

2.  Doors & Windows : Sketching of battened, ledged, braced & panelled doors, sketching of fully panelled, partly panelled, fully glazed & partly glazed windows.

3.  Roofs & Roof trusses : Pitched-lean-to-roof, gable roof & hipped roof, king post & queen post trusses, R.C.C. roof.

4.  Stairs : Drawing of single flight, dog legged, open well type stairs - R.C.C. stairs.

     Building :

 Functional design of buildings - positioning of various components of the building - size  requirements.

5. Reinforced concrete elements : Lintels,  Chajjas, Beams, slabs – detailed sketches only.

Buildings to be covered are :

(1)  Residential buildings - flat, pitched & combined.

(2)  Office buildings - flat roof.

(3)  Public buildings like hospital, hostel, school etc-flat roof.

      Detailed drawing with respect to plan, section and elevation are to be drawn.

REFERENCES :

1.         Building construction by B.C. Punmia.

2.         I.S. : National Building Code - 1970.

3.         Uniform Building Code.

4.         Estimating & Costing by Dutta.

5.         Principles of building drawing by Shah & Kale.

6.         Construction technology (Vol I & II) by R.Chudley.

7.         Applied building construction (2nd & 3rd year courses) by Medlycott.