Assignment: Building Conceptual Design Drawing Project

Part A - Project Report Detailed Objectives (25%)

• Interpretation and understanding of the requirements of a structural engineering brief.
• Identification of key problem areas associated with structural engineering projects.
• Development and evaluation of conceptual ideas.
• Reasoned selection of design proposals.
• Preliminary design of framed structures in steel and reinforced concrete.
• Preliminary design of foundations.
• Identification and evaluation of the construction difficulties associated with structural engineering projects.

Part B - AutoCAD Technical Drawings (70%)

• 2D plans and elevations in AutoCAD of a civil engineering project.
• Detailing a reinforced concrete building
• Detailing a steel building

Task: The building design question of the next page is a past examination paper for full corporate membership of the Institution of Structural Engineers.

This examination is used to select practising engineers for full chartered status and provides a valuable insight into the level of competence expected of young engineers seeking this privilege. In practice, a period of seven hours is allowed for the real examination. For the purposes of this coursework, a period of approximately five weeks is available.

Your coursework submission should follow the requirements set out in the question paper; typically comprising a written report, drawings and calculations. A high standard of work is expected in terms of presentation, technical and information content.

Learning on this unit is student centred. You are expected to find information and research the topics independently.

You must be prepared to do your own research in the University Library, the Internet Resources and elsewhere. Extensive reading lists are provided and selected books are available from local bookshops.

You are not expected to tackle these assignments based, solely on what you already know. Learning for the first time is fundamental to any successful design. The assignments provide a simulation of the design process conducted in professional practice.

Light Industrial Factory and Office Block

The client's brief

1. The proposed steel framed light industrial factory and adjoining cast-in-situ reinforced concrete framed office block are shown in plan and section in Figure 1.

2. The project is in a green field site and will be the first part of an industrial zone planned at London, Ealing, UK. There are no access problems at this site.

3. The project is required to be of pleasing appearance, inside and out. The roof and the sides of the factory are to be of an insulated, double skin and profiled aluminium cladding. Glazed curtain walling is to be used for the sides of the offices.

4. After much discussion, the client has agreed to one central column in the factory area with perimeter columns as required commensurate with the door openings.

5. A centrally placed column free area (60X10m) should be provided at the ground floor of the office block (see Figure 1).

6. In the Industrial Factory a Bridge crane of a capacity of 20 tones is required and is sides of support is as shown in the plan view indicated with red lines.

Assignment: Levelling - Linear Surveying and Control Surveying

Task: The Land Surveying Coursework of the next page has been designed to cover the learning outcomes and objectives of the module as listed above. On the successful completion of this coursework students will gain an understanding of the following thematic units of Land Surveying:

• Levelling including Vertical Control of Structures, Contouring and volume calculations
• Linear Surveying, Corrections and Mapping
• Horizontal Control of structures, angle measurements, Coordinates, Traversing and mapping

Your coursework submission should follow the requirements set out in the question paper; typically comprising a written report, drawings and calculations. A high standard of work is expected in terms of presentation, technical and information content.

Information is available in the Lecture/ Tutorial notes and examples as well as in the Blackboard support documents. In addition you are expected to find information and research the topics more independently. The assignments provide the ‘need to know'. You must be prepared to do your own research in the University Library, the Internet Resources and elsewhere.

Part 1 - Levelling Vertical Control & Earthwork Volume Calculations

Scenario: Setting out of the Depths of Excavation for a Drainage Pipeline Network Maintenance and Calculate the Earthworks Volumes

The client's brief

1. The proposed drainage pipeline network which is to be maintained presented in plan and section in Figure 1.

2. Pipeline has an overall gradient of -0.5%.

3. The elevation on the top side of the pipeline at section 1 and the elevations of the Ordinates Bench Mark (OBM) at point A are as shown in the Plan view and the elevation of the next page.

4. The Width of the excavation is 1.00m wide and the depth from the ground level to the top of the drainage pipe.

5. The backfilling material used to cover the pipeline was sand with a swelling factor of 1.05.

6. Spacing between the drainage pipe sections 10.000m

7. The bearing of the drainage pipe is: 00o00'00'' (sections S1 to S3) and 90o00'00'' (sections S4 to S5)

Use the data provided above, the sketches of the next page and the examples provided with your hand-outs and carry out the following activities:

1. Complete a closed levelling in the field.

2. Produce as many change points as required such as to keep the distance in accepted levels (e.g. 15.000 maximum )

3. Carry out Simple and Full Calculation checks.

4. Calculate the allowable levelling misclosure and compare it with the actual misclosure. Briefly comment on the result.

5. Carry out the error distribution and calculate the corrected levels of the sections indicated in the sketches.

6. Calculate the elevation of the drainage pipe at the indicated sections and thus calculate the required depths of excavation.

7. Present the depths of excavation in a separate table.

8. Present all of the calculations, completed levelling booking sheet including the remarks column preferably in word processed documents.

9. Clearly present the areas of excavations, volume calculations and Volume diagrams.

10. Produce any required sketches indicating your levelling layout (as the example provided in the plan view of the next page)

11. Produce any other required sketches in AutoCAD.

Attachment:- Assignment.rar