Learn How Buildings Are Constructed - Rcc, Steel & Composite

What you'll learn
Basic Workflow of a Construction Project, List of Professional involved in Building Construction, Seven Stages of Construction Project and their Implementation
Soil Testing, Excavation and Backfilling, Understanding Sample Geotechnical Report, Backfilling and Compaction at the site.
Civil Excavation and Structure Excavation including Equipment for Excavation, Steel Soldier Piles, Soil Nailing System, Secant Pile Wall System & Sheet Piling
Isolated, Strip and Wall Foundation with Detailing, Protection of Foundation from Frost Action, Foundation on Hills, Combined & Eccentric Foundationi
Deep Foundations-Caissons, Socketed Caissons, Precast Piles, Specifications, and Installation Method, Raker Piles, Pile Driving Rigs and Timber Piles
Major types of Cement, Advantages of PPC, Fly Ash, GGBS and Silica Fume, Sand, Aggregates and Water, Air Entraining, Accelerating and Retarding Admixtures
Manufacturing of Concrete with Mixers, Hand Mixing, Volume Batching with Ready Mix Concrete Plants
Placement of Concrete with Pumps and Boom Placers, Compaction and Curing of Concrete, Workability, Slump Test of Concrete, Shotcrete and Guniting
recast Concrete Construction, Wall Panels, Slabs and other Precast Elements, Precast Concrete Slabs, Floors, Beams and Types with Specifications, Spun Piles
Tension Fabric Structures and Light Gauge Steel Structures, CLSM, Geosynthetics, Wick Drains, Gabions, MSE, Lintels and Water proofing Sytems
Standard Steel Sections, Open Web Steel Joists, Castellated Beams, Pratt Truss, Foundation Bolts, Fabricated Plate Girder Sections,
Pipe Racks, Industrial heavy Steel Structures, Erection of Horizontal and Vertical Vessels, Steel Warehouses, Gantry Cranes, Crane Brackets and Crane Rails
Types of Glass - Annealed Glass, Toughened Glass, Heat Strengthened Glass, Laminated Glass, Security Glass, Fire Rated Glass, Impact Glazing, Ionoplast
Spider Connections, Glass Structural Silicon Sealants, Bolted Connections Case studies of Glass Buildings, Glass Floors and Glass Facades
Retaining Walls - Gravity, Cantilever, Counterfort, Buttress, Gabion, Tieback, Keystone Retaining Walls
Stainless Steel in Buildings and Bridges, Austenitic and Duplex Stainless Steel with Practical Case Studies
Traffic Control on the Construction Site, Work Zones in Infrastructure Projects, and Transition Planning, Truck Mounted Attenuators, Design Guidelines and TTC
Timber/Lumber Frame Buildings and Application of Timber in Buildings with Practical Examples, Seasoning of Timber with Types
Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL), Parallel Strand Lumber (PSL) and Engineered Wood Joist, Glulam Beams, Hybrid Glulam Beams, Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) Beams
Fireproofing, Connections in Timber - Nails, Screws, Connector Plates etc. with Examples
Demolition and Deconstruction, Mass Grading and Controlling Soil Erosion, Setting out of Building at Contruction Site - Horizontal Control and Vertical Control
Temporary Shoring, Site Office Installation and Construction of Utilities, Drilling and Blasting, Rock Bolts and Rock Jumbos for Excavation in Rocks
Flat Roof System, and its waterproofing, Roofing Systems, Roof Tiles, Roof Shingles, and Applications in Buildings
Requirements
No Prior experience Needed
Description
This Exclusive Construction Engineering specialization course is curated for professionals in the construction and civil engineering industry looking to advance their careers. The course is simple in language such that a Software Engineer / Accountant can also understand the course. The context of this course is that everyone should know the basics of construction. Through this specialization, enrollers will gain comprehensive industry knowledge along with the latest trends and development within the industry. This 18-unit specialization course will cover the major facets of construction engineering including Foundations, Masonry Construction, Concrete Construction, Structural Steel Erection, Composite Buildings, Stone Masonry, Timber Constuction, Geosynthetics, Traffic Control at the Construction Site, Project Management Basics etc. After students complete this specialization, they will have gained significant skills and tools to stay relevant and ahead of the curve in the world of construction management.This course gives you easy access to the Invaluable Construction and Site Engineering Techniques used by Construction Professionals in Civil Engineering and Construction Project Management. The course is aimed for Civil Engineering Students and Construction Professionals who seek to specialize in Practical Construction Techniques and Invaluable Multi-Faceted Exposure to various Aspects of Site Construction Engineering.1. Basics of Building Construction Basic Workflow of a Construction Project, Building Regulations, their governing bodies, and Building Construction Codes, International Building Codes and Energy Codes, Classification of Construction Sector, List of Professional involved in Building Construction, Seven Stages of Construction Project, and their Implementation with Case Studies2. Soil Testing, Excavation and Backfilling with Thumb RulesThumb Rules for approximate Depth of Bore Holes, Methods of Taking Disturbed and Undisturbed Samples of Soil, Standard Penetration Test, Cone Penetrometer Test, Frost Depth, Ground Water Table and Plate Load Test, Understanding Sample Geotechnical Report, Backfilling and Compaction at the site. 3. Shoring, Civil Excavation and Structure Excavation MethodsCivil Excavation and Structure Excavation including Equipment for Excavation, Slope Cutting, Soil Benching, Trench Shoring Arrangement, Steel Soldier Piles, Soil Nailing System, Secant Pile Wall System, Sheet Piling system and Slurry-Diaphragm walls, Temporary Shoring, Site Office Installation and Construction of Utilities4. Shallow Foundations for BuildingsRole of Foundations in buildings, Shallow Foundation - Isolated, Strip and Wall Foundation with Detailing, Frost Depth, Frost Heaving and Protection of Foundation from Frost Action, Foundations on Back Filled Soil, Slab on Grade Foundation, Meaning of Crawl Space with Pictures, Foundation of Buildings on Hills, Combined and Eccentric Foundations5. Deep Foundations for Buildings Deep Foundations-Caissons, Socketed Caissons, End Bearing and Friction Piles, Method statement for Bored RCC Piling, Drilling and Casting of Pile Foundations, Role of Bentonite Slurry, Fabrication, Lowering of Pile Steel Cage and Concreting of Piles with Tremie, Understanding Pile Caps with Types, Precast Piles, Specifications, and Installation Method, Raker Piles, Pile Driving Rigs and Timber Piles6. Cast-In-Situ Concrete- Placement, Curing and TestingMajor types of Cement, Advantages of PPC, Fly Ash, GGBS and Silica Fume, Sand, Aggregates and Water, Air Entraining, Accelerating and Retarding Admixtures, Manufacturing of Concrete with Mixers, Hand Mixing, Volume Batching with Ready Mix Concrete Plants, Placement of Concrete with Pumps and Boom Placers, Compaction and Curing of Concrete, Workability, Slump Test of Concrete, Shotcrete and Guniting7. Precast Concrete Structures, Tension Fabric Structures, Geosynthetics and Light Gauge Steel StructuresPrecast Concrete Construction, Wall Panels, Slabs and other Precast Elements, Precast Concrete Slabs, Floors, Beams and Types with Specifications, Spun Piles, Precast Concrete Connections -Types and Specifications with Joint Sealants, Tension Fabric Structures and Light Gauge Steel Structures, CLSM, Geosynthetics, Wick Drains, Gabions, MSE, Lintels and Water proofing Sytems8. Structural Steel BuildingsHot Rolled Steel Beam Sections, Z-Shaped & C-Shaped Purlins, Standard Steel Sections, Open Web Steel Joists, Castellated Beams, Pratt Truss, Foundation Bolts, Fabricated Plate Girder Sections, Pipe Racks, Industrial heavy Steel Structures, Erection of Horizontal and Vertical Vessels, Steel Warehouses, Sheeting Panels, Gantry Cranes, Crane Brackets and Crane Rails, Steel Structure Transmission Towers, Fire Protection of Steel structures, Riveted Connections, Bolted Connections and Welded Connections9. Stone Masonry and Brick Masonry BuildingsPrinciples of Stone Masonry Construction with Examples and Application, Type of Stone Masonry Construction-Rubble and Ashlar Masonry, Stone Masonry Walls, Retrofitting of Stone Masonry Construction. Brick Buildings Construction, Plinth Bands, Type of Brick Bonds with Examples, Lime Mortar, OPC Mortar, Confined Masonry Structure and its significance, Seismic behavior of Masonry Buildings with Examples10. Glass in Buildings, Retaining Walls, Stainless Steel & Temporary Traffic ControlTypes of Glass - Annealed Glass, Toughened Glass, Heat Strengthened Glass, Laminated Glass, Security Glass, Fire Rated Glass, Impact Glazing, Ionoplast Interlayers, PVBs., Case studies of Glass Buildings, Glass Floors and Glass Facades, Connection types and Glass Fins, Spider Connections, Glass Structural Silicon Sealants, Bolted Connections and Different Case Studies, Retaining Walls - Gravity, Cantilever, Counterfort, Buttress, Gabion, Tieback, Keystone Retaining Walls, Stainless Steel in Buildings and Bridges, Austenitic and Duplex Stainless Steel with Practical Case Studies, Traffic Control on the Construction Site, Work Zones in Infrastructure Projects, and Transition Planning, Truck Mounted Attenuators, Design Guidelines and TTC Contract11. Timber/Lumber Frame Buildings Introduction to Timber/Lumber, Available Sizes, Units of Measurement with Availability in USA, and Europe, Veneers, Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL), Parallel Strand Lumber (PSL) and Engineered Wood Joist, Glulam Beams, Hybrid Glulam Beams, Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) Beams, Bamboo in Buildings, Plywood, Oriented Strand Boards (OSB) and Application of Timber in Buildings with Practical Examples, Seasoning of Timber with Types, Moisture Content and Defects in Lumber/Timber, Fireproofing, Connections in Timber - Nails, Screws, Connector Plates etc. with Examples12. Demolition, Mass Grading, Drilling /Rock Blasting, Roofing of the BuildingsDemolition and Deconstruction, Mass Grading and Controlling Soil Erosion, Setting out of Building at Contruction Site - Horizontal Control and Vertical Control, Temporary Shoring, Site Office Installation and Construction of Utilities, Drilling and Blasting, Rock Bolts and Rock Jumbos for Excavation in Rocks, Flat Roof System, and its waterproofing, Roofing Systems, Roof Tiles, Roof Shingles, and Applications in Buildings
Overview
Section 1: Introduction to Building Construction, Codes & Regulations
Lecture 1 1.1 How buildings may vary and Importance of Learning about Construction
Lecture 2 Basic Workflow of a Construction Project & Draft Schematic Arrangement
Lecture 3 Can we construct any building wherever deemed possible?
Lecture 4 What are Building Regulations, their governing bodies, and Building Construction
Lecture 5 International Building Codes and Energy Codes adopted in various countries
Lecture 6 Importance of Seismic Resistant Codes for Building Safety
Lecture 7 Classification of Construction Sector
Section 2: Seven Stages of Construction Project and their Implementation with Case Studies
Lecture 8 Stage 1 - Planning and Approvals from Authority having Legal Control
Lecture 9 Stage 2 - Financial Planning, Safeguards and Contingency Plans
Lecture 10 Stage 3 - Legal and Contract Agreements
Lecture 11 Stage 4 - Procurement - Design Bid Build Projects
Lecture 12 Stage 4- Procurement - Design Build Projects (Contractor Led and Architect Led)
Lecture 13 Stage 5-6-7 - Structural Design - On site Construction - Commissioning Stage
Section 3: List of Professional involved in Building Construction, Their Roles and Fees
Lecture 14 Hard Hat Professionals - Carpenter, Electrician, Welder, Mason etc.
Lecture 15 Architects -Scope, Fees, and Licensing Requirements
Lecture 16 Civil Engineers, Structural Engineers, Project Managers, and their Scope
Section 4: Unit-4: Soil Testing, Excavation and Shoring Methods with Thumb Rules
Lecture 17 Classification of Soil as per Codes and How to assess the type with naked eye?
Lecture 18 Why Soil Investigation is Required and How to decide the Inputs for testing?
Lecture 19 Thumb Rules for approximate Depth of Bore Holes required for investigation
Lecture 20 Methods of Taking Disturbed and Undisturbed Samples of Soil for Testing
Lecture 21 Standard Penetration Test, Cone Penetrometer Test & Why we dig deep into ground?
Lecture 22 Frost Depth, Ground Water Table and Plate Load Test
Lecture 23 Understanding Sample Geotechnical Report - Practical Example
Lecture 24 Thumb rules to differentiate sand and clay at site
Lecture 25 What if the client does not want a geotechnical report?
Lecture 26 How to do the Backfilling and Compaction at the site?
Lecture 27 Civil Excavation and Structure Excavation including Equipments for Excavation
Lecture 28 Slope Cutting, Soil Benching and Understanding Angle of Repose
Lecture 29 Understanding Trench Shoring Arrangement
Lecture 30 Understanding Steel Soldier Piles Shoring Arrangement
Lecture 31 Understanding Soil Nailing System for Shoring
Lecture 32 Understanding Secant Pile Wall System for Shoring
Lecture 33 Understanding Sheet Piling system for Shoring
Lecture 34 Introduction to Slurry-Diaphragm walls for Shoring
Lecture 35 How to do Dewatering During Construction
Section 5: Demolition, Mass Grading, Setting out of the Buildings, Shoring & Rock Blasting
Lecture 36 What is meant by Demolition and Deconstruction?
Lecture 37 Mass Grading and Controlling Soil Erosion
Lecture 38 Setting out of Building at Contruction Site - Horizontal and Vertical Control
Lecture 39 Temporary Shoring, Site Office Installation and Construction of Utilities
Lecture 40 Drilling and Blasting, Rock Bolts and Rock Jumbos for Excavation in Rocks
Section 6: Shallow Building Foundations Types, Frost Depth, Back Filled Soil, Slab on Grade
Lecture 41 Role of Foundations in buildings, Permissible Settlement and Case study
Lecture 42 Meaning of Superstructure, Substructure and Foundations & Frost Depth
Lecture 43 Shallow Foundation - Isolated, Strip and Wall Foundation with Detailing
Lecture 44 Frost Depth, Frost Heaving and Protection of Foundation from Frost Action
Lecture 45 Why should buildings never rest on Back Filled Soil?
Lecture 46 Slab on Grade Foundation, Meaning of Crawl Space with Pictures
Lecture 47 Foundation of Buildings on Hills, Combined and Eccentric Foundations
Section 7: Deep Building Foundations, Method Statement, Pile Caps, Precast Piles & Rigs
Lecture 48 Deep Foundations-Caissons, Socketed Caissons, End Bearing and Friction Piles
Lecture 49 Method statement for Bored RCC Piling-Setting out, Drilling and Casting of Pile
Lecture 50 Role of Bentonite Slurry, Fabrication & Lowering of Pile Steel Cage
Lecture 51 Understanding Pile Caps with Types, Shuttering Arrangement of Pile Caps
Lecture 52 Precast Piles, Specifications, and Installation Method
Lecture 53 Raker Piles, Pile Driving Rigs, Timber Piles, Impact Hammer and Vibratory Hammer
Section 8: Concrete as a Building Material with Constituents, Placement, Compaction& Curing
Lecture 54 Constituents of Concrete, Major types of Cement with their Applications
Lecture 55 Introduction and Advantages of PPC, Fly Ash, GGBS and Silica Fume
Lecture 56 Sand, Aggregates and Water as Constituent of Concrete with Applications
Lecture 57 Air Entraining, Accelerating and Retarding Admixtures with Various Examples
Lecture 58 Manufacturing of Concrete with Mixers, Hand Mixing, Volume Batching with RMC
Lecture 59 Placement of Concrete-Concrete Buckets, Buggies, Barrows, Chutes & Boom Placers
Lecture 60 Compaction with Vibrators and Curing of Concrete with Membrane and Steam Curing
Lecture 61 Workability, Slump Test of Concrete, Shotcrete and Guniting
Section 9: Cast-in-Situ Concrete Structures-Beams, Columns, Slabs, Walls & Rebars
Lecture 62 Slabs on Grade, Suspended Concrete Slabs, Beam Supported Slabs-One & Two-Way
Lecture 63 Formwork for Slabs, Flat Slab Systems, Waffle Slabs and Cantilever Slabs
Lecture 64 Concrete beams, Load paths and Reinforcement arrangement
Lecture 65 Concrete Columns, Concrete Structural Walls, Staircases and Concrete Shells
Lecture 66 Rebar Specifications in Australia, Canada, US, and India (Grade, Diameter)
Lecture 67 Concrete Spacers, Binding Wire, Bending Machine and Concrete Chairs
Section 10: Precast Concrete Structures-Wall Panels, Slabs, Beams, Piles with Connections
Lecture 68 Precast Concrete Construction-Wall Panels, Slabs and other Precast Elements
Lecture 69 Precast Concrete Slabs, Floors, Beams and Types with Specifications
Lecture 70 Spun Piles, Precast Concrete Connections -Types and Specifications
Section 11: Structural Steel Buildings Construction, Fabrication, Types and Erection
Lecture 71 Hot Rolled Steel Beam Sections-I Beam, Channels, Uniform Beams, Uniform Columns
Lecture 72 Z-Shaped & C-Shaped Purlins, Square Hollow, Rectangular Hollow and CHS
Lecture 73 Standard Steel Sections in Europe, USA & Thumb rules of Construction Sizes
Lecture 74 Open Web Steel Joists - Meaning & Applications with Properties
Lecture 75 Castellated Beams, Pratt Truss, Warren Truss, North Light Truss, Saw Tooth Truss
Lecture 76 oundation Bolts, Nuts with Types and Fabricated Plate Girder Sections
Lecture 77 Steel deck sheets, Shear studs and Specifications with Installation Methods
Lecture 78 Pipe Racks, Industrial heavy Steel Structures, Practical Construction site visit
Lecture 79 Sheeting/Cladding, Grating, Diamond plate for Industrial Flooring
Lecture 80 Steel Warehouses, Standard Frames, Cable Bracing Systems, Mezzanine Flooring
Lecture 81 Sheeting Panels, Gantry Cranes, Crane Brackets and Crane Rails
Lecture 82 Steel Structure Transmission Towers, Arrangement and Specifications
Lecture 83 Steel Structure Foot Over Bridges and Steel Sports Stadium Structure Arrangement
Lecture 84 Fire Protection of Steel structures- Thin Film, Thick Film Intumescent Coatings
Lecture 85 Riveted Connections, Bolted Connections and Welded Connections
Lecture 86 Light Gauge Steel Structure (Cold Form Structures) with Practical Examples
Lecture 87 Tension Fabric Structures with Practical Case Studies
Section 12: Stone Masonry Buildings-Construction, Systems, Stone Masonry Walls
Lecture 88 Principles of Stone Masonry Construction with Examples and Applications
Lecture 89 Type of Stone Masonry Construction-Rubble and Ashlar Masonry with Types
Lecture 90 Stone Masonry Walls- Weep holes, Bonding elements, Construction Specifications
Lecture 91 Retrofitting of Stone Masonry Construction-Specifications and Methods
Section 13: Roofing of the Buildings with Types, Roof Shingles, Roof Tiles, Water Proofing
Lecture 92 Flat Roof System and its waterproofing
Lecture 93 Mono Pitch Roof, Saw Tooth Roof, Butterfly Roof, and other Roofing Systems
Lecture 94 How to Calculate Pitch and Slope of the Roof
Lecture 95 Roof Tiles, Roof Shingles, and Applications in Buildings
Section 14: Retaining Walls, Stainless Steel & Temporary Traffic Control
Lecture 96 Dead, Live, Construction and Equipment Loads on Building during Construction
Lecture 97 Retaining Walls - Gravity, Cantilever, Counterfort, Buttress, Gabion, Tieback
Lecture 98 Stainless Steel in Buildings and Bridges, Austenitic and Duplex Stainless Steel
Lecture 99 Traffic Control on the Construction Site, Work Zones in Infrastructure Projects
Lecture 100 Truck Mounted Attenuators, Design Guidelines and TTC Contract
Section 15: CLSM, Geosynthetics, Wick Drains, Gabions , MSE , Lintels and Water proofing
Lecture 101 Controlled Low Strength Material in Buildings and Infrastructure
Lecture 102 Radon Mitigation and Active Soil Depressurization
Lecture 103 Mechanically Stabilized Earth, Geosynthetics, Geotextiles, Geogrids, Geomembrane
Lecture 104 Wick Drains (PVD) and Gabions Application
Lecture 105 Mechanically stabilized Earth or Reinforced Earth with different applications
Lecture 106 Basement Water Proofing Sytems - External and Integral Water proofing Systems
Lecture 107 Masonry Paving, Glass Bricks and Steel/Concrete Lintels in Buildings
Section 16: Glass in Buildings -Types, Interlayers, Connections, and types with Case studies
Lecture 108 Types of Glass - Annealed Glass, Toughened Glass, Heat Strengthened Glass
Lecture 109 Impact Glazing, Ionoplast Interlayers, PVBs and Glass Coefficients for Light
Lecture 110 Case studies of Glass Buildings, Glass Floors and Glass Facades
Lecture 111 Glass Facades, Connection types and Glass Fins
Lecture 112 Spider Connections, Glass Structural Silicon Sealants, Bolted Connections
Section 17: Timber /Lumber Frame Buildings- Material, Types of Lumbers and Application
Lecture 113 Introduction to Timber/Lumber, Available Sizes, Units of Measurement
Lecture 114 Veneers, Laminated Veener Lumber (LVL), Parallel Strand Lumber (PSL)
Lecture 115 Glulam Beams, Hybrid Glulam Beams, Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) Beams
Lecture 116 Bamboo in Buildings, Plywood, Oriented Strand Boards (OSB) and Application
Lecture 117 Seasoning of Timber with Types, Moisture Content and Defects in Lumber/Timber
Lecture 118 Timber/Lumber Fireproofing, Connections in Timber - Nails, Screws, Connector
Section 18: Brick Masonry Buildings- Material, Types of Bonds and Applications
Lecture 119 Brick Buildings Construction, Plinth Bands, Type of Brick Bonds with Examples
Lecture 120 Lime Mortar, OPC Mortar, Confined Masonry Structure and its significance
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