Learn How Buildings Are Constructed – Rcc, Steel & Composite

Earthwork, Shoring, Foundation Systems, Concrete Buildings, Structural Steel Buildings, Brick Masonry Buildings & Timber

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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