3rd sem syllabus of construction techniques, equipment and practices.

CE1203              CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES, EQUIPMENT                                                     AND PRACTICES

CONSTRUCTION PRACTICES
             Specifications, details and sequence of activities and construction co-ordination – Site Clearance – Marking – Earthwork - masonry – stone masonry – concrete hollow block masonry – flooring – damp proof courses – construction joints – movement and expansion joints – pre cast pavements – Building foundations – basements – temporary shed – centering and shuttering sheet piles – slip forms – scaffoldings – de-shuttering forms – Fabrication and erection of steel trusses – frames – braced domes – laying brick –– weather and water proof – roof finishes – air conditioning – acoustic and fire protection.

SUB STRUCTURE CONSTRUCTION
           Techniques of Box jacking – Pipe Jacking -under water construction of diaphragm walls and basement-Tunneling techniques – Piling techniques- driving well and caisson - sinking cofferdam - cable anchoring and grouting-driving diaphragm walls, sheet piles - shoring for deep cutting- Large reservoir construction with membranes and Earth system- well points -Dewatering and stand by Plant equipment for underground open excavation.

SUPER STRUCTURE CONSTRUCTION
             Launching girders, bridge decks, off shore platforms – special forms for shells - techniques for heavy decks – in-situ pre-stressing in high rise structures, aerial transporting handling - erecting light weight components on tall structures -erection of transmission towers - Construction sequences in cooling towers, silos, chimney, sky scrapers, bow string bridges, cable stayed bridges -Support structure for heavy Equipment and conveyors -Erection of articulated structures, braced domes and space decks

EPAIR AND REHABILITATION
              Study on causes of building damage and deterioration – Assessment of materials and methods of repair and restoration.

CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT
              Selection of equipment for earth work - earth moving operations - types of earthwork equipment - tractors, motor graders, scrapers, front end waders, earth movers – Equipment for foundation and pile driving. Equipment for compaction, batching and mixing and concreting - Equipment for material handling and erection of structures - Equipment for dredging, trenching, tunneling, drilling, blasting –– dewatering and pumping equipment – Transporters.