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By; Robert O. Parmley, P.E.

Title

Civil Engineering Illustrated Source Book

Preface

Any engineer entering the profession, seeking a career in the area of private practice, should be mentored by a well-seasoned professional. But, in today’s world of specialists, there are fewer general practioners in civil engineering who are well versed in the full aspect of consulting engineering.  When you do find one, that individual most often is too busy to devote much time to training entry-level personnel. Therefore, the novice engineer is at a basic disadvantage. Being well trained and educated is not sufficient to pursue a career in consulting engineering. One must also have adequate, practical experience. The licensing laws of each state, territory and province have experience requirements mandated before issuing a P.E. (Professional Engineer) registration. However, these requirements are broad based. This source book is not intended to supplant any licensing requirement, but rather designed to augment this segment of the engineer’s training.

Table of Contents

PLANNING

Section 1 TECHNICAL REPORTS 1-1

Section 2 PROJECT SCHEDULING 2-1

Section 3 FIELD RECONNAISSANCE, SURVEYING & MAPPING 3-1

Section 4 PUBLIC MEETINGS 4-1

Section 5 REGULATORY APPROVALS 5-1

Section 6 COST ESTIMATING 6-1

DESIGN

Section 7 TITLE SHEET ORGANIZATION 7-1

Section 8 BUILDINGS 8-1

Section 9 WATER SUPPLY & DISTRIBUTION 9-1

Section 10 FIRE PROTECTION 10-1

Section 11 WASTEWATER COLLECTION & TREATMENT 11-1

Section 12 STORM SEWER SYSTEMS 12-1

Section 13 DAMS & RESERVOIRS 13-1

Section 14 STREETS, ROADS & HIGHWAYS 14-1

Section 15 BRIDGES 15-1

Section 16 AIRPORTS 16-1

Section 17 ATHLETIC FACILITIES 17-1

Section 18 TRAILER COURTS & CAMPGROUNDS 18-1

Section 19 RETROFITTING & REHABILITATION 19-1

Section 20 SPECIALIZED PROJECTS 20-1

Section 21 STANDARD DETAILS 21-1

Section 22 SPECIFICATIONS 22-1

BIDDING PROCESS

Section 23 BIDDING DOCUMENTS 23-1

Section 24 ADVERTISING & BID OPENING 24-1

Section 25 CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS 25-1

CONSTRUCTION

Section 26 PRE-CONSTRUCTION CONFERENCE 26-1

Section 27 SHOP DRAWINGS 27-1

Section 28 SAFETY 28-1

Section 29 INSPECTION & TESTING 29-1

Section 30 CONSTRUCTION STAKING 30-1

Section 31 CLOSE-OUT 31-1

SUPPLEMENTAL

Section 32 TECHNICAL REFERENC

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A Short Course on Tunnel Concept, Design and Construction by PIAS

Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIAS) offer a short course on Tunnels Concept, Design and Construction on 25-26 August 2014, PIAS, Islamabad, Pakistan. The details of this course is as under.

Scope:

The Course focuses on planning, design and construction of tunnels, sharing the knowledge and experience of experts from Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC).

 

 

 

 

Tunnel Construction Civil Engineering

Prospective Participants:

• Professionals as well as people from academia in different firms / organizations / Institutes involved in this field.
• Students of Civil, Mechanical and Mining Engineering can also attend.

Methodology: 

Lectures, discussions and case studies.

Venue: 

PIEAS, Nilore, Islamabad

Resource Person: 

Mr. Riaz Ahmad, Member CAC, PAEC

Phone Number:

 (+92) 300 8509658

Fee: 

PKR 10,000/- for Professionals and PKR 5,000/- for Students

Deadline for Registration: 

09^th August 2014.

Application form can be downloaded from www.pieas.edu.pk

Drawing Estimation And Construction Complete Course Content

Drawings are used by architects and others for a number of purposes: to develop a design idea into a coherent proposal, to communicate ideas and concepts, to convince clients of the merits of a design, to enable a building contractor to construct it, as a record of the completed work, and to make a record of a building that already exists.
A Structural drawing, a type of technical drawing, shows information about foundations, roof, or other structural details.

A Civil Estimator is a construction professional who bids on civil projects that have gone to tender. Civil estimators typically have a background in civil engineering, construction project management, or construction supervision. Estimators are responsible for obtaining tenders, obtaining of material costs, calculation of tenders taking into consideration project management and overheads. The role of an estimator can be a very pressured one, and requires a great level of concentration, some of which will result in erratic office hours to ensure tender return dates can be achieved.

COURSE CONTENT:

1. SLIDES FOR ESTIMATION RULES, THEORY
2. STRUCTURAL DRAWING
3. ESTIMATION OF HOUSE WITH DRAWING
4. DRAWINGS OF DIFFERENT HOUSE 
5. BUILDING CONSTRUCTION 1, 2

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What is civil engineering? an introduction

Before going to the actual subject or theoretical background of the topic; let me explain why this question is mostly asked? Basically, we as humans have a natural quest for knowledge; we observe different phenomena around us and try to investigate the scientific cause behind it. This question is result of that quest, We all live in houses and we all uses road, infrastructures, utilities etc, and then we try to think how they are build and who actually design and plan these sorts of products.

If you are a novice this would be your actual state of mind; so let us explore what civil engineering actually is; 

What is Civil Engineering?

Definition

Let us start by defining in so-called official words what civil engineering is? 

“Civil Engineering is the utilization of concepts and laws of engineering, in developing, designing and maintaining the modern infrastructure, utilities and environment for the betterment of human beings”

I hope this definition serves the purpose but let me elaborate it;

Civil Engineering! a branch of engineering

Because we can see that always we use the world “Civil Engineering” so it is obvious that civil engineering is a branch of engineering. Engineering is utilization of laws and principles of sciences like Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Computer sciences, Geology etc. in developing and designing various things. So we can say that scientists think about what is present in the world, or what is happening in the world, while engineers build or design what is not present in the world.

So in conclusion we can say that engineers start their work, where scientists ended.

What Civil Engineering does?

A simple answer to this question would be. Do you live in a house, yes we all do, houses, apartments, farm houses, guest houses etc, we while living in house uses water for cleaning purpose, for drinking purpose, civil engineers do every bit of it, from the slab you see on your roof, to the fixtures you see in your toilet. They design the proper slope for the drainage, they make the heavy stones of concrete span a significant amount of space over your room, they design how the load of furniture, humans, books etc transferred from slab to beam, from beam to column and then from column to the ground or soil by the help of foundation and footing. 

But that’s not all; you leave your house you step on the road, civil engineers design the mix of that road, its alignment, its width, shoulders, curb stones, foot path, the drainage gutters you see, the diameter of the pipes, the discharge calculation, the storm sewer, you see the rain water running over the road or pavement and roofs and going in a systematic manner to the domestic sewer or storm sewer, civil engineers do all of this. 

You drive the car on the road, you see the bridges, parks, water supply over head tanks all of these things are being tackled and handed by civil engineers, and civil engineers uses the concept of civil engineering. 

After reading above paragraphs you must say that “Oh! Yeah! Its very vast”, yes you are right, it has bundles of disciplines and bundles of laws and regulations. 

Civil Engineers also design the airports, the runways, their terminal buildings, the railways system, harbor and off shore construction. 

Just count it and the night will be over.

Subjects of Civil Engineering

What civil engineers study, Civil engineers study the most technical and practical subjects among all other engineering. The electrical engineers play with current defined by flow of charges, but they can’t see it whole of their lives, computer engineers, software engineers, telecom engineers they all just play with things not actually there. You might uses Windows in a house you might design its width depth etc. you might move it a bit up and down in building design and you might touch it feel it. But the windows you use on your laptops, PC you can’t do those things actually with it.

But that doesn’t mean they don’t have significance or impact on humans, they for surely are doing for the betterment of human beings. 

Civil Engineering as a Branch of Engineering

But Civil Engineering has its own charm, its own interesting problems, have its own interesting games.

Now back to the curriculum of civil engineering, the following are some of the subjects we study as a civil engineer;

• -          Strength of Materials
• -          Engineering Mechanics
• -          Civil Engineering Drawing
• -          Hydrology and Water Resource Management
• -          Theory of Structures
• -          Design of Steel Structures
• -          Design of Structures
• -          Hydraulics
• -          Transportation Engineering
• -          Reinforced Cement Concrete
• -          Properties of Concrete
• -          Civil Engineering Practices
• -          Fluid Mechanics
• -          Irrigation Engineering
• -          Computer Applications in civil engineering
• -          Construction, Planning and Mangement
• -          Environmental Engineering
• -          Foundation Engineering
• -          Geometry, Mathematics and Statics
• -          Earthquake engineering
• -          Geology and Geotechnical engineering
• -          Soil Mechanics

This whole list of subjects includes the most common subjects being taught in various institutions around the world. The name or pattern of the subject might vary from country to country and from institution to institution. 

What we civil engineers study in each of these subjects will be discussed in few coming posts so stay tuned. 

How to become a civil engineer?

You must now be asking this question after reading the above inspirational post; But let me be very clear in this respect, to become civil engineer is not as easy as it might look to you. There are a lot of challenges not just in the field but in academic level as well. You have a lot of labs and survey camps; you might have to do manual drawing by standing for hours on the drawing desk, you might have to play with dusty aggregates, hot black asphalt, heavy samples of concrete cubes and cylinders.

This is the basic reason why girls are reluctant to select civil engineering as their field of interest, but now the time has changed we see many civil engineering ladies in the field as project managers, design engineers.

What civil Engineers do? - just for Fun :P

From the academic point of view; you have to select pre-engineering after your matriculation or you have to select subjects like Physics, Mathematics and chemistry as your majors in O levels and A levels. 

After this you must have to appear in your local engineering college / university entry exam or some other 3^rd party exam which that college or university is taking as a criteria. 

You must have to get sufficient marks enough for you to beat the competition that might be there in renowned university or college. 

At the end you must have to be very passionate and very pumped up throughout your life, you must have to strong in your senses, physically and mentally. You must have strong tension absorber, you must know how to handle or manage various categories of people or various calibers. 

About the Degree

In the starting level Civil engineering in many countries is a 4 year Undergraduate programs along with Master program in any of the sub-disciplines that might extend up to 2 years, that might further go up to the Doctorate and Post-Doctorate depending upon what you really want in your career.

In most of the countries throughout the world 4 years of Undergraduate program is sufficient for you to earn a handsome livelihood, and can even make you the head of various departments in governmental and private sectors.

Experience in civil engineering is very important, all the jobs or posts need a fair amount of experience starting from minimum of 5 years which can go up to 30 years as well. 

Recognition of your civil engineering degree is very important from some genuine engineering councils of your country or you might have to pass a Professional Engineer (PE) exam to ensure the true worth your degree.

What people think about civil engineering?

This portion of the post is meant for civil engineers out there to speak about what civil engineering really is for them?. You can also participate in this campaign by liking our facebook page http://facebook.com/iamcivilengineerdotcomor you might comment there or you can also contact us or comment below under this post.

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• Rana Abdullah

  
  

  “father of all engineering”

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  Anuj Ghosh

  
  

   “- trained in the design and construction of public works, such as bridges or dams, and other large facilities.”

 From Editors Desk

 Civil Engineering is a very interesting and healthy earning profession, if you as a student has decided to select this as your profession; than let me tel you that you have decided to change your life; a very positive decision and a very healthy sign for you.

Just remain dedicated to your goal and you will achieve what you want to achieve in your life.

If you have any question you have a lot of options just speak out.

80 Final Year Project Ideas for Civil Engineering Students

Final Year is always been a fun and challenging time especially if you are an undergraduate student. You have so many fields to choose from and as a civil engineering there are alot of fields you can choose and still you don't know in which field you will get your income from; in this respect there is alot of question about the ideas of the final year project; in some universities this final year project has a very solid importance; and as after your graduation the companies in the interview of a job will question about your FYP; and if your FYP is up-to-mark and is very valuable for the company and the community; there are fair chances that you will get the job done; here is a list of some ideas of final year project in civil engineering. 

final year project

1. Civil Engineering Project Titles
2. Desilting of Tanks
3. Minor Irrigation Tanks
4. Time and Motion Study on Road Construction Techniques
5. Ferro Cement Grain Silos
6. Low Cost Roof Tiles
7. Rain Water collection and Storage
8. Lime Stabilized soil Blocks
9. Strength of Country Brick Walls laid in mud mortar
10. Investigation on Low Cost Roofing Units
11. Restoration of an irrigation Tank
12. Village Sanitation System
13. Study of Traditional Housing Practices
14. Ferro Cement Roofing Materials
15. Study of Unburnt Bricks
16. Labor Optimization in Earth Work
17. Reinforced Roofing Sheets
18. Fatigue of Human Labour in earth work
19. Wall Panels for Low cost Houses
20. Planning and designing of Low cost school buildings
21. Engineering study of a Traditional Industry 
22. Low Cost Light weight Roofing Tiles
23. Study on strength of compacted mud walls
24. Critical Study of Locally available materials for the manufacture of bricks
25. Low Cost School Building
26. Low Cost roofing Tiiles
27. Studies on Black Cotton Soil Mixed Copper Mines Wastes
28. Automatic Flow regulation for Canal - Tank Sluice
29. Low Cost Stablized Earth Bricks
30. Strength Characteristics of Surkhi Mortar
31. Bio Gas Plant with Ferro Cement Gas Holder
32. Tests on Pozzolana Mixtures
33. Study of Transportation needs in rural and semi - urban areas
34. Low cost Grain Storage Sturcture
35. Performance study of irrigation centrifugal pumps
36. Some studies on sisal Fibre Reinforced cement Aggregate Composites
37. Erosion Resistance studies on stablized mud blocks 
38. Hyrdogeological investigation, ground water quality and aquifer parameters
39. use of different Organic Wastes for production of bio gas
40. Investigation on fibre reinforced roofing system
41. Road Re Alignment
42. Soil Stabilization 
43. Stabilization of soil for bricks Puddled with organic Materials
44. Master plan for a Rural Settlement
45. Restoration of a Tank
46. Erosion Resistance studies on stabilized brick blocks
47. Steel fibre reinforced cement concrete
48. Critical Study of Augmentation Water Supply Scheme
49. Precast Stone Block Masonary
50. Low Cost Grain Storage Structures
51. Rural Water supply
52. Ground Water Inventory
53. Development of rainfall runoff relationship for small catchments
54. Investigation on nylo fibre Reinforced roofing units
55. Lime Stabilized Bricks
56. For Soil bricks subjected to accelerated weathering conditions
57. Mechanical properties of coirfibre reinforced cement composites
58. Rammed Earth Walls
59. Ground water potential and problems
60. Development and use of unit hydrograph
61. Theoretical and experimental studies of flow in canal bends
62. Block wise studies of rural houses
63. Reinforced brick panel
64. Drinking water quality standards in and around a city
65. Investigation of strength and cementation value of available lime and artificial hydraulic lime
66. Ground water Inventory
67. Evaluation of ground water resources and assessment of quality and its impact on dewellers and crop yeild
68. Operational Research in buildings
69. Six Sigma possibilities in building construction
70. Air pollution
71. Evaluation of uneven  pavement surface
72. Potential of superplasticisers in concrete practice 
73. Bond strength of bundled high yeild strength deforced bars
74. Some studies on the flow characterstic of super plasticised concrete
75. Engineering and natural resources study of a village
76. Qualitative analysis of irrigation water
77. Total station surveying
78. Soil distribution and engineering problems
79. Slump and strength characteristics of super plasticized concrete
80. Design of Flour Mill Effluent Treatment Plant.