Introduction to National Building Code and Steps in a Construction project

1) Why are building codes or standards essential for the modeling/ efficiency of drawings in Revit ?

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• A set of standards that are uniform to all stracture
• to protect the constration sefety
• its help full in modern constraction sefety
• it provides standerd values for building consraction
• every country have heir own standerd building codes are prepared by the use , weather conditions and material availabulity, soil strength.
• these codes are worth to do constraction of building shapes and sizes of elements to place like door , ventilation and wall thickness.
• these building codes are consious about public health during constraction and after residentialy
• these standerd also help the govt agencies appprove the planes
• these codes and standerds are mainly considered governament officers to approve the residential and commersical to the plans
• Approved by the Authority having jurisdiction.

2) From the National Building Code list the groups that will be essential to you when you begin modeling in Autodesk Revit.

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Group A : residential buildings

Group B Educational buildings

Group c :Assembly buildings

Group D :Institutinal building

Group E: Mercential building

Group F: business building

Group G: storage buildins

Group H: industrial buildings

Group I: Hazardous buildings

3) List the five major steps that occur in project cycle . The steps should include from conceptualization of project to maintenance and final stage.

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1. Initiation
2. Planing
3. Excution
4. Closure

1. Initiation: It is necessary to figure out the project, figure out objective of the project detemeine the project is feezable and idified the major deleverabiles from the project the major step involving intiation stage of identified the code field work annalysing and figureout obstacles to study while the planing figure occured
2. Planing: in this stage after approve the project intiation approved is prepared after that big project broken into parts build a team regarding project to give each person to small goals to well prepared in a short period of time. In this stage project related drawins and budget planing and prepare estimation of the building gathering the resouceses.
3. EXcution: In this stage we have to breefing regarding project to our team and discussion with teams to monitering the work then finally manageing budget.
4. Closer: In this final stage we release the project deliverabiles the sucess of the project to anlyzing the project performance team performance documentation of poject closer. post implementing reviews and finalysing accountes used and unused budget so they are all stages include project cycle.

4) Give examples of different disciplines involved in construction of a project

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CONSTRACTION: in this include a project start to end excution and civil emgneer is examine the site in excution and aso contact with contracter clint mange the work

FINANCE AND ESTIMATION: in stage calculte budget bids and finacial aspects in cluded by accoutant

CONTRACT AND BIDS : discussion about regarding bids and finacial budget preparation

GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEER : Enquiry regarding the ground soil strength and stability of project, calculate design calculation and foundation design apply of eartyhquake loads and design the calculation of loads

MANAGEMENT: It is regarding th equipment and require elements in the field availabilty in econamicaly statical report is prepared

STRACTURAL: In this stage stractural members prepare the stractural drawing about foundation abd stability of stracturely calculated.

SURVEYING : Mesure site physicaly anlyzing the features of elevation and plan diviation examinated.

5) How are buildings classified ? Place the following buildings under each category
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Buildings are clasified in to

1. residential
2. educational
3. institutional assembly
4. business
5. mercetile
6. industrial
7. storage
8. hazardous

a. Four unit apartments - group-A residential building
b. School with capacity of 1000 students - group-B educational building
c. A single unit shop.- group E- mercentile building
d. Multi story Shopping complex-group E- mercentile building
e. Steel machine factory- industrial building

6) Distinguish the roles of Design team and Management team

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DESIGN TEAM:

• Helps to finalise the plan
• Evaluationaries in the project
• Implementation the designs

MANAGEMENT TEAM:

• Accompliment of projec
• excute the design
• Achive the satisfactory completion of the project

7) Refer to NBC, Identify the modeling requirements for the project ( from week 4).

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a. Height Limitations:
b. Area Limitations
c. Room sizing
d. Wall height
e. Thickness based on fire life and safety
f. Passageway requirements

a. Height Limitations:The height of building shall not exceed 15 m.
NOTES
1. For buildings up to the height of 15 m, there is no need toprovide lifts.
2 .Housing for the low-income group shall preferably be up toa maximum of two storeys.
3 .Buildings for housing beyond 15 m in height should beresorted to in exceptional circumstances and it should begoverned by provisions laid down in this Code.

b. Area Limitations :The minimum plot size with ground coverage not exceeding 75 percent, shall not be less than 40 m2 in small and medium town and not less than 30 m2 in metropolitan cities. Plot sizes below 30 m2 but not less than 15 m2 may be permitted in case of cluster planning, however, in such cases the ground coverage and FSI shall be 100 percent and 2 percent respectively

c. Room sizing : Every dwelling unit to be provided should have at least two habitable rooms. Even if one room house is provided initially it should be capable of adding a new second room in future. However, in case single room tenements are required to be provided where future additions are not possible, the carpet area of multipurpose single room should be at least 12.5 m2. Such one room dwelling units with 12.5 m2 carpet area of habitable space is permitted only in case of on site rehabilitation of slum dwellers. In a house of two rooms, first room shall not be less than 9.0 m2 with minimum width of 2.5 m and second room shall not be less than 6.5 m2 with a minimum width of 2.1 m provided the total area of both the rooms is not less than 15.5 m2 . In incremental housing the bigger room shall always be the first room.

d. Wall height: According to NBC 2005, class f-3.4 height of the roof and walls is

Habitabile room: 2.75m

kitchen -2.6m

bath ?water closet is 2.2m

caridor -2.1m

In case sloping roof the averge height of the habitable room shall be 2.2.75m and the minimum height of the eves shall be 2.1m.

e. Thickness based on fire life and safety: in my model outer wall thickness is 9inches and internal wall 4.5" hence NBC is approved correct

f. Passageway requirements:

8) We have identified requirements for modeling from question 7, Use these numbers from code book and verify the numbers used in modeling the unit from week 2 to week 4. If the numbers are not reasonable, use the numbers obtained from the code book to create a revision of the mode.

This model resembles the actual modeling requirements for Project 1 of course work

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I VERIFIED THE REQUIREMENTS HENCE PROVED.