Introduction to National Building Code and Steps in a Construction project

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

• A building codes is a set of rule to regulate the construction activities across the country.
• From the national building code list the groups that will be essential to you when you being modeling in Revit.
• We have to model a structure by using Revit with need to standard building codes.
• By achieving the Building codes of model, for only designing is not for main task, we have follow to some basic set of rule and regulations to ensure the safety and coordination.
• Because of, the buildings are classified such as residential houses, apartments, shopping mall, school, institutional building and hospital or any public building.
• So the building model can be differ on depending upon the requirement of needed , so far their decided to each different model of building need to different set of rules and regulation , this is called the building models or building standards.
• The main purpose of building codes are to ensure the safety to the people living from the place from disaster and problems.
• The building codes gives the set rules to standard building model for all problems in a site execution.

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

The national building Code(NBC) is a document that provides guidelines for construction of structures- Residential, institutional, school, hospital, assembly, storage spaces or hazardous building./

From national building code(NBC) the groups that will be essential for us to being the modeling in Autodesk Revit are:

• Civil engineering.
• Structural engineering.
• Plumbing engineering.
• Electrical engineering.
• Environmental specialist.
• Fire protection engineer.
• HVAC engineer.
• Rural and urban planner.
• Security system specialist.
• Landscape specialist.
• Interior designer.
• Quantity surveyor.
• Project manager.
• Construction manager.

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

• The project cycle is a process that in which consider the major factors of that include for planning, organizing, coordination, and controlling the whole project is effective and efficient.
• Under the project cycle we have five steps / stages , they are:

Project initiation.

Project planning.

Project execution.

Project performace/Monitoring.

Project closure.

Project Initiation :

• This is the first step of project cycle and here we set the goal and define our work.
• In this step we discuss about the project and start research about the project to identity the advantages and disadvantages in the project.
• For this steps to selection of site, selection of design, permission and documentation.

Project planning :

• The main role of consider the construction of steps as a planning or idea of the project is created.
• To prepare a basic layout of planning , because of we have some basic idea about to start the projects.
• In this step we have to make sure we come to a approximate conclusion about the budget of the project, duration, and dead line of the project and arrangement and accommodation of the labor for our site, in case of large projects.

Project Execution

• Before we start the execution to check all factors of our projects in site clearance, proper approval of building, designs and elevation modeling and site layout.
• The basics things in that surveying, deciding the materials required, storage and construction of the foundation.

Project performance/monitoring.

• In this step we follow the current scenario of whole project running at stage.
• Because of, every situation will make the cause for under execution purpose .
• Take a all prevention of site, to reduce the causing and to appoint the site supervisors, managers, labor contractor as to follow the project as per planned.

Project closure

• The final stage of project is closure of whole project.
• For here we have the attention of achieving the quality of structure and handing over the project within the correct duration after checking and inspecting the site.

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

• Structural engineering.
• Architects.
• Commissioning authority.
• Electrical engineering.
• Information technologies.
• construction.
• Finance and estimating.
• Contracts and bids.
• Geotechnical engineering.
• Construction management.
• surveying.

5.How are the buildings classified ? Place the following buildings under each category

The buildings are basically under the basis of occupancy and type of construction.

There are different types of buildings like :

• Residential buildings.
• Educational buildings.
• Business buildings.
• Wholesale establishments.
• Hazardous buildings.
• Storage buildings.
• Detached buildings.
• Institutional buildings.
• Mercantile buildings.
• Industrial buildings.
• Assembly buildings.
• High-rise buildings.
• Military building.
• Religious building.

Four unit appartments : Residential building.

School with a capacity of 1000 students : Educational building.

A single unit shop : mercatile building.

Multi store shopping complex : commercial building.

Steel machine factory : Industrial building.

6.Distinguish the roles of Design team and management team.

• In our construction work we need both the Design team and management team to complete the project.

Design team :

• The design team can also be called architects.
• The design team is more than just a group of people who coordinates and plan accordingly to complete the work with the help of team work.
• A team contains many people and each one of them is assigned a specific task in which they are perfect.
• The design team is totally responsible for the idea and design.
• The architect give us a plan for the suitable area and shape of the site.
• They plan the building in such a way that we can use the maximum area even after leaving the set backs.
• The architects design the plan and provide a 3D view so that we can understand the complete data about the building even before its constructed.

Management team :

• The management team is a set of engineers who have mastered in different fields like structural, plumbing, electrical, civil and so on.
• The management team or the engineers are the one is going to implement the plans which are created by the design team.
• They plan an important role in executing and carrying out the work.
• They ensure the safety and supervising the works and find the solutions to the difficulties t the site, as we cannot say that everything goes as planned.
• The role of project managers , supervisors, and the site managers are to look after the needs of the labour and keep a check on the daily work completed and progress of the work.

7.Refer to NBC, identify the modeling requirements for the projects.

AIM

To modify the project created in week 4 as per the rules of NBC.

PROCEDURES

• To open the previous residential plan.
• All criteria are considered to according the NBC rules.
• The dimensions of exterior wall thickness is 8 inch at residential buildings.
• The dimensions of interior wall thickness is 4 inch at residential buildings.
• Floor thickness is 4 inch.
• The roof or ceiling thickness is 6 inch.
• The floor height is 10 feet.
• For example , the maximum height of building shall not exceed 1.5 times the width of road abutting plus the front open space.
• The height of the all rooms for human habitations shall not be less than 2.75m measured from the surface of the floor.
• Go to Elevation view and change the floor height is 10 feet as per NBC.
• At last go to 3D view to check whether the entire project is perfect or not.

RESULTS

The above steps and NBC values we can modify the normal plan into a correct plan which follows NBC rules and regulations.

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

From my previous designed plan I have changed and modified the building plan as per the rules of NBC.

• As per the NBC we know that the height of the building does not exceed 1.5 times the width of the road.
• The height should not exceed 1.5 times the width of the road because if the height is more than that, the building in front will not receive sunlight.

For example

• The width of the road in front of my residential building is 10m, so the maximum height of my building should not exceed the value is 1.5 x 10 = 15m.
• Our building height is 20 feet , in which converted into meters. 20/3.28 = 6.09m.
• As the height of my building is 6.09m, which is less than 15m, so do not have any problem regarding the height of the building.