Certification Course in Building Construction & Engineering

CERTIFICATION COURSE IN BUILDING CONSTRUCTION AND SITE ENGINEERING

LEARN ABOUT THE BUILDING CONSTRUCTION OVERVIEW, EARTHWORK , SHORING, FOUNDATION SYSTEMS, CAST-IN-PLACE CONCRETE BUILDINGS, PRECAST CONCRETE BUILDINGS, STRUCTURAL STEEL BUILDINGS, BRICK MASONRY BUILDINGS, TIMBER CONSTRUCTION, WATER PROOFING , GEO SYNTHETICS, STRUCTURAL GLASS, FIRE PROOFING, TEMPORARY TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT ETC.

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1. 1.1 How buildings may vary and Importance of Learning about Construction
2. 1.2 Basic Workflow of a Construction Project, Draft Schematic Arrangement and Responsibilities
3. 1.3 Can we construct any building wherever deemed possible?
4. 1.4 What are Building Regulations, their governing bodies, and Building Construction Codes
5. 1.5 International Building Codes and Energy Codes adopted in various countries
6. 1.6 Importance of Seismic Resistant Codes for Building Safety
7. 1.7 Classification of Construction Sector i.e. Residential, Non-Residential and Infrastructure Construction
1. 2.1 Stage 1 - Planning and Approvals from Authority having Legal Control
2. 2.2 Stage 2 - Financial Planning, Safeguards and Contingency Plans
3. 2.3 Stage 3 - Legal and Contract Agreements
4. 2.4 Stage 4 - Procurement - Design Bid Build Projects
5. 2.5 Stage 4- Procurement - Design Build Projects (Contractor Led and Architect Led)
6. 2.6 Stage 5-6-7 - Structural Design - On site Construction - Commissioning Stage
1. 3.1 Hard Hat Professionals - Carpenter, Electrician, Welder, Mason etc.
2. 3.2 Architects -Scope, Fees, and Licensing Requirements
3. 3.3 Civil Engineers, Structural Engineers, Project Managers, and their Scope
1. 4.1 Classification of Soil as per Codes and How to assess the type with naked eye?
2. 4.2 Why Soil Investigation is Required and How to decide the Inputs for testing?
3. 4.3 Thumb Rules for approximate Depth of Bore Holes required for investigation
4. 4.4 Methods of Taking Disturbed and Undisturbed Samples of Soil for Testing
5. 4.5 Standard Penetration Test, Cone Penetrometer Test & Why we dig deep into ground?
6. 4.6 Frost Depth, Ground Water Table and Plate Load Test
7. 4.7 Understanding Sample Geotechnical Report - Practical Example
8. 4.8 Thumb rules to differentiate sand and clay at site
9. 4.9 What if the client does not want a geotechnical report?
10. 4.10 How to do the Backfilling and Compaction at the site?
11. 4.11 Civil Excavation and Structure Excavation including Equipments for Excavation
12. 4.12 Slope Cutting, Soil Benching and Understanding Angle of Repose
13. 4.13 Understanding Trench Shoring Arrangement
14. 4.14 Understanding Steel Soldier Piles Shoring Arrangement
15. 4.15 Understanding Soil Nailing System for Shoring
16. 4.16 Understanding Secant Pile Wall System for Shoring
17. 4.17 Understanding Sheet Piling system for Shoring
18. 4.18 Introduction to Slurry-Diaphragm walls for Shoring
19. 4.19 How to do Dewatering During Construction
1. 5.1 What is meant by Demolition and Deconstruction?
2. 5.2 Mass Grading and Controlling Soil Erosion
3. 5.3 Setting out of Building at Contruction Site - Horizontal Control and Vertical Control
4. 5.4 Temporary Shoring, Site Office Installation and Construction of Utilities
5. 5.5 Drilling and Blasting, Rock Bolts and Rock Jumbos for Excavation in Rocks
1. 6.1 Role of Foundations in buildings, Permissible Settlement and Case study
2. 6.2 Meaning of Superstructure, Substructure and Foundations, Frost Depth and Type of Foundations in Buildings
3. 6.3 Shallow Foundation - Isolated, Strip and Wall Foundation with Detailing
4. 6.4 Frost Depth, Frost Heaving and Protection of Foundation from Frost Action
5. 6.5 Why Buildings should never rest on Back Filled Soil?
6. 6.6 Slab on Grade Foundation, Meaning of Crawl Space with Pictures
7. 6.7 Foundation of Buildings on Hills, Combined and Eccentric Foundations
1. 7.1 Deep Foundations-Caissons, Socketed Caissons, End Bearing and Friction Piles
2. 7.2 Method statement for Bored RCC Piling-Setting out, Drilling and Casting of Pile Foundations
3. 7.3 Role of Bentonite Slurry, Fabrication, Lowering of Pile Steel Cage and Concreting of Piles with Tremie
4. 7.4 Understanding Pile Caps with Types, Shuttering Arrangement of Pile Caps
5. 7.5 Precast Piles, Specifications, and Installation Method
6. 7.6 Raker Piles, Pile Driving Rigs, Timber Piles, Impact Hammer and Vibratory Hammer Method
1. 8.1 Constituents of Concrete, Major types of Cement with their Chemistry and Applications
2. 8.2 Introduction and Advantages of PPC, Fly Ash, GGBS and Silica Fume
3. 8.3 Sand, Aggregates and Water as Constituent of Concrete with Applications and Minimum Requirements
4. 8.4 Air Entraining, Accelerating and Retarding Admixtures with Various Examples of Applications
5. 8.5 Manufacturing of Concrete with Mixers, Hand Mixing, Volume Batching with Ready Mix Concrete Plants
6. 8.6 Placement of Concrete-Concrete Buckets, Buggies, Barrows, Chutes, Pumps and Boom Placers
7. 8.7 Compaction with Vibrators and Curing of Concrete with Membrane and Steam Curing
8. 8.8 Workability, Slump Test of Concrete, Shotcrete and Guniting
1. 9.1 Slabs on Grade, Suspended Concrete Slabs, Beam Supported Slabs, One-Way & Two-Way Slabs
2. 9.2 Formwork for Slabs, Flat Slab Systems, Waffle Slabs and Cantilever Slabs
3. 9.3 Concrete beams, Load paths and Reinforcement arrangement
4. 9.4 Concrete Columns, Concrete Structural Walls, Staircases and Concrete Shells with Rebar and Formwork Arrangement
5. 9.5 Rebar Specifications in Australia, Canada, US, and India (Grade, Diameter and Nomenclature)
6. 9.6 Concrete Spacers, Binding Wire, Bending Machine and Concrete Chairs
1. 10.1 Precast Concrete Construction-Wall Panels, Slabs and other Precast Elements
2. 10.2 Precast Concrete Slabs, Floors, Beams and Types with Specifications
3. 10.3 Spun Piles, Precast Concrete Connections -Types and Specifications with Joint Sealants
1. 11.1 Hot Rolled Steel Beam Sections-I Beam, Channels, Uniform Beams, Uniform Columns, L-Angles, C-Channels
2. 11.2 Z-Shaped & C-Shaped Purlins, Square Hollow, Rectangular Hollow and Circular Hollow Sections, Bars, Rods, L-Angles and Understanding Properties
3. 11.3 Standard Steel Sections in Europe, USA & Thumb rules of Minimum Construction Dimensions of Steel Buildings
4. 11.4 Open Web Steel Joists - Meaning & Applications with Properties
5. 11.5 Castellated Beams, Pratt Truss, Warren Truss, North Light Truss, Saw Tooth Truss, and Flink Truss with Examples and Advantages
6. 11.6 Foundation Bolts, Nuts with Types and Fabricated Plate Girder Sections
7. 11.7 Steel deck sheets, Shear studs and Specifications with Installation Methods
8. 11.8 Pipe Racks, Industrial heavy Steel Structures, Practical Construction site visit, Erection of Horizontal and Vertical Vessels
9. 11.9 Sheeting/Cladding, Grating, Diamond plate for Industrial Flooring and Applications
10. 11.10 Steel Warehouses, Standard Frames, Cable Bracing Systems, Mezzanine Flooring Systems, Roof Monitors and Curved Built-up Members
11. 11.11 Sheeting Panels, Gantry Cranes, Crane Brackets and Crane Rails
12. 11.12 Steel Structure Transmission Towers, Arrangement and Specifications - Tubular Steel Towers and Lattice Steel Towers
13. 11.13 Steel Structure Foot Over Bridges and Steel Sports Stadium Structure Arrangement
14. 11.14 Fire Protection of Steel structures- Thin Film, Thick Film Intumescent Coatings, fire Protection Boards and Spray Protection Systems
15. 11.15 Riveted Connections, Bolted Connections and Welded Connections with Types and Specifications
16. 11.16 Light Gauge Steel Structure (Cold Form Structures) with Practical Examples
17. 11.17 Tension Fabric Structures with Practical Case Studies
1. 12.1 Principles of Stone Masonry Construction with Examples and Applications
2. 12.2 Type of Stone Masonry Construction-Rubble and Ashlar Masonry with Types, Specifications and Examples
3. 12.3 Stone Masonry Walls- Weep holes, Bonding elements, Construction Specifications and Methodology
4. 12.4 Retrofitting of Stone Masonry Construction-Specifications and Methods
1. 13.1 Flat Roof System and its waterproofing
2. 13.2 Mono Pitch Roof, Saw Tooth Roof, Butterfly Roof, and other Roofing Systems
3. 13.3 How to Calculate Pitch and Slope of the Roof
4. 13.4 Roof Tiles, Roof Shingles, and Applications in Buildings
1. 14.1 Dead, Live, Construction and Equipment Loads on Building during Construction
2. 14.2 Retaining Walls - Gravity, Cantilever, Counterfort, Buttress, Gabion, Tieback, Keystone Retaining Walls
3. 14.3 Stainless Steel in Buildings and Bridges, Austenitic and Duplex Stainless Steel with Practical Case Studies
4. 14.4 Traffic Control on the Construction Site, Work Zones in Infrastructure Projects, and Transition Planning
5. 14.5 Truck Mounted Attenuators, Design Guidelines and TTC Contract
1. 15.1 Controlled Low Strength Material in Buildings and Infrastructure
2. 15.2 Radon Mitigation and Active Soil Depressurization
3. 15.3 Mechanically Stabilized Earth, Geosynthetics, Geotextiles, Geogrids, Geomembranes, Geofoam, Geocomposites and Geocells
4. 15.4 Wick Drains (PVD) and Gabions Application
5. 15.5 Mechanically stabilized Earth or Reinforced Earth with different applications
6. 15.6 Basement Water Proofing Sytems - External and Integral Water proofing Systems
7. 15.7 Masonry Paving, Glass Bricks and Steel/Concrete Lintels in Buildings
1. 16.1 Types of Glass - Annealed Glass, Toughened Glass, Heat Strengthened Glass, Laminated Glass, Security Glass, Fire Rated Glass
2. 16.2 Impact Glazing, Ionoplast Interlayers, PVBs and Glass Coefficients for Light and Heat Transmittance
3. 16.3 Case studies of Glass Buildings, Glass Floors and Glass Facades
4. 16.4 Glass Facades, Connection types and Glass Fins
5. 16.5 Spider Connections, Glass Structural Silicon Sealants, Bolted Connections and Different Case Studies
1. 17.1 Introduction to Timber/Lumber, Available Sizes, Units of Measurement with Availability in USA, and Europe
2. 17.2 Veneers, Laminated Veener Lumber (LVL), Parallel Strand Lumber (PSL) and Engineered Wood Joist
3. 17.3 Glulam Beams, Hybrid Glulam Beams, Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) Beams, -Properties and Practical Applications
4. 17.4 Bamboo in Buildings, Plywood, Oriented Strand Boards (OSB) and Application of Timber in Buildings with Practical Examples
5. 17.5 Seasoning of Timber with Types, Moisture Content and Defects in Lumber/Timber
6. 17.6 Timber/Lumber Fireproofing, Connections in Timber - Nails, Screws, Connector Plates etc. with Examples
1. 18.1 Brick Buildings Construction, Plinth Bands, Type of Brick Bonds with Examples
2. 18.2 Lime Mortar, OPC Mortar, Confined Masonry Structure and its significance, Seismic behavior of Masonry Buildings with Examples

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$12.99
120 lessons
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WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN THIS COURSE?

This Construction Engineering specialization course is curated for professionals in the construction and civil engineering industry looking to advance their careers.

Through this specialization, students 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.

PROFESSIONAL UPSKILL OPPURTINITIES FOR

Construction Professionals

Architects

Construction Project Managers

Structural Engineers

Entry Level Structural Engineers

Young Engineering Graduates

Civil Engineers

PEB Engineers

Heavy Industrial Engineering Professionals

Anyone who wants to build a Career in Civil Engineering

COURSE CURRICULUM

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 Studies
Soil Testing, Excavation and Backfilling with Thumb Rules

Thumb 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.
Shoring, Civil Excavation and Structure Excavation Methods

Civil 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 Utilities
Shallow Foundations for Buildings

Role 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 Foundations
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 Piles
Cast-In-Situ Concrete- Placement, Curing and Testing

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
Precast Concrete Structures, Tension Fabric Structures, Geosynthetics and Light Gauge Steel Structures

Precast 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 Sytems
Structural Steel Buildings

Hot 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 Connections
Stone Masonry and Brick Masonry Buildings

Principles 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 Examples
Glass in Buildings, Retaining Walls, Stainless Steel & Temporary Traffic Control

Types 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 Contract
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 Examples
Demolition, Mass Grading, Drilling /Rock Blasting, Roofing of the Buildings

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

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Case Studies

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Practical Learning Techniques

This course gives you easy access to the Invaluable Practical Learning Techniques used by Professionals for Construction and Site Engineering Management

Unit-1: Introduction to Building Construction, Codes , Regulations and Classification

Unit-2: Seven Stages of Construction Project and their Implementation with Case Studies

Unit-3: List of Professional involved in Building Construction, Their Roles, Scope and Fees

Unit-4: Soil Testing, Excavation and Shoring Methods used in the Construction with Thumb Rules

Unit-5: Demolition , Mass Grading , Setting out of the Buildings, Shoring ,Drilling and Rock Blasting

Unit-6: Shallow Building Foundations, Types, Frost Depth , Back Filled Soil, Slab on Grade Foundation and Building on Hills

Unit-7: Deep Building Foundations, Method Statement, Pile Caps and Precast Piles with Pile Driving Rigs

Unit-8: Concrete as a Building Material with Constituents, Placement, Compaction, Curing and Testing

Unit-9: Cast in Situ Concrete Structures -Beams, Columns, Slabs, Walls with Rebar Arrangement and Construction

Unit-10: Precast Concrete Structures-Wall Panels, Slabs, Beams , Piles with Connections and Specifications

Unit-11: Structural Steel Buildings Construction, Fabrication, Types and Erection with Steel Connections types and Fire Protection Systems

Unit-12: Stone Masonry Buildings-Construction, Systems, Stone Masonry Walls, and Seismic Retrofitting

Unit-13: Roofing of the Buildings with Types, Roof Shingles, Roof Tiles, Wate Proofing of the Roofs

Unit-14: Loads on Buildings during Construction, Retaining Walls and Stainless Steel in Buildings, Bridges and Temporary Traffic Control

Unit-15: CLSM, Geosynthetics, Wick Drains, Gabions , MSE , Lintels and Water proofing Sytems

Unit-16: Glass in Buildings -Types, Interlayers, Connections, and types with Case studies

Unit-17: Timber /Lumber Frame Buildings- Material, Types of Lumbers and Application

Unit-18: Brick Masonry Buildings- Material, Types of Bonds and Applications

About this course

Basics of Building Construction

Soil Testing, Excavation and Backfilling with Thumb Rules

Shoring, Civil Excavation and Structure Excavation Methods

Shallow Foundations for Buildings

Deep Foundations for Buildings

Cast-In-Situ Concrete- Placement, Curing and Testing

Precast Concrete Structures, Tension Fabric Structures, Geosynthetics and Light Gauge Steel Structures

Structural Steel Buildings

Stone Masonry and Brick Masonry Buildings

Glass in Buildings, Retaining Walls, Stainless Steel & Temporary Traffic Control

Timber/Lumber Frame Buildings

Demolition, Mass Grading, Drilling /Rock Blasting, Roofing of the Buildings

Downloadable PPTs

Exclusive Content

Case Studies