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Civil engineering is a wide profession that comprises several specializations including construction, structural, transportation, and environmental engineering. The expertise of each discipline is usually utilized in the accomplishment of projects related to the other disciplines of civil engineering.
For example, construction engineers would be intimately involved with transport engineers while an airport is being constructed. Construction engineering involves the planning, execution and management of construction works such as buildings, airports, highways, dams and bridges.
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Course Curriculum
Module 1
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Building Construction
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Site Selection for a building, Orientation and Setting out for construction
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Layout Techniques with special reference to buildings Excavation in different types of soils
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Masonry construction
Module 2
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Types of stone and brick masonry; bonds in brick masonry, Alignments, Plumbs, leveling & cambering
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Form work for general in-situ construction, props, bracing and horizontal shuttering platforms
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Damp proofing in building, Interior and
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various types of floors & roofing systems, planner & non-planer roofing system, roof treatments
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Assignments
Module 3
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Expansion joints and construction joints
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Wood work in building construction
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an over view of construction aspects of different types of engineering projects, e.g. buildings, retaining structures, bridges
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Construction specification
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Common defects in building construction their causes and remedial measures
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Assignments
Exam
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Draft Lesson
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Exam
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