Construction Technology: Design Consideration for Substructures and Superstructures

LO1. Explain the terminology used in construction technology.

LO2. Describe the different techniques used to construct a range of substructures and superstructures, including their function and design selection criteria.

You are working as a Civil Engineering Technician for a large civil engineering consultancy and your employer has asked you to produce ‘design consideration’ pamphlets to be distributed to new employees. The documents are to consider the functional requirements and design selection criteria for different elements of:

Shopping centre on the town retail park,

Light-weight warehouse.

Sustainability, environmental issues, on-site and off-site construction technologies, legal and health & safety requirements should be considered.

This document should consider the pre-design studies to be carried out and the type of information to be collated in order to design the most suitable foundation types for the given projects.

The document should also consider the construction of different types of foundations and their suitability for use with different types of structures.

In the pamphlet (for D1), you must evaluate how the functional characteristics and design selection criteria impact on the eventual design solution.

This document should consider the following elements of the superstructure for the shopping centre project:

• Walls
• Roofs
• Floors – ground and intermediate
• Windows and doors
• Staircases
• Finishes

The document should contain a description of the functional characteristics of each of the above elements and the design selection criteria for their use.

Both documents should contain diagrams to illustrate the content. Each pamphlet is to be indexed with a checklist for use by technicians when carrying out design considerations.

For prepare a design report identifying superstructure, substructure and civil engineering structures necessary for a given building construction project.

For both you must select non-biased and reliable sources of information when justifying your analysis. This distinction grade will only be awarded if the assessor is satisfied that you have reflected on reliable research material (fully referenced) to form the basis of your judgements.

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Describe the differences between residential, commercial and industrial buildings.

Explain how the functional characteristics and design selection criteria are informed by proposed building use.

Discuss the ways in which sustainability can be promoted in building projects.

Apply the terminology used inconstruction technology to a given building construction project.

Evaluate how the functional characteristics and design selection criteria impact on the eventual design solution.

Describe the different techniques used to construct a range of substructures and superstructures, including their function and design selection criteria.

Prepare a designreport identifying superstructure,substructure and civil engineering structures necessary for a given building construction project.

Describe the predesign studies carried out and types of information collected for a given construction site.

Explain the functional characteristics and design criteria for primary and secondary elements of a building substructure and superstructure