Career Episode 1: Construction of a New Building

CAREER EPISODE 1
Introduction:
CE 1.1 I will describe about my experience in constructing a new building after removing
an existing establishment in my first career episode.
The extend action begun in Eminent 2015 and proceeded till September 2016. I
worked as a Structural Design Engineer in UMANG PATEL CONSULTING CIVIL
ENGINEER AND STRUCTURAL DESIGNER. The association was headquartered
in Ahmedabad, India.
Background:
CE1.2 Company providing professional consulting services for construction,
engineering, structure and property markets.
Company giving proficient counselling’s administrations for Architects and
manager, structural engineers and cost consultants. The company works for
Indian EPC servicers, corporates, inventors, international companies, financial
partnerships, and government establishments. This company has executed large
missions in housing, marketable, and manufacturing levels. This firm has more
than 20 years of involvement and executed more than 1000 ventures nationwide.
CE1.3 The key venture scope was to exertion on the construction of a G+5 brand-new
building on a plot where there was previously an establishment. In any case,
the prerequisite was to totally clear the development location by pulverizing the
existing establishment and begin developing the recently proposed plan. My
association held the contract to work on the scheme and I was one of the
significant adherents of the group conveyed for the errand.
CE1.4 I performed the following responsibilities in the project.
 Carrying out the development spot surveys.
 Checking and appraising manufacturing design documents and implementation
modifications
 Employed with related engineering crews to ensure that the building design is
error free and effective
 Preparing the various load and stress estimations of the planned engineering
structures
 Finalizing the superiority of the materials, concrete blend and so on for
structures
 Managing the structure and material necessities
 Procurement planning and building regulations approval
 Working with relevant professional team such as architects and geotechnical
 Coordinating staff and deliveries of construction material
 Mentoring and monitoring labours and contractors working on the project

 Safeguarding excellence of design that’s created on a venture to abolish any
option of mistake or revise
 Working thoroughly with the project administration, customers, and project
resources
 Maintaining effort estimates and weekly project progress reports
CE1.5 The following organisational chart highlights my position as a Structural Engineer in
the project.
Chairman
Chief Executing
Department of Civil
Engineering
Construction
Engineering
Geotechnical
Engineering
Mechanical
Engineering
Structural
Engineering
Structural Design
Engineer
Cad Technician

Personal Engineering Activity:
CE1.6 The engineers and architects were assigned the task to prepare the design of the
building and I reviewed the received designs to ensure that the design can resist
earthquake, wind load, and provide stability to the structure by demonstrating
stiffness and resistance against the displacement of the building. I took
the obligation to screen the extend procedures on an everyday premise. To
accomplish the mission purposes, I confirmed handling the staffs, choosing the
furthermost real raw material and determining the disputes arising in the structure
site and so on.
CE1.7 I consulted the architects and landscape engineers to carry out the place scrutiny
to check whether the proposed site could comply with the proposed engineering
drawings and designs and they are effective adequate to be executed. Then I
organized completely required documentation to be submitted to the municipality
bureaucrats for the approval of the venture so that the project work could
commence. I also safeguarded to escort the government administrators and clarify
them the design intensely when they derived for the site examinations.
CE1.8 I studied the initial engineering drawings and building designs succumbed through
the architects. Evaluation to the design well and suggest actual alterations, I
divided the building design into several designable units.
The substances included cellar, establishment,floors, chunks & pillars, strengthene
d dividers, stairs, carports, lift and so on. I utilized the STAAD.pro software to
compute the loads on each of the object once more to authenticate the design and
confirm that it can withstand load when applied into authentic structure. I used
ETABS software to get stress analysis in slabs, shear force for the beam and area
reinforcement for the columns as designing the foundation was dependent upon
the reaction and height of the foundation level was dependent upon site and safe
bearing capacity of the soil stability.
CE1.9 I used numerous engineering formulae and Microsoft Excel to obtain the dead
load, wind loads, live loads and seismic loads. I utilized the advanced
functionalities of the AutoCAD software to draft a framing plan with required sizes
of columns and beams. I worked closely with the designers and conversed the
projected proposal with them. Afterward getting their endorsement, I worked on
designing a skeletal structure considering the dimensions and sizes adhering to the
manufacturing drawings organized through the architects.
CE1.10 I considered the live load as 2 KN/m2 since the analysis and design was planned
to be carried out for residential building as per IS Code 875 part-2 and as there
was no need of giving Dead load in ETABS which is an advantageous thing. I
provided wall load as 16.48 KN/m2 and for inner walls 8.24 KN/m2. I provided the
floor finish to be 0.6 KN/m. I considered the following dimensions for the design:
Grade of concrete for slab, beam, column: M20, Column Sizes = 250X360 mm,
Beam Size = 250X360 mm, Slab thickness = 160 mm, Number of Stories = 5,