Design Concepts of Building Services detailed Syllabus for Civil Engineering (CIVIL), 2018 scheme has been taken from the VTUs official website and presented for the VTU students. For Course Code, Subject Names, Teaching Department, Paper Setting Board, Theory Lectures, Tutorial, Practical/Drawing, Duration in Hours, CIE Marks, Total Marks, Credits and other information, visit full semester subjects post given below. The Syllabus PDF files can also be downloaded from the official website of the university.
For all the other VTU CIVIL 7th Sem Syllabus for BE 2018 Scheme, visit Civil Engineering 7th Sem 2018 Scheme.
For all the (Professional Elective-3) subjects refer to Professional Elective-3 Scheme. The detail syllabus for design concepts of building services is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Module 1
Water Supply and its Services. Water requirements for different types of buildings, simple method of removal of impurities, water saving practices and their potential Service connection from mains, sump and storage tank, types and sizes of pipes, special installation in multistoried buildings. Material, types of fixtures and fitting for a contemporary bathroomtaps -quarter turn, half turn, ceramic, foam flow etc, hot water mixer, hand shower Rainwater harvesting to include roof top harvesting, type of spouts, sizes of rainwater pipes and typical detail of a water harvesting pit.
Module 2
Heat Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC): Behaviour of heat propagation, thermal insulating materials and their co-efficient of thermal conductivity. General methods of thermal insulation: Thermal insulation of roofs, exposed walls. Ventilation: Definition and necessity, system of ventilation. Principles of air conditioning, Air cooling, Different systems of ducting and distribution, Essentials of air-conditioning system.
Module 3
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Module 4
Plumbing and Fire Fighting Layout of Simple Buildings: Application of above studies in preparing layout and details-Plumbing layout of residential and public buildings, Fire fighting layout, Reflected ceiling plan of smoke detectors / sprinklers, etc.
Module 5
Engineering Services: engineering services in a building as a system, Lifts, escalators, cold and hot water systems, waste water systems and electrical systems. Pumps and Machineries: Reciprocating, Centrifugal, Deep well, Submersible, Automatic pumps, Sewerage pumps, Compressors, Vacuum pump-their selection, installation and maintenance-Hot water boilers -Classification and types of lifts, lift codes, rules structural provision: escalators, their uses, types and sizes, safety norms to be adopted-Social features required for physically handicapped and elderly, DC/AC motors, Generators, Building Maintenance: Preventive and protective maintenance, Scheduled and contingency maintenance planning, M.I.S. for building maintenance. Maintenance standards. Economic maintenance decisions.
Course Outcomes:
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Question paper pattern:
- The question paper will have ten full questions carrying equal marks.
- Each full question will be for 20 marks.
- There will be two full questions (with a maximum of four sub- questions) from each module.
- Each full question will have sub- question covering all the topics under a module.
- The students will have to answer five full questions, selecting one full question from each module.
Reference Books:
- National Building Code.
- Charangith shah, Water supply and sanitary engineering, Galgotia publishers.
- Kamala & D L Kanth Rao, Environmental Engineering, Tata McGraw Hill publishing co. Ltd.
- Technical teachers Training Institute (Madras), Environmental Engineering, Tata McGraw Hill publishing Co. Ltd.
- M. David Egan, Concepts in Building Fire Safety.
- O. H. Koenigsberger, Manual of Tropical Housing and Building, Longman Group United Kingdom.
- V. K. Jain, Fire Safety in Building 2edition, New Age International Publishers.
- E. G. Butcher, Smoke control in Fire-safety Design.
- E. R. Ambrose, Heat pumps and Electric Heating, John and Wiley and Sons Inc, New York.
- Handbook for Building Engineers in Metric systems, NBC, New Delhi.
For the detail Syllabus of all other subjects of BE (CIVIL) 7th Sem, visit Civil Engineering 7th Sem Subjects.
For all (CBSE & Non-CBSC) BE/B.Tech results, visit VTU BE/B.Tech all semester results.