Syllabus - Cost Effective & ECO-Friendly Structures (CE 603(D))

Civil Engineering

Cost Effective & ECO-Friendly Structures (CE 603(D))

VI-Semester

Unit -I

Concepts of energy efficient & environment friendly materials and techniques

Cost effective materials :- Soil, Fly ash, Ferrocement, Lime, Fibres, Stone Dust, Red mud, Gypsum, Alternate Wood, Polymer. Energy Efficient & Environment friendly building material products:- Walls - Stabilised and sun dried, soil blocks & bricks, Solid & Hollow concrete blocks, stone masonry blocks, Ferrocement partitions. Roofs - Precast R.C. Plank & Joists roof, Precast channel roof, Precast L-panel roof, Precast Funicular shells, Ferrocement shells, Filler Slab, Seasal Fibre roof, Improved country tiles, Thatch roof, M.C.R. tile.

Unit -II

Cost effective construction techniques and equipments

(a) Techniques :- Rat trap bond construction, Energy Efficient roofings, Ferrocement technique, Mud Technology. (b) Equipments :- Brick moulding machine, Stablilised soil block making machine and plants for the manufacturing of concrete blocks, M.C.R. tile making machine, Ferrocement wall panel & Roofing channel making machine, R.C.C. Chaukhat making m/c.

Unit -III

Cost effective sanitation

(a) Waste water disposal system (b) Cost effective sanitation for rural and urban areas Ferrocement Drains

Unit -IV

Low Cost Road Construction

Cost effective road materials, stabilization, construction techniques tests, equipment used for construction, drainage, maintenance.

UNIT-V

Cost analysis and comparison

All experimental materials All experimental techniques (a) Green Building rating systems

Practicals

Reference Books

  • Alternative Building Materials and Technologies – K S Jagadeesh, B V Venkatta Rama Reddy & K S NanjundaRao – New Age International Publishers

  • Integrated Life Cycle Design of Structures – AskoSarja –CRC Press

  • Non-conventional Energy Resources –D S Chauhan and S K Sreevasthava – New Age International Publishers

  • Buildings How to Reduce Cost – Laurie Backer - Cost Ford

  • Lynne Elizabeth, Cassandra Adams Alternative Construction : Contemporary Natural BuildingMethods ”, Softcover, Wiley & Sons Australia, Limited, John,2005

  • Givoni, “Man, Climate, Architecture, Van Nostrand, New York, 1976.

  • Charles J. Kibert, Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Delivery,John Wiley & Sons,2005.

  • Eugene Eccli- Low Cost, Energy efficient shelter for owner & builder, Rodale Press, 1976