Building Construction Site Visit

Building Construction Site Visit (Dated 21.10.2019) was organized for class 1-B to St. Gregorius School, Sector – 11, Dwarka, New Delhi.

It has often been desired by Higher Authorities of the institute that in addition to theoretical training, through lectures/studio work etc., practical training should also be imparted to students of respective classes especially in respect of Building Construction methods and latest technologies being adopted in Real Estate Sector to broaden their sphere of knowledge about construction.

In compliance to above, the undersigned has voluntarily taken up a lead role in organizing various site visits of the upcoming Real Estate Projects, for various classes of the institute. Undersigned is also of the view that the best way to learn Building Construction subject, is to visit the relevant site to see and document the structural system and various construction details being implemented at site. It is also felt that a rich knowledge about latest ongoing building construction techniques automatically leads to development and enhancement of very good skills in Building Designing. Thus, building construction and architectural designing go hand in hand, together.

With the above background, a site visit was organized for class 1-B students as per the following description:

1.     Objective: The prime objective was to study and sensitize students of 1^st year regarding brickwork bonds i.e., English Bond, Header Bond, Arch Construction and exposed brick cladding construction work being undertaken in the school as per the curriculum/syllabus for the first semester.

2.     Identification of the Project Site/Permission from Competent Authority:

It was noticed that St. Gregorios School at Dwarka is in the process of vertical future expansion and very good exposed brick cladding work and arch formation work is being done. So, it was considered to be the most ideal and nearby site for the students to see and to learn exposed brick work, brick bonds and arch construction techniques.

Accordingly, vide our letter dated 15.10.2019 (Annexure – 1) the competent authority of the school Chairman as well as Principal were requested to accord the necessary approval for conducting the site visit.

3.     After seeking verbal approval for site visit from the Principal of the School, an in house Notice dated 21.10.2019 (Annexure – 2) was issued after due approval from the concerned faculties and competent authority i.e., Batch Coordinator, BCM Coordinator and Director Sir. Accordingly, site visit was held on 21.10.2019 in forenoon. All the students of the class along

with Subject Faculty i.e., undersigned and Ar. Shubhangi Saxena visited the site. Site visit report is attached herewith (Annexure – 3).

4.     As desired separate photo gallery (Annexure – 4) is also attached.

Positive Outcome of the site visit: During the visit, the students could observe and understand construction of English Bond in external 230 mm filler wall around the arches. They also gathered knowledge about frame construction comprising of column and beams. They could observe Header Bond with bricks placed radially used for construction of semi- circular part of the staircase. They could see and understand how arches (semi-circular and circular) are constructed by using a mold. They could understand how brick cladding is done using machine made bricks cut to size. They felt quite excited to see brick/stone cutting machine and sand sieving machine and made video clipping demonstrating its operation. They noticed different size of Reinforcement Bars being used at site along with fabrication of Mild Steel Window frames with semicircular head. They also noticed other finishes like exposed grit work (locally called Dhullai Dana) applied on the staircase surface and saw materials like red /buff colour sand stone slabs being used for cladding purpose. They observed that Watchmen Cabin was covered with pyramidal roof over which corrugated terracotta tiles were fixed. At entrance, the school name was beautifully engraved on orange color granite slab.