B.Tech. Agricultural Engineering · Semester 4

Building Construction and Cost Estimation

SWCE4.3 Soil & Water Conservation Engineering

Syllabus lecture plan

1. 01Building materials: description of important building materials
2. 02Different stones; formation of stones
3. 03Types of stones & Quarrying process
4. 04Stone products and uses
5. 05Bricks, types, preparation
6. 06Burning of bricks, properties and uses
7. 07Types of tiles
8. 08Classification of Lime and its properties with uses
9. 09Classification of Cement and its different uses with graes
10. 10Concrete: grades, preparation, mixing and laying of concrete
11. 11Use of sand with classification
12. 12Use of ferrous material, iron and steel products
13. 13Use of non-ferrous metals, glass, rubber, plastics, aluminum, copper, nickel
14. 14Timber and its uses, seasoning, defects, commercial form of timber
15. 15Miscellaneous building materials
16. 16Building construction: building components
17. 18Different types of floors
18. 19Plastering and pointing, damp proofing, Waterproofing washing, distempering 1 and painting
19. 20Steps for building construction
20. 21Needs of different agricultural buildings, types and uses
21. 22Types of roofs, slope and flat roof buildings
22. 23Estimating and costing: types of estimates, rough cost, detailed and 2 supplementary estimate
23. 24Preparation of cost estimate, cost analysis, schedule of rates, analysis of rates
24. 25Factors affecting building costs
25. 26Building codes, estate development
26. 27Cost economics: measurement and pricing
27. 28Economic methods for evaluation of buildings
28. 29Benefit cost calculation
29. 30Rate of return period (payback period)

Part of the B.Tech. Agricultural Engineering curriculum (ICAR recommendations). Upload or find notes, previous-year papers and quick-revision reels for each lecture on theciae.