Format No. QSP/7.1/01.

F01 (B)
Issue No.04 Rev. No 4 Dated: June 7, 2014

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UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM & ENERGY STUDIES

College of Engineering Studies
Dehradun
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COURSE PLAN
Programme

: B. Tech. Civil Engineering

Course

: Building Design & Drawing

Subject Code

: IFEG 241

No. of credits

:4

Semester

: IV

Session

: 2014-2015

Batch

: 2013-2017

Prepared by

: Mr. Ankur Chowdhary

Email

: achowdhary@ddn.upes.ac.in

Approved By
_______________________
_______________________
HOD

Dean

UPES Campus

Tel : +91-135-2770137

Energy Acres

Fax : +91 135- 27760904

P.O. Bidholi, Via Prem Nagar

Website : www.upes.ac.in

COURSE PLAN
Subject:
Building Design & Drawing
Duration: Aug 2015 June 2015

Course:
Subject code:

B. Tech. Civil Engineering

IFEG 241
One Session: 60

Minutes
A. OBJECTIVES:
(a) To create the awareness about relevance of drawing & design of buildings in respect to civil
engineering & how to control the development through Building Byelaws.
(b) To give students an idea about factors affecting the design & planning of any building.
(c) To create awareness about various type buildings as per the function/usage, their drawings
and its correlation to the various type of structure systems.

B. COURSE OUTLINE
UNIT
1
2
3
4

CONTENTS
Introduction to various Drawings & Building Byelaws
Ventilation, Thermal Insulation, Acoustics & Lighting of
Buildings & Building Services
Design & Planning for Residential Buildings & Working
Drawing
Design & Planning of Public Buildings & Perspectives

C. PEDAGOGY

Lecture
Presentations (Individual/Group)
Class Test
Quiz
Assignments

D. COURSE COMPLETION PLAN

Syllabus Coverage 100%
50% syllabus will be covered before mid-term examination
50% syllabus will be covered after mid-term examination2
Assignments - 4

2 Assignments before mid-term examination

2 Assignments before end-term examination
Class Tests 2
1 class tests will be taken before mid-term examination
1 class tests will be taken after mid-term examination
E. EVALUATION & GRADING
Description

Weight age

Schedule

1.

Internal Examination

30%

Detailed Below

2.

Mid-term Exam

20%

Academic Calendar

3.

End-term Exam

50%

Academic Calendar

Internal Assessment: Marks 100 (It is based on the individual/group assignment,

online quizzes/test and class room attendance)- Faculty are advise to declare detailed
break-up or scheme for internal assessment.
Mid- Sem Examination: 20% Weightage
Mid- Sem examination shall be of two hour duration and shall be a combination of
short theory questions and numerical problems.
End -Sem Examination: 50% Weightage
End-Sem examination shall be of three hours duration. The examination paper shall
have theory questions, short, long and application oriented problems.

F. DETAILED SESSION PLAN

SESSION

TOPIC

READINGS

PEDAGOGY

PICTORIAL
REPRESENTATIONS

UNIT I
Lect 1.

12

Introduction
to
building
definition & types of building as
per occupancy
Lect 2. Principles of planning of building
Lect 3. Plan Sanctioning, Tracing &
ammonia print
Lect 4. Necessity of Building bye laws,
plot size, width of road, open
spaces, floor area ratio,
Lect 5. Building line & control line,
height regulation
Lect 6. Room size, types of area,
calculation: built-up area, floor
area
Lect 7. Rules for ventilation, lighting,
Lect 8. Rules for drainage, sanitation &
parking of vehicles
Lect 9. Necessity
of
Ventilation,
Functional
Requirements,
systems of ventilation and their
choice movement of wind
through building, wind effect,
stack effect
Lect 10. Classification of Air conditioning,
comfort conditions, principles
and system of comfort, object
and necessity of A.C.
Lect 11. Fire protection: Fire load, fire
safety grading of occupancy by
fire load considerations in fire
protections (continued)
Lect 12. Fire resistant construction of
wall, columns roof, floor, wall
openings, fire escape elements
UNIT II

12
Lect 13. Climate, thermal comfort, heat
exchange of buildings, general

NPTEL Lectures
Text book
1, 2, 3, 4,
8, 11

Power point
presentation/
Lecture

Assignment
I

Lect 14.

Lect 15.

Lect 16.

Lect 17.

Lect 18.

Lect 19.
Lect 20.

Lect 21.
Lect 22.
Lect 23.

Lect 24.

principles and means of thermal

insulation,
Structural
control,
heat
insulation of exposed walls, roof
openings, use of sun breakers,
projections and insulating glass
Noise: effect of noise, types
control and noise insulation of
structures, air borne and
structural
borne
noise,
transmission
of
noise,
acceptable noise level
Acoustics:
reverberation,
Sabines formula, acoustical
defects,
Conditions of good acoustics,
acoustics for various types of
building.
Natural and artificial, design of
windows for clear daylight, sky
daylight factor, necessity of
artificial light, maximum light
required at working table
Building services: importance of
building services,
Constructional requirement for
different
building
serviceelectrical , tele-communication
and entertainment services,
Plumbing services-layout of
water supply and
Drainage system, one pipe and
two pipe system,
Storage disposal arrangement,
septic tank, garbage disposal
arrangement,
Solar water heater.

NPTEL Lectures

Text book
1, 2, 3, 8, 9,
10

Power point
presentation/
Lecture

Assignment
II
&
Test
II

UNIT III

12

Lect 25. Planning for residential building

Text book
Power point
Bearing/
frame
structure1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
presentation/
bungalows, row houses and
6, 7`
Lecture/CAD
apartments
Lect 26. Types of drawings
Lect 27. Sketch design
Lect 28. Presentation drawings

NPTEL Lectures
Assignment
III

Lect 29. Approval Drawing

Lect 30. Preparation of
Approval
Drawing
Lect 31. Working drawings- importance
& use of working drawings
Lect 32. Preparation of Ground Floor
working , First Floor
Lect 33. Preparation of Section
Lect 34. Preparation of Elevation
Lect 35. External wall section detail
Lect 36. Sections & Elevation
UNIT IV

12

Lect 37. Planning of public buildings

(frame
structure)-functional
requirement of public building.
Lect 38. Primary of secondary school
building
Lect 39. Hostel Building
Lect 40. Lodge Building,
Lect 41. Hotel Building
Lect 42. Primary Health Center
Lect 43. Factory Building
Lect 44. Bus stand
Lect 45. Library Building
Lect 46. Commercial Complex, Bank
Building,
Lect 47. Post office building, Marriage
Hall
Lect 48. Perspective Drawing: One point
& two point perspective
drawings

NPTEL Lectures
Assignment
Text book
1, 2, 3 & 11

Power point
presentation/
Lecture/CAD

F. SUGGESTED READINGS:
F : 1 TEXT BOOKS:
1. Times saver standards for various Building Types - Joseph De Chiara
2. National Building Code - 2005
3. Neufert Architects Data - Ernst Neufert

4. Engineering Drawing - N. D. Bhatt

5. Building Construction - Sushil Kumar

IV
&
Test 2

6. Building Construction - B. C. Punmia

7. Building Constrction - W. B. Mckay
8. Manual of tropical housing & building: Climatic Design - O.H. Koenigsberger
9. Climate Responsive Design: A handbook for energy efficient buildings -Arvind Krishnan
10. Architectural Acoustics- Bruel & Kjaer
11. Unified Building Byelaws 2013 & Development Control Regulation of Master Plan of
Delhi-2021
F : 2 REFERENCE BOOKS/ MATERIAL
12. A+D: Architecture + Design Magazine
13. Buildotech Magazine-Url: http://buildotechindia.com

14. Indian Architect & Builders Magazine-Url: http://issuu.com/iab_archives/docs

15. Architectural Acoustics: Christopher Jaffe, Ph. D., Hon AiA & Russel A. Cooper
16. Read construction drawings like a pro with Andrew Morrison-Video-1,2,3: Url:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56L_7QJZyRQ

17. Natural

Ventilation

&

Human

Comfort:

Url:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=891gaoqK6MQ
18. Ventilation

Rates

and

Energy

Efficiency

of

Various

Window

Types:

Url:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCrZEJATeKQ

GUIDELINES

Cell Phones and other Electronic Communication Devices: Cell phones and other
electronic communication devices (such as Blackberries/Laptops) are not permitted in
classes during Tests or the Mid/Final Examination. Such devices MUST be turned off in
the class room.
E-Mail and LMS: Each student in the class should have an e-mail id and a pass word to
access the LMS system regularly. Regularly, important information Date of conducting
class tests, guest lectures, via LMS. The best way to arrange meetings with us or ask
specific questions is by email and prior appointment. All the assignments preferably
should be uploaded on LMS. Various research papers/reference material will be
mailed/uploaded on LMS time to time.

Attendance: Students are required to have minimum attendance of 75% in each subject.
Students with less than said percentage shall NOT be allowed to appear in the end
semester examination.
Passing criterion: Student has to secure minimum 30%/40% marks of the highest marks
in the class scored by a student in that subject (in that class/group class) individually in
both the End-Semester examination and Total Marks in order to pass in that paper.

Passing Criterion for B. Tech: minimum 30% of the highest marks in the class

Passing Criterion for M. Tech: minimum 40% of the highest marks in the class