Preface

The report has been made under the rules and

regulations of CSVTU. The report basically
consists of the location and facilities of city prime,
different tests performed at construction site,
methodology of work, materials and equipments
used and live problems identified at the
construction site. The report has been made under
guidance of Er. V.K. Pandey. We sincerely thank
him for giving his precious time and guidance. We
are acknowledged to have our training work at
Rishabh city prime.
 Introduction
The Rishabh City Prime is a new concept of
residential apartments consists of 11 towers each
having 20– 2&3 BHK flats. Special care has been
taken in planning to place all flats as corner flats to
ensure sufficient light and ventilation. The 16
towers are assigned as A, B, C, D, E, H, I, J, K, L,
M blocks. Each block is of G+ 5 types. The
Rishabh Prime city is shown in a layout below:-
The super buildup area of each flat is 974 sq. ft.
The plan of one floor is shown below:-
Amenities at rishabh prime
I) Badminton court
II) Gymnasium with modern equipment
III) Club house for indoor games
IV) Furnished AC guest rooms
V) Garden with beautiful landscaping
VI) Concrete road & covered drain
VII) Adequate street lights with power backup

Project team
Y.L. Chandak – Architect
R.K. Sarda – Structural Engineer
Lalit Jain – Financial Advisor
Rajkumar Shukla – Legal Advisor
V.K. Pandey, Shahid Khan – Project Engineer
 Rishabh builder projects
Other than Rishabh city prime, Rishabh Builders
are constructing Rishabh Green City which
contains high, medium and lower range of semi
detached duplex and single flats such as Ruby,
Topaz, and Pearl which are respectively shown in
the plan below:-

RUBY
TOPAZ

PEARL
 Building materials
Cement: The cement used for construction is the
Birla AA1 cement. The cement is Portland
pozzolana cement fly ash based as per
IS1489:1976. The use of pozzolana (fly ash) in
cement reduces segregation & bleeding. The
addition of pozzolana to the cement is nearly about
30%.Some of the test result for cement is:
Initial setting time of the cement - 159 min
Final setting tine of the cement - 294 min
Finess of cement is nearly 93% passing.
Specific gravity of cement – 3.14
Compressive strength of cement –
3 days strength – 260 kg/sq.cm
7 days strength – 340 kg/sq.cm

Aggregates: The aggregates are divided as coarse

aggregates (grit) & fine aggregates (sand). The
aggregates are coming from SLC, RLC aggregate
quarries.
Coarse aggregates: Aggregates retained on 4.75
mm IS sieves are the coarse aggregates. The
nominal sizes of coarse aggregates for concrete
mix design are 20mm.The coarse aggregates. The
aggregates used are angular in shape which
provides good bonding strength. The grit used is
sandstones.

20mm

Fine aggregates: The aggregate passing through a

4.75 mm IS sieves are the fine aggregates (sand).
The sand used is coarse sand for making the
concrete and other is the plaster sand. The sand
should confirm to the latest IS: 383.
Steel: The steel used as the reinforcement o
concrete are in the form of rods. These rods are of
Thermo Mechanically Treated (TMT) type. The
TMT rods using is GOEL TMT, HARIOM TMT.
The TMT using is Fe 500 that is its yield strength
is 500MPa conforming to IS: 1786. The available
TMT at the site are of diameter 6mm, 8mm,
10mm, 12mm, 16mm, 20mm and 25mm .The
standard unit weights for TMT are:
Diameter Unit weight
6mm 0.221kg/m3
8mm 0.395kg/m3
10mm 0.625kg/m3
12mm 0.888kg/m3
16mm 1.58kg/m3
20mm 2.47kg/m3
25mm 3.85kg/m3

The 6mm bars are used as the stirrups.

Concrete: - the concrete in use is of M25 grade for

the superstructure and foundation. For PCC, M15
grade concrete is used.
Bricks: - The bricks that are in use are of fly ash
bricks and traditional red bricks. The fly ash bricks
are coming from different state government
approved fly ash brick industries. The sizes of
these bricks are 9”x 4.5”x 3” . The purpose of
using these bricks is only to utilize the dispose off
fly ash from industries. The water absorption of
these bricks is higher than that of traditional
bricks.
The Red bricks are coming from
SLC, RLC and HB brick manufacturing industries.
 Tests
The two tests which are performed at the site are
concrete cube test for determining the strength of
concrete and slump test for determining the degree
of workability.
Concrete cube test:

The concrete cube test is done to check the

crushing strength of different grades of the
concrete. The cubes are of the sizes 15cm x 15cm
x 15cm. For the determination of the crushing
strength it is required to have compression testing
machine. For proper workability the w/c ratio
varies from 0.4-0.6. If it is decreased to less than
0.4 there is result of honey- combed structure.
Slump test: The slump test is done to measure the
workability of concrete. For the slump test a
conical mould is used having bottom diameter of
200mm, top diameter of 100mm & height of
300mm. The slump observed at the site should be
in between 80mm to 110mm.

Slump checking for RCC for footing

Design of M25 concrete: - One of the design

parameters of M25 grade is as follows:-
Characteristic compre. Strength= 25N/sq.mm.
Target 28days compr. Strength= 32.1N/sq.mm
Mean 7days compressive strength= 22.2N/sq.mm

Design prop. Water cement sand coarse agg

Prop. By wt. 0 .5 1.0 1.7 3.70

Material/cu.m 167lts. 335 569.5 1239.5

in kg
Material/bag 25lts 50 110.7 185
of cement in kg

Construction details
Excavation :- The excavation for a footing size of
8’x 7’ is done with centre line marking of column
of 6” is done from sides of footing in order to have
the centre line markings not being removed due to
excavation.
Foundations: - There are three types of
foundations in use at site are:-
I) Open foundations
II) Column foundations
III) Pile foundations
In open foundation, brick work is used. This type
of foundation is used in the medium range of semi
detached single floored flat.
Column foundations are in common use
for high range and multistoried buildings. The
sloped footings are used. For e.g.:- a column of
size 9”x 24” a footing of size of 7’x 8’ is used.
The pile foundations are used in case
of a soil having lower SBC e.g. black cotton soil.
They are also the low range of foundations. The
site calculations for the load bearing capacity of a
pile are as follows: -
8” dia. – 8-10T
10” dia. – 15T
12” dia. – 18T
15” dia. – 22.5T
The 12” dia. pile is more preferred.

Walls: - The wall thickness of 9” is used and with

the relevant long wall and short wall. The column
of rectangular shape of size 24”x 9” with length in
long wall and width in short wall. The purpose is
only to have architectural beauty.

Equipments used
Vibrators: - for compacting the concrete after its
placement, concrete vibrators are used. At the site,
needle vibrators are used which is powered by
diesel engine with 10000 to 15000 vibrations per
minute at amplitude between 0.8 to 1.6 mm.The
vibrators can be lifted and can be placed near the
work manually.
Drum mixers: - the mixer in use at the site is
loader fed tilting drum 10/7 concrete mixer. These
are tilting type of mixers. “10/7” means mixer
takes 10cuft of unmixed material and gives 7cuft
of mixed concrete in each batch.

Tower hoist: - wide variety of tower hoist is

manufactured in sync with international quality
standards. For safety purpose, we offer tower hoist
with automatic brakes. Our tower hoist performs
flawlessly and possess the load capacity of 250
liters. These tower hoists are offered by us at
industry leading prices and as per the need of the
clients.

MODEL NO.: G.T.H. - 6 BATCH

CAPACITY: 10/7 CFT (250 Ltrs.)
SPECIFICATIONS: 50 FT/110 FT/200 FT
HEIGHT, WITH TILTING BUCKET
PNEUMATIC WHEEL TYPE WINCH N.B.,
PIPE SCAFFOLD CHARGES ARE EXTRA.
POWER UNIT:
(1) 10 H.P. / 15 H.P. AIR COOLED DIESEL
ENGINE OR
(2) 10 H.P. ELECTRIC MOTOR.
Live problems identified at
site
The main problems are the poor quality control,
lack of engineer’s supervision, use of unskilled
labors and use of fully hydrated cement for making
concrete which are shown in the following
images:-

HYDRATED CEMENT

POOR QUALITY FINISHING

The problems at the site can be rectified by
appointing more engineers, skilled supervisors and
giving proper training and instructions to the
labors.

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