EIGHTH SEMESTER

CODE SUBJECT HRS/WEEK EVALUATION Credits

Assign Mid- End- Total
ment Sem Sem
TH-CECE801 Construction Technology 4 10 20 70 100 7
Management
&Specifications
TH-CECE802 Design of Hydraulic 4 10 20 70 100 7
Structures/ Dam Design

TH-CECE803 Ground Improvement 4 10 20 70 100 7

Techniques

Ground Improvement Lab

PR-CECE804 Major Project 2 200 200 9

Total 18 600 30

Construction Technology Management & Specifications

Unit-1: Introduction: Objectives and functions of project management, Finance and cost accounting, Quality control, Methods of
motivation and incentives.

Unit-2: Network Techniques: Introduction to CPM/PERT methods and their use in construction planning, preparation of
construction schedules for jobs, materials, equipments, labour and funds and project monitoring.

Unit-3: Construction Equipment: Different types of construction equipment viz., earth moving equipment, dewatering and
pumping equipment, grouting equipment, pile driving equipment and other construction equipment such as conveyors,
cranes, concrete mixers, vibrators, road construction machinery, rollers, compactors etc. Factors affecting the selection of
construction equipment.

Unit-4: Equipment Management: Productivity, operational cost, owing and hiring cost and the work motion study

Unit-5: Contract Management: Legal aspects of contraction, laws related to contracts, land acquisition, labour safety and welfare.
Different types of contracts, their relative advantages and disadvantages. Elements of tender operation, pre-qualifications of
contracts, Evaluation of tenders, Contract negotiation and award of works, settlement of disputes, arbitration and
commissioning of the project.

Design of Hydraulic Structures/ Dam Design

Project planning, site investigations, choice of type of dams; cost-benefit studies. Non-overflow dams: gravity, arch and buttress type,
rock-fill and earthen dams, their design, stress analysis, stress concentration around openings. Different types of spillways and energy
dissipaters, their design; preparation and protection of foundation for dams; model analysis of hydraulic structures; instrumentation in
dams; temperature control in concrete dams.

Ground Improvement Techniques

Ground improvement: principles of ground improvement; mechanical modification; properties of compacted soil, compaction control
tests, hydraulic modification; dewatering systems, filtration, drainage and seepage control with geosynthetics, preloading and vertical
drains, electro kinetic dewatering, chemical modification; modification by admixtures, stabilization using industrial wastes, grouting,
modification by inclusion and confinement; soil reinforcement, flexible geosynthetic sheet reinforcement, anchorage; reinforcement
techniques, bearing capacity improvement, slope stability, erosion control, retaining walls and pavements. Soil stabilization: shallow
stabilization with additives: lime, flyash, cement and other chemicals and bitumen; deep stabilization; sand column, stone column,
sand drains, prefabricated drains, electro-osmosis, lime column; soil-lime column; grouting: permeation, compaction and jet; vibro-
floatation, dynamic compaction, thermal, freezing; dewatering systems