CVEN4050 Thesis A – T1, 2019

Please note the parts of this Assessment Task that you are
required to complete:

Civil Engineering students: Parts a, b, c, d, & g.

Environmental Engineering students: Parts b, c, d, e & g. (Your

Demonstrator will give you the Part ‘a’ dataset you are to use for
Parts b, c & d.)

Surveying students: Parts b, c, d, f & g. (Your Demonstrator will

give you the Part ‘a’ dataset you are to use for Parts b, c & d.)

Assessment Task 1b: Façade Design Report

In this assessment task you are required to complete a design submission. This second
assessment task is required in the compilation of your Thesis A submission. Your work
requirement is an individual submission and the weighing for this task is 25% as detailed in
the Course Outline.

The building description below is a new concept that the MOQ company is proposing to
introduce into cities throughout Australia incorporating a Podium level shopping centre above
which is a commercial office tower. The structure you are required to design is parts of the
façade elements of the square tower structure. You are required to design/ detail portions of
the façade elements of the tower building only. Key features of the structure are as follows:

Building alignment and a general description of your design focus:

The four building walls face exactly: North, South East & West, and the whole structure is
constructed as an in-situ cast reinforced concrete building. You are not required to design any
of the structural frame or flooring, only the tower’s façade elements detailed in the
‘Deliverables’ section.

Tower section:
36 metre × 36 metre with a column spacing of 6 m centre to centre
Floor to floor height 3600 mm
Depth of edge beam 580 mm
Maximum deflections:
Dead load: 5 mm
Live load: 6 mm
Long term: 18 mm
Height of sill 900 mm
Height of vision glass 1800 mm
Curtain walls on 4 sides
Aluminium mullions spaced at 1200 mm centre to centre
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Vision panels are double-glazed units and supported with a 4-sided structural silicone
Tower Roof is a reinforced concrete slab with a waterproofing membrane

Podium structure:
60 metre × 60 metre and is 4 storeys in height
Floor to floor height 3600 mm
Height of sill 900 mm
Height of vision glass 1800 mm
Curtain walls on 4 sides
Aluminium mullions spaced at 1200 mm centre to centre
Vision panels are double-glazed units and supported with a 4-sided structural silicone
Podium Roof is a reinforced concrete slab with a waterproofing membrane

1. Select the height of the tower building for your design according to you birth day in
the month:

Your birth day in Number of storeys of

the month the tower building:
1st to 4th 14
5th to 8th 16
9th to 12th 18
13th to 16th 20
17th to 20th 22
21st to 24th 24
25th to 28th 26
29th to 31st 28

Temperature:
2. Select the city that relates to your first name and use the assigned temperature data
below in you calculations:

Initial of your first Locality Minimum Maximum Ambient construction

name on Moodle Temperature ºC Temperature ºC Temperature ºC
A to D Adelaide 0 95 18
E to H Hobart -10 80 12
I to L Melbourne -5 90 15
M to P Newcastle 10 85 21
Q to T Perth 5 95 22
U-Z Sydney 5 90 20

Complete these Deliverables for your assigned data:

a) (20%) Determine the wind loads on the structure for the city you selected in the
Table in 2. (above) (complete your work as neat hand calculations) Note:
Environmental Engineering students and Surveying students will be issued with this
data set so as you can complete parts b, c & d. You need to contact your Demonstrator
via the Moodle for your Group to obtain this information.
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b) (20%) Clarify how you would adjust cladding fixings to accommodate the
following tolerances:
(i) construction tolerances;
(ii) the building movements present at the time of cladding erection; and,
(iii) cladding manufacturing tolerances.

c) (20%) Determine the anticipated movements that the horizontal and vertical
joints between the cladding elements will need to accommodate:
(i) long-term building movements; and,
(ii) thermal movements.

d) (20%) Design the following key tower curtain wall structural elements:
(i) mullions including fixings; and
(ii) glass and structural silicone.

e) (20%) In not more than two pages, provide an outline of how the thermal
efficiency of façade glass fitted to commercial buildings has been improved, and
what are the current trends available in glass façade work. (Include this as an
appendix.)

f) (20%) In not more than two pages, outline the issues that would impact on you if
you had the job of having to complete a laser scan task of glass-clad building and
how you might overcome any associated problems in completing the laser scan
work . (Include this as an appendix.)

g) (20%) Present your work with sections a), b), c) & d) in separate appendices and
present your Report to the following format:
(i) Your written Report is contain the key findings from your calculations a), b),
c) & d) for Civil Engineering students and elements e) and f) (substituting ) if
you are an Environmental Engineering student or Surveying student,
respectively – all of which are in appendices to your report.
(ii) The written Report itself, is limited to 4 typed pages;
(iii) The Report is to contain an Introduction, mainbody and Conclusion;
(iv) There is to be added a Cover Page and a (brief) Table of Contents including
Appendices reference and page numbers throughout; and,
(v) Include a Reference List to Harvard standard and refer to it throughout your
calculations and descriptions.

For your information, the Introduction and Conclusion should be about 10% each in the
length of your writing with the mainbody text being about 80% of the content. For this
submission your Introduction, mainbody writings and Conclusions are not to exceed 4 pages.
Additional other pages required (as listed above) are to be included but are not part of the
page count.

The smallest font you should be using is 12-point for the text-body writing. ‘Times New
Roman’ font is normal for this type of report writing, using 1.15 line spacing. Headings are to
be in 14 or 16 point. Use bolding or italics, appropriately. Use margin sizing of 25 mm. (N.B.
This outline has been written to this format, except for the margins.)
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Guidance:
In preparing your submission you might find it appropriate to include key information within
the main report as tables summarising Appendix information incorporated with your written
outline. In parts a, b, c and d (which are included as appendices in this submission) it is
acceptable for you to include hand calculations for your work. Ensure that your submission is
legible for marking, and are well set out and that you include any assumptions that you have
made in developing your answers.

Your submission requirements:

Your Assessment Task 1b submission is to be uploaded onto the Moodle submission

portal before the due time being, 17:00h on Thursday 28th March, 2019. The Course
Outline states that this submission time is an absolute deadline. Ensure that you plan
your work to meet this deadline.

N.B. Advice for you is avoid trying to upload your work in the last minutes before the due
deadline. Plan your submissions better than this to avoid the technology associated failures
that are all too often prevalent and unannounced! This particularly applies to you if you are
using mobile technologies! Remember, you are submitting to an absolute deadline – no
excuses!

Marking Criteria:
Your submission grading percentages have already been listed against the headings outlined
in the ‘Deliverables’ section, these being the Marking Criteria.