DESIGN THE STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS OF A STUDENT’S HOSTEL

BY

ONG CHEE SEONG

ABSTRACT

The title of this project is it design the structural elements of a student’s hostel. The hostel is located in the city, where it is near to the collage. This is to enable the students to use the collage’s facilities regularly.

This is a block of three storey hostel. Each block of hostel consists of 36 rooms, 6 water closets and 6 staircases. Where each floor consists of 12 rooms, 2 water closets and 2 staircases.

The sizes of each rooms are 3.2 m x 3.5 m. The rooms are wide enough to fit some basic furniture (e.g. tables, chairs, cupboards and beds) for 2-3 students. The design information for the hostel is given below:

Exposure condition – internal mild

- external moderate

Fire resistance 1 hour

Dead loads – partitions and finishes 1.5 Kn/m2

- mass density of concrete 2.4 Kn/m3

Imposed loads – roof 1.5 Kn/m2

- typical floors 3 Kn/m2

Allowable soil bearing pressure 200 Kn/m2

The dead loads and imposed loads are taken from the recommendations of BS 6399, and the design is based on limit-state with references of British Standard.

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Diploma in Civil Engineering

1997

Number: VII