Description
This Course is offered to 7th semester General Major
The course presents – in a broader sense - construction methods for infrastructure and mega projects involving heavy civil engineering tasks and activities. Typical large scale projects span a wide range of applications and disciplines in civil engineering: transportation, bridges, tunnels, high rise buildings, sewage and drinking water networks, water treatment plants, airports, sea ports, marine structures, earth filled dams and levee systems, hydraulic structures, heavy industrial and power plants, and other mega projects. The pertaining construction methods will be demonstrated along with the structural system and equipment technology. Presentations on selected real-life projects will demonstrate the application of such technologies. Sound implementation of the presented material heavily relies on pre-assessment of the project requirements that should be supplemented with adequate choice of construction method and equipment as well as identifying the required measures during the temporary phases of construction. This approach is prudent for technology-driven heavy civil engineering. Special foundations play an instrumental role in civil engineering applications – particularly mega projects. They typically mandate continuous advancements in construction technologies and innovative development in the associated construction equipment and supplementary machinery. A quick overview on fundamentals of shallow and deep foundations will be presented. Emphasis will be placed on selection of adequate foundation systems for the mega projects. The appropriate construction methods and key equipment will be presented. The relationship between the geological/sub surface conditions and nature of project, on one hand, and the appropriate construction method and equipment, on the other hand, is discussed.