Basic civil engineering /
Satheesh Gopi
- India Pearson 2010
- 328 p.
Basic Civil Engineering is designed to enrich thepreliminary conceptual knowledge about civil engineering to thestudents of non-civil branches of engineering. The coverageincludes materials for construction, building construction, basicsurveying and other major topics like environmental engineering, geo-technical engineering, transport traffic andamp; urbanengineering, irrigation andamp; water supply engineering and CAD.
Quality and standard of Materials along with cost effectiveness. Modern field procedures for surveying such as Total Station, GPS and digital levels Building services like air conditioning, fire protection systems, lifts, escalators etc. and also repair and maintenance of structures. A chapter on CAD highlighting its importance in civil engineering.