The objective of the Industrial Visit is to help students gain
first hand information regarding functioning of the civil engineering Industry.
Prerequisites
Practical / Term work
The students should visit at least six project sites in all during Semester VII. The sites should be selected in such a way that during various visits, they should be able to observe/study. Most of the activities related to building construction like, concreting of footings and columns, bar bending, concreting of slab, flooring, plastering, plumbing, painting, cladding, False ceiling air conditioning. And at least four of the following : i. structural steel fabrication and erection ii. Ground improvement methods (Grouting / geosynthetics/reinforcement) iii. Tunneling by conventional method or by TBM iv. Cassion foundations and piling. v. Asphalt laying and concreting of roads. vi. Ready mix concrete plant and ready mix asphalt plant. vii. Earth work for dam or transport project. viii. Fabrication and accretion of pre-cast concrete elements. ix. Mass concreting (roller compacted concrete, hot weather concrete cold weather concrete / under water concrete) x. Mechanized canal construction (excavation, leveling and lining) xi. Repairs, rehabilitation works xii. Pre-stressing The students are expected to observe method of work, operation involved, tools used quality checks, site layouts, productivity of workmen, gang size, equipment used etc. The student shall prepare and submit detail report for every site visited during semester VII at the time of Oral examination to be conducted at the end of semester VII the report should clearly indicate observations made during such visits supplemented with ample sketches / drawings.