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APJ ABDUL KALAM TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
FIRST/SECOND SEMESTER B.TECH DEGREE EXAMINATION, JULY 2016
Course Code: CE100
Course Name: BASICS OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
Max. Marks: 100 Duration: 3 Hours
PART A
Answer ALL questions. Each question carries 3 marks

List out any six disciplines of civil engineering.
What are the factors affecting site selection of a building?
What is direct ranging?
Illustrate any 6 properties of good bricks.
What do you mean by bearing capacity of soil?
What are the various flooring materials available?
Differentiate between header bond and stretcher bond.
Discuss the principles of comfort air conditioning
Explain about towers and its uses?

. What do you mean by intelligent building?

PARTB
Answer any 8 questions (6 x 8 = 48 Marks)

Describe with sketches the components of a residential building.

How can you classify the buildings based on occupancy according to National Building Code?
Explain bricfly.

Describe about the site plan of buildings.

Explain setting out of a building.

What are the factors affecting orientation of a building?

What are the main principles of surveying?

The following consecutive readings were taken with a dumpy level: 0.555, 0.725, 1.235, 0.73,
0.825, 1.560, 0.285, 0.945, 0.785, 2.465. The instrument was shifted after the third and seventh
reading. The first reading was taken on a benchmark whose R.L-. is 100.00 metres. Rule out the