Civil engineering course essentials
For students of Civil Engineering, the following information, divided into the module subjects you are likely to study as part of the course, is available on our site.
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[edit] Building environmental science
[edit] Materials
[edit] Building services technology
- Air conditioning.
- Air infiltration.
- Airtightness of energy efficient buildings
- BIM and facilities management
- Building Automation and Control System BACS
- Building performance evaluation BPE
- Building services
- Building services engineer
- Building services maintenance contractors’ role in reducing carbon emissions
- Code of practice for grid connected solar photovoltaic systems
- Commissioning building systems
- Commissioning v testing
- Computational fluid dynamics.
- Condensation in buildings
- Cross ventilation.
- DC electricity networks
- Developing system intelligence for optimising building electricity networks
- Dew point
- Displacement ventilation.
- Domestic heat pumps and the electricity supply system
- Dry lining
- Electricity supply
- Gas Safe
- Ground source heat pumps
- Humidity
- HVAC.
- Interstitial condensation
- Lifts for buildings
- Lifts for office buildings
- Mechanical ventilation of buildings
- Natural ventilation.
- Passive building design.
- Rampspre
- Stack effect.
- The Future of Electricity in Domestic Buildings
- The use of batteries to store electricity for buildings
- Thermal insulation for buildings
- Types of domestic boiler
- Underfloor air distribution.
- Ventilation
- Whole building ventilation.
[edit] Principles of design and construction
[edit] Surveying
[edit] Structural design
- Adaptive structures
- Biaxial bending
- Braced frame
- Bridge construction
- Cantilever
- Concept architectural design
- Concept design
- Concept structural design of buildings
- Concrete-steel composite structures
- Detailed design
- Domestic roofs
- Elements of structure in buildings
- Feasibility studies
- Failure of cast iron beams
- Fitness for purpose
- Folded plate construction
- Groundworks
- Long span roof
- Major cast metal components
- Metal fabrication
- Portal frame
- Structural engineer
- Structural failures
- Structural steelwork
- Structural systems for offices
- Structural vibration
- Structure definition
- Structures at the end of their design life
- Substructure
- Superstructure
- Swimming pool construction
- The design of temporary structures and wind adjacent to tall buildings
- The development of structural membranes
- Tube structural system
- Types of column
- Types of structural load
[edit] Construction and commercial management
[edit] Civil engineering technology
- Bridge construction
- Caisson
- Cofferdam
- Construction plant
- Continuous flight auger piles
- Coastal defences
- Curtain wall systems
- Demolition
- Dredging
- Driven piles
- Enabling works for construction
- Excavation
- Explosives
- External works
- Falsework
- First fix
- Fit out of buildings
- Footings in foundations
- Formwork
- Geothermal pile foundations
- Ground anchor
- Ground conditions
- Ground heave
- Groundworks on construction projects
- Grouting in civil engineering
- Highway drainage
- Hydraulic Assisted Bridges
- Insitu testing of soils
- Micropiles
- Mobilisation
- Opening up works for inspection and testing
- Pile foundations
- Reservoir construction.
- Retaining walls
- Road construction
- Road joints
- Settlement
- Sewer construction
- Subsidence of buildings
- Temporary works for construction
- Trench support
- Trombe wall
- Tunnelling
- Vibro-compaction for ground improvement
- Vibro-replacement
- Water transfers and interconnections
- Wall plate
[edit] Geotechnical engineering
[edit] Civil engineering contracts
- Attestation in construction
- Back to back provisions in construction contacts
- Base date in construction contracts
- Bonds in construction contracts
- Causation in construction contracts
- Certificate of making good defects
- Certificate of non completion
- Chain of custody in design and construction
- Collateral warranties for building design and construction
- Compensation event
- Concurrent delay
- Confirmation of verbal instruction
- Consequential loss
- Contract administrator for construction contracts
- Contract award
- Contract claims in construction
- Contract data
- Contract documents for construction
- Contract execution
- Contract register
- Contract sum
- Contract sum analysis
- Contract terms for construction contracts
- Contribution and apportionment
- Copyright of building design
- Cost reimbursable contract
- Counterclaim in construction
- Damages in construction contracts
- Default payment notice for construction
- Defective Premises Act
- Defects certificate
- Defects correction period
- Defects in construction
- Deferment of possession
- Direct loss in construction contracts
- Disallowed cost
- Due diligence when selecting contractors or subcontractors
- Ejusdem generis
- End of contract report
- Engineering Procurement and Construction Management Contract
- Essentials of a contract
- Estoppel contracts
- Ex gratis payment
- Excepted risk
- Express and implied terms in construction contracts
- Fair payment practices for construction
- Global claim
- Good faith in construction contracts
- Guarantees
- ICE Conditions of Contract
- Indemnity clauses in design and construction contracts
- Intellectual property
- Intermediate building contract
- JCT
- Joint and several liability in building design and construction contracts
- Letter of intent
- Lump sum contract
- Measure of damages for construction contracts
- Measured term contract
- Measurement contract
- Mitigation of loss
- Modifying clauses in standard forms of construction contract
- Named specialist work
- Negotiated contract
- Non-disclosure agreement
- Occupation and defects liability period
- Penultimate certificate for construction contracts
- Period for reply
- Practical considerations of collateral warranties
- Preamble in construction contracts
- Prime contract
- Prime cost contract
- Recitals in construction contracts
- Relationship between contractual documents for BIM
- Relevant events v relevant matters
- Repudiatory breach in construction contracts
- Rescission
- Retention bond
- Rights of third parties
- Set off in construction contracts
- Specified perils in construction contracts
- Standard form of contract
- Step-in rights in construction contracts
- Suspension of performance in construction contracts
- Target contract
- Termination in construction contracts
- Time and cost management contract TCM15
- Traditional contract for construction
- Translation of building contracts
- Variations in construction contracts
- Vicarious liability
- Withholding notice in construction contracts
- Z clauses
[edit] Health and safety
- Air quality
- Asbestos in construction
- Building regulations
- Construction dust
- Construction site inspection
- Contaminated land for construction
- Control of noise at work regulations 2005
- Corporate wellness programmes
- COSHH
- Crane regulations
- Debris netting
- Deleterious materials in construction
- Environmental health
- Fire
- Guarding
- Hazardous substances
- Health and safety consultant
- Health and Safety Executive HSE
- Health and safety file
- Health and safety for building design and construction
- Health and safety inspector
- Health and safety offences, corporate manslaughter and food safety and hygiene offences definitive guideline
- Health and safety policies in the construction indsutry
- Heat stress
- Hoarding for construction sites
- Hydrogen embrittlement
- Legionnaires' disease
- Lighting of construction sites
- Methane and other site gasses from the ground
- Occupational health risk management in construction. A guide to the key issues of occupational health provision
- Personal protective equipment PPE
- Pollution
- Radon
- Reporting accidents and injuries on construction sites RIDDOR
- Risk assessment for construction
- Risk assessments and method statements RAMS
- Risk of rats in construction.
- Safe working in drains and sewers
- Safety briefing for construction workers
- Safety management
- Site inspector for construction works
- Site rules for construction sites
- Smoke detector
- Use of lighting to improve health and wellbeing
- Work at height regulations
- Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992
[edit] Infrastructure
- Accessibility in the built environment
- Big data
- Bluetooth
- Bridge construction
- Community infrastructure levy
- Crossrail 2
- Design standards for road development and improvement schemes
- Engineering smart cities
- Ethernet
- Global positioning systems and global navigation satellite systems
- Government construction and infrastructure pipelines
- Green infrastructure
- Growth and Infrastructure Act
- High Speed 2 (HS2)
- Highway drainage
- In-building wireless
- Infrastructure
- Infrastructure and Projects Authority
- Internet of things
- Keeping the Humber bridge moving
- Local area network
- London infrastructure plan
- Masterplanning
- National heat map
- National Infrastructure Delivery Plan 2016-2021
- National infrastructure plan
- Northern Powerhouse transport blueprint
- Open data
- Overview of the road development process
- Smart buildings
- Smart home
- Smart technology
- River engineering
- Road construction
- Road development process
- Road improvement scheme consultation
- Road investment strategy
- Runway construction
- Tunnelling
- Types of road and street
- Water engineering
- WiFi
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