1. ELEMENT OF BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
BCT 1033
ELEMENT OF BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
Lecturer : Mdm. Norhidayah Rasin
A2/LR-6

2. ELEMENT OF BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
Types of Building
Basic Materials Used for Buildings
Components of a Building
FOUNDATIONS
FLOORS
WALLS
ROOF
DOORS AND WINDOWS
TIMBER JOINERY
IRON MONGERY
STAIRCASE

3. Week Learning Outcomes Topics Assignt./ tasks Reference Books1
LO 1 – Introduction to Building
General
Types of Building
Components of a Building
ASSIGNMENT 1
(LO2, LO3, LO4, LOC 5 & LOC 6 )
Title : Construction Technology Vol 1,2 ,3 & 4, 2nd Edition
Author : Roy Chudley
Publisher : Blackwell
Year : 1987
Title : Construction Technology
Author : Roy Chudley & Roger Greeno
Publisher : Longman
Year : 1999
Title : The Construction of Building Vol 3,4
Author : Barry
Year : 1996
2-3
LO 2 – Basic Materials Used for Buildings
Stones
Bricks
Concrete
Metal
Timber
4-6
LO 3 - Foundations
Functions and Objectives
Materials of Foundations
Types of Foundations
Pad foundations
Raft foundations
Strip foundations
Pile foundations

4. Topics (LO2, LO3, LO4, LOC 5 & LOC 6 ) MID EXAM
Week
Learning Outcomes
Topics
Assignt./ tasks
Reference Books 7
LO 4 - Floor
Functional Requirements
Construction principle and materials
Types of Floor and Floor Finishes
ASSIGNMENT 1
(LO2, LO3, LO4, LOC 5 & LOC 6 )
Title : Construction Technology Vol 1,2 ,3 & 4, 2nd Edition
Author : Roy Chudley
Publisher : Blackwell
Year : 1987
Title : Construction Technology
Author : Roy Chudley & Roger Greeno
Publisher : Longman
Year : 1999
Title : The Construction of Building Vol 3,4
Author : Barry
Year : 1996 8
MID EXAM 9
LO 5 - Walls
Objectives and Functional Elements
Walling Materials
Classifications of Walls 10
LO 6 - Roofs
Function of Roof
Types of Roof

5. Types and Function of Doors Windows Types and Function of Windows 12
Week
Learning Outcomes
Topics
Assignt./ tasks
Reference Books 11
LO 7 – Doors and Windows
Doors
Types and Function of Doors
FINAL EXAM
(LOC 6, LOC 7, LOC 8, LOC 9 & LOC 10)
Title : Construction Technology Vol 1,2 ,3 & 4, 2nd Edition
Author : Roy Chudley
Publisher : Blackwell
Year : 1987
Title : Construction Technology
Author : Roy Chudley & Roger Greeno
Publisher : Longman
Year : 1999
Title : The Construction of Building Vol 3,4
Author : Barry
Year : 1996
Windows
Types and Function of Windows 12
LO 8 – Timber Joinery
Types and function 13
LO 9 – Iron Mongery
Types and Function
14-15
LO 10 - Staircase
Types of Staircase
Construction Requirements 16
FINAL EXAMINATION

6. ASSESMENT
40% - ASSIGNMENT (2 ASSIGNMENTS, GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL)
60% - EXAM (MID EXAM & FINAL EXAM)

7. TOPIC 1 :Introduction to Building

8. GENERAL
Buildings come in a wide amount of shapes and functions, and have been adapted for a wide number of factors:
building materials available
weather conditions
to land prices
ground conditions
specific uses and
aesthetic reasons
Buildings serve several needs of society – primarily as shelter from weather and as general living space, to provide privacy, to store belongings and to comfortably live and work.

9. What are the elements of Building Construction?
Refers to the dictionary
Building
Something that is built, as for human habitation; a structure.
The act, process, art, or occupation of constructing.
Element - A fundamental, essential, or irreducible constituent of a composite entity.
Elements - The basic assumptions or principles of a subject.

10. Non-residential building
Type of Building
Residential building
constructed for residential occupancy and can accommodate a person (s) to live in.
Non-residential building
used for some purpose other than residential.

11. Residential building single family housing (bungalow, terrace house)
multiple family housing (apartments, condominiums).

12. Non-residential building
commercial (bank, shopping mall, office building),
manufacturing/industrial (factory, refinery, mill)
agricultural (barn, greenhouse),
educational building (school, college, library),
government building (police station, post office),
military building (barracks, block house, fort)
religious building (mosque, temple, church).

13. COMPONENTS OF A BUILDING
Substructure
lowest support of a structure
Basically a structure that inside the ground level such as foundation, tunnel, cofferdam.
Superstructure
Extended part of the substructure
A structure that stands above the ground level
Example: Form of beam, slab and column
Material: steel structure, wood or reinforce concrete.

14. COMPONENTS OF A BUILDING
FOUNDATIONS
FLOORS
WALLS
ROOF
DOORS AND WINDOWS
STAIRCASE

15. FOUNDATIONS
FLOORS

16. WALLS
ROOF

17. DOORS AND WINDOWS

18. STAIRCASE