Civil Engineering Program

CVE 300

Summer Practice Report

Name: Ahmad AbuAlrub

Id: 2203966

Company name: AL-Daleel General Trading & contracting CO.

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 Table of Contents
1. Introduction........................................................................6
1.1 About company…………………………………………………..6
1.2 how sites start………………………………………………….…6
2. Health and safety…............................................................7
2.1 Safety regulations and requirements...............................................7
2.2 risks and hazards on site.................................................................7
2.3 insurance ………………………………………………………....7
3. Construction site ...............................................................8
3.1 the residence…………………………………..………………….8
3.2 AutoCAD drawings……………………………………………...9
4. Column procedure ..........................................................10
4.1 PVC pipes.....................................................................................10
4.2 wooden frame...............................................................................11
4.3 surveying.......................................................................................11
4.4 installing reinforcement steel........................................................12
4.5 attaching concrete spacer..............................................................12
4.6 Covering the column.....................................................................13
4.7 pouring concrete...........................................................................14
4.8 Result............................................................................................16
5. roof procedure .................................................................17
5.1 lifting ............................................................................................17
5.2 stairs..............................................................................................18
5.3 reinforcement steel installment for roof.......................................19
5.4 roof concrete pouring....................................................................19
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6. Conclusion ........................................................................20
7. Daily work summary form ............................................ 21

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 Figures
Figure 1: Company info and logo
Figure 2: Residence draw from inside

Figure 3: Residence draw from outside

Figure 4: Dimensions and Quantities of ingredients for every floor
Figure 5: Dimensions of the columns and the elevator rooms
Figure 6: Dimensions of the rooms, balconies and stairs
Figure 7: typical floor slab
Figure 8: PVC pipe
Figure 9: Wooden frame
Figure 10: Getting elevation with level
Figure 11: Crane
Figure 12: Installing reinforcement steel
Figure 13: Concrete spacer
Figure 14: attached concrete spacer
Figure 15: Covering steel
Figure 16: Done Covering process
Figure 17: Watering columns
Figure 18: Concrete pump
Figure 19: Concrete vibrator
Figure 20: Pouring concrete
Figure 21: Concrete column
Figure 22: concrete column and elevator room
Figure 23: elevator concrete
Figure 24: Roof foundation

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Figure 25: Stairs foundation
Figure 26: Roof steel installment
Figure 27: Roof

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 Introduction

1.1: about company

AL-Daleel General Trading & Contracting Co. is the leading construction company in
Kuwait. Since its launch in 1980 it has executed a diverse and far-reaching portfolio of major
construction projects in all sectors of real estate and infrastructure. Today, the company
encompasses an array of plant and state-of-the-art equipment as well as a multinational team
of more than 100 highly qualified staff. Committed to consistently achieve client satisfaction
by providing all construction related services including design on turnkey basis and assuring
timely completion of projects within budget and with excellent quality. Al Daleel General
Trading & Contracting Co. have been classified at the Central Tenders Committee under the
Second degree (2) constructions.

Figure 1

Company info and logo

1.2: how sites start

The landowner has to get approval from the municipality, fire station, and the ministry of
electricity. The municipality gives the decision of how many percent of the land can be built
and how many floors then giving the owner 4 points to build in, here comes the mission of
survey engineer. Then after this point, the owner is preparing an AutoCAD draws by an
architecture engineer, then starts to search for the best price with the fastest spending time for
the construction, and this step is done by tendering between the constructing companies,
company which gives the best deal takes the project. Finally, the work starts with the soil test.

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 Health and safety

2.1: Safety regulations and requirements

Safety precautions were a requirement implemented by the company at all stages. The
regulations enforced by authorities in Kuwait require all workers and visitors of any
construction site to wear protective equipment which consists of a helmet, safety shoes, and
safety overhaul (reflective jackets) Also, authorities require construction contractors to build
a temporary fence around the construction site and to put guardrails in high altitude floors, in
addition to a safety instructions board at the entrance of any site under construction. There
has to be a superintendent to be sure that the workers are following safety precautions. Some
of these precautions are using the safety equipment during working hours, don’t work besides
the edges of the building if it’s on a high altitude unless a safety harness (belt) is provided,
and not throwing tools or materials from high altitude.

2.2: risks and hazards on site

Physical and ergonomic hazards are the main hazards that face the workers and engineers on-
site and rarely chemical hazards. Supervising engineer is giving instructions about hazards
and risks on site to the workers and the superintendent, then the superintendent starts to be
like an alarm or reminds the workers to not be under risk.

2.3: insurance
Insurance can be self-insurance which means every worker has his own insurance to provide
the medical intervention in any injury case or instruction insurance which means any injury
cases in the site boundaries are under this insurance and it pays the treatment costs even if the
injured person is an individual and moved inside the site.

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 Construction site
3.1: The residence
The construction site took a place on a land of 40 x 26.25 m2, a residence will be constructed
on this land. This residence contains an underground parking area, ground floor, 7 floors, and
finally the roof. Every floor from the 1st till the 7th has 4 apartments with balconies, and
from the underground, till the roof, there is a place for 2 elevators, And finally the stairs for
the whole residence.

Figure 2 Figure 3

Residence draw from inside Residence draw from outside

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3.2: AutoCAD drawings
every construction has AutoCAD drawings that describe all the dimensions and it has a table
that describes the reinforcement steel quantity that has to be used in every floor and column,
for example, this report will be covering the first floor, in figure 4, the table is showing the
length and width of everything and how money steel should be used in columns and beams
and a lot of information about dimensions, Figure 5 is showing dimensions of columns and
elevator rooms and in figure 6 it's giving the floor dimensions such as rooms, stairs, and
balconies. Finally figure 7 is showing the number of ingredients, for example, T = 14 means
the thickness of layer slab and 6y10/m means 6 steels and their radius is 10. So learning what
is written on draws is so important otherwise engineers will be lost.

Figure 4 Figure 5

Dimensions and Quantities of ingredients for Dimensions of the columns and the
every floor elevator rooms

Figure 6 Figure 7

Dimensions of the rooms, balconies and stairs typical floor slab

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 Column procedure

The first step is starting with the last step in building a floor which is concrete curing.
The Last step is putting water on the concrete and wait for it until it cures, and with the
curing, the floor will be done.

4.1: PVC pipes

After that, the installing of PVC pipes is starting and these pipes mission is to transport water

Figure 8

PVC pipe

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4.2: wooden frame
before doing any procedure on the columns even before installing reinforced steel there has to
be a wooden frame to keep the dimensions of the columns safe otherwise there will be a
problem with it and the columns can be bigger or smaller than what it needs to be, and this
may cause a problem later.

Figure 9

Wooden frame

4.3: surveying
A surveying engineer is an engineer who uses an equipment to get the elevations, sizes, and
dimensions of the construction site.

This engineer is so important especially in buildings sites because he is the one who is getting
the height of every floor with using an equipment calls level.

Figure 10

Getting elevation with level

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4.4: installing reinforcement steel
Before installing reinforcement steel the welder starts tying the amount of steel that has to be
used in the columns as the responsible engineer says or as the AutoCAD drawing says then
its the crane’s mission to carry it to the floor that it will be installed at.

Figure 11 Figure 12

Crane Installing reinforcement steel

4.5: attaching the concrete spacer

A concrete spacer is a tool to eliminate the potential weakness in concrete and to keep the
steels in their places during the pouring of the concrete. Its attached to the reinforcement steel
after installing it by tying it with iron wires.

Figure 13 Figure 14

Concrete spacer attached concrete spacer

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4.6: Covering the column
covering the column is important to be able to pure concrete otherwise the concrete will spell
all around the steel and will not be in the steel to make a column.

Figure 15

Covering steel

While covering an engineer is coming to check the quantity of the steel that has been installed
to the column and its balance to be sure that its straight to not have any problems later This
cover is made of wooden blocks installed on the wooden frame that was installed at the
begging and wooden bars to support the wooden blocks. And to support all these there steel
bars are used to make these woodblocks stronger to be able to afford the pressure of the
concrete while it's pouring.

Figure 16

Done Covering process

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4.7: puring concrete
At the beginning of this process, workers are putting water into the covered columns to help
the concrete to cure, which means keeping concrete moist helps the curing process. Because
hardens concrete is a result of a chemical reaction between cement and water which calls
hydration and due to hot weather a lot of water can be gone due to evaporation and the makes
hardening slower.

Figure 17

Watering columns

Then a concrete pump is coming to start pouring the concrete into the columns, and while
pouring the concrete there is a device which is the vibrator, this device mission is to vibrate
inside the column while pouring the concrete to vibrate the air bubbles out and to distribute
the concrete in a good way into the column. After that, there is the time set and this is the
time that the concrete needs to harden and it depends from a country to a country due to
weather.

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 Figure 18

Concrete pump

Figure 19

Concrete vibrator

Figure 20

Pouring concrete

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4.8: Result
After pouring the concrete and giving it the time it needs to harden, workers start to remove
the armor they put on the reinforcement steel before pouring the concrete which includes
wooden blocks, wooden bars, and steel bars.

The result of all these procedures is a concrete column that can handle the weight and the
pressure of a 7 floors building.

Figure 21 Figure 22

Concrete column concrete column and elevator room

Figure 23

elevator concrete

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 roof procedure
the second step to make a floor is to cover it, to make a roof for it which needs multiple steps
to complete it

5.1: lifting
To start building a roof a foundation is a must condition, to make a roof for the floor an
equipment called jack support for construction is used, this equipment's mission is to lift a
load to able the workes to do their jobs on the roof which is not there yet. And after setting it
up by connecting it to each other, workers start to set on it a metal calls steel beams which are
used to support trusses and support the structure to afford more strength.

To complete this foundation and to be safe as much as it can, wooden bars are set above the
steel beams and it's installed to put above it the wooden blocks to install on it the
reinforcement steel which is needed to build the roof.

Figure 24

Roof foundation

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5.2: stairs
Doing stairs is as doing roof or columns it needs to get the dimensions of the stairs first then
by putting the wooden block to be a foundation for the stairs after that he reinforcement steel
will be installed on the block and with a wooden bar as the dimensions show the steps of the
stairs will be done..

Figure 25

Stairs foundation

Stairs have to be in this condition until the roof is ready to be poured with concrete at the
same time stairs will be poured too, otherwise bringing the concrete pump twice will be more
expensive.

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5.3: reinforcment steel installment for roof
after everything is ready and safe a crane is coming to carry the steel again but this time for
the roof and after the installment the workers start to tie the steel with the dimensions which
they have to consider, after that the responsible engineer comes and check everything to be
sure that everything is perfect.

Figure 26

Roof steel installment

5.4: roof concrete pouring

Roof pouring is exactly as column pouring a concrete pump is coming and with the use of the
construction vibrator the roof will be done after leaving it for a period of time to harden and
after it hardens workers put water on it to keep it moist, and finally after everything is ready
they start removing the roof’s and stair’s foundations and a worker is cleaning the roof from
any nail or wood to keep the place clean and safe.

Figure 27

Roof

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 Conclusion
To sum up, three rules in engineering has to be followed which is whatever the engineer does
it has to be affordable, safe, and fixable, and the construction process increases the
experience in many fields such as knowledge and teamwork, knowledge is not finishing in
construction sites especially by working with different engineers always that can give and
increase the knowledge by exchanging experience in the field. it teaches teamwork too
especially if it's a big project and has 500 workers and 5 engineers at least, if there will be no
teamwork and the work atmosphere is not healthy it will cause a big problem for the
construction. Understanding the technical side became so much easier after this experience.
Moreover, the gained information from the theoretical knowledge from university was so
helpful to understand what is happening on-site and as a result of this experience the
theoretical and the technical knowledge that civil engineer has to know on-site became much
more easier to talk about.

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Daily work summary form

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