Mar 29, 2024  
2017-2018 Undergraduate Academic Catalog 
    
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CM 2200 - Building Construction Methods

2 lecture hours 2 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
This course provides familiarity with the crew labor and equipment activities typically applied in building construction. Emphasis is placed on construction techniques involving the more common materials, as student in the AE 1231  Building Construction Materials course. Laboratories highlight teamwork for the crew labor tasks applied to common assemblies and drawings of the architectural details necessary for their proper construction. (prereq: AE 1231 ) (coreq: AE 1001 )
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  • Develop a working knowledge of surveying equipment and techniques required to do basic construction layout 
  • Understand the care and handling of equipment 
  • Know how to set up an operate a transit
  • Understand horizontal distances taping and EDM
  • Understand horizontal angles, reading, recording, and repetition
  • Understand horizontal curve theory and practice
  • Understand topography 
  • Understand construction layout, distances and angles, and error tolerance
  • Understand the basics of U.S. federal land system, deeds and descriptions
  • Understand differential leveling, theory and practice
  • Understand traverses, closed polygon; measuring calculations and layout
  • Understand how to set up and operate a total station 
  • Understand how to set up and operate a GPS unit

Prerequisites by Topic
  • Construction Materials

Course Topics
  • Introduction to surveying: measuring horizontal distances; pacing, and using a cloth and steel tape
  • Leveling: setting up and operating the transit as a level, reading and calculating elevations
  • Measuring horizontal angles: setting up and operating the transit
  • Traversing: measuring, mathematically closing and setting a traverse in the field
  • Horizontal curves: computing and laying out a horizontal curve
  • Earthwork volume computations: measuring earthwork quantities by x-sectioning 
  • Topographic surveying discussion 
  • Boundary survey principles and construction staking techniques will be discussed in class and a complex construction layout will be performed in the field
  • Coordinate systems and construction layout techniques
  • Equipment calibration and state of the art equipment discussion and demonstrations 
  • Global Positioning Systems

Coordinator
Blake Wentz



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