Furquan G. Syed, Civil & Structural EngineerGermanyIndiaUnited StatesUnited KingdomNetherlandsAustraliaEurope (European Union)
Selected work

Design and detailing of a G+3 building

Rajarhat, New Town

Context
Project
bays set by the grid planslab + beamscolumnsfootingsG+3: ground + 3 floors (schematic, not to scale)
Schematic drawn for this page, not output from the project. Project images to be added.

Problem

Take a four-storey building from grid planning to beam–column–footing detailing.

Method

  • Planned the floor and grid layout.
  • Designed the slab.
  • Distributed load and moments, and drew the bending moment and shear force diagrams.
  • Designed for shear.
  • Designed the columns and footings.
  • Detailed the beam–column–footing joints.