Field Engineering and Layout
Turning drawings into work in place on a building project: the field engineer's role, reading and reconciling the contract documents, dimension string checks and well-written questions, planning and checking site control on the right coordinate system and datum, the role of British Columbia and other provincial land surveyors, layout and checking of excavation, shoring, footings, dowels and anchor bolts, columns, walls, elevated slabs, cores, steel and wood frame, camber and wood shrinkage, CSA A23.1 and CISC tolerances, tolerance stacking by worst case, root-sum-square and simulation, floor flatness F-numbers, embeds, sleeves, openings and post-tensioning with embed registers and scanning before coring, constructability reviews and measuring before prefabrication, pour sequences, construction joints, stressing and reshoring, dry-in and rough-in sequencing, laser scanning and scan-to-model comparison, progress measurement, as-built records and handover, and a field engineering plan, following one invented mid-rise project throughout.
CON-315 Year 3 3 credits 12 lessons · 4 h 43 min
Offered by HSM University · Construction Management
This is the Canadian version of this course. See the American version.
What you'll learn
- Describe the field engineering function on a building project, its relationships with the site team, design team, surveyor and trades, and the habits that make layout reliable.
- Assemble the documents that govern an area of work, resolve conflicts using the contract's order of precedence, check dimension strings and write questions that get fast, useful answers.
- Plan, protect and check a site control scheme, work between the building grid and project coordinates on the correct datum and scale, and explain the role of licensed land surveyors in Canada.
- Lay out and check excavation, shoring, footings, dowels, underslab services and anchor bolts, and survey critical items before they are buried or built upon.
- Lay out and check columns, walls, elevated slabs, cores and steel, and allow for camber, deflection and wood shrinkage at interfaces.
- Identify the tolerances that apply to each system, measure against them with suitable methods, combine tolerances by worst case, root-sum-square and simulation, and manage tolerance compatibility at interfaces.
- Coordinate, lay out and check embeds, sleeves and openings with an embed register, and control coring and drilling in post-tensioned slabs with approvals and scanning.
- Run constructability reviews, rank and raise findings as proposals, distinguish constructability from value engineering, and measure as-built conditions before prefabricated elements are fabricated.
- Plan pour sequences and construction joints, track concrete strength for stressing, stripping and reshoring, and sequence dry-in and interior rough-in.
- Use total stations, scanners, photogrammetry and drones to verify tolerances, compare scans with the model, measure quantities for progress and monitor movement.
- Build as-built records continuously, document deviations and their dispositions, record concealed work and hand over records and control to the owner.
- Prepare a field engineering plan with responsibilities, hold points, capacity planning and outcome indicators for a building project.
Course content
12 lessons · 4 h 43 min total · final exam
- 1 The role of the field engineer 24 min · quiz
- 2 Drawings, specifications and field questions 26 min · quiz
- 3 Site control networks and gridlines 24 min · quiz
- 4 Layout for excavation, foundations and anchor bolts 25 min · quiz
- 5 Layout for structure: columns, walls, slabs and steel 25 min · quiz
- 6 Tolerances and tolerance stacking 24 min · quiz
- 7 Embeds, sleeves, blockouts and openings 24 min · quiz
- 8 Constructability reviews and prefabrication 22 min · quiz
- 9 Sequencing the work 23 min · quiz
- 10 Field measurement, reality capture and verification 22 min · quiz
- 11 As-built records and handover 22 min · quiz
- 12 Capstone: a field engineering plan for an invented project 22 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Requirements
Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.
Description
Turning drawings into work in place on a building project: the field engineer's role, reading and reconciling the contract documents, dimension string checks and well-written questions, planning and checking site control on the right coordinate system and datum, the role of British Columbia and other provincial land surveyors, layout and checking of excavation, shoring, footings, dowels and anchor bolts, columns, walls, elevated slabs, cores, steel and wood frame, camber and wood shrinkage, CSA A23.1 and CISC tolerances, tolerance stacking by worst case, root-sum-square and simulation, floor flatness F-numbers, embeds, sleeves, openings and post-tensioning with embed registers and scanning before coring, constructability reviews and measuring before prefabrication, pour sequences, construction joints, stressing and reshoring, dry-in and rough-in sequencing, laser scanning and scan-to-model comparison, progress measurement, as-built records and handover, and a field engineering plan, following one invented mid-rise project throughout.
Part of the Construction Management stream, typically taken in year 3.