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UNIVERSITY OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

SFTI CAMPUS
NETD CIVIL ENGINEERING
CIVIL ENGINEERING PROJECT 1 –PRAC2016
PROJECT IDEAS ASSIGMENT

STUDENT NAME: Abraham Mohamed 84462

DUE DATE: 24TH October 2020 at 11:59 PM

LECTURER NAME: Ravi Baboola

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Project 1: Building homes that are resistance to earthquake

Project Description: This project will help all the residence that are being affected by

earthquake for the last couple of years. The last earthquake that Trinidad had was on the 17th

October 2020 it affect other countries such as Grenada and Venezuela, the magnitude of the

earthquake was a 4.5 it affected many people in the north area by cracking walls and even

destruction of homes. This project will upgrade the shear walls in all concrete structure homes

which will make the wall absorbs as much vibration as possible and not crack.

Location: The area that will be mostly focus on applying this project is on the north and south

side of Trinidad

Benefits:

1. Little or no repairs is being done to houses after an earthquake

2. Reduce the risk of Furniture being Destroy

3. Little or no harm to humans during the earthquake

Stakeholders: Civil Engineers, and Hardware’s

Picture showing Areas affected by Earthquake

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Project 2: Construction of Additional Car Park for San Fernando General Hospital

Project Description: This project will help all patients to access car park however from the

past years’ experience people have been complaining about car park at the hospital that there is

not enough place for car park, I have been to the hospital in San Fernando several times and I

have experience the same problem that there is no park or the car park is full. However my aim is

to extend the car park and make it into several stories so this problem can be resolved. This

Hospital was built in February 1955 and the car park was still not enough at that time.

Location: Independence Ave, San Fernando

Benefits:

1. Reduce stress of patients to be looking for a Park

2. Convenience for vehicle owners

3. Emergency Responds Accessibility - for example (If the hospital calls the family and

says that there love one only has a certain time to live and within minutes they arrived,

but there is no car park it will leave a stain in that person life and will miss the last minute

of they love one.)

Stakeholders: Civil Engineers, Contractors and Solid Waste Management Company

(SWMCOL).
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Project 3: Recycle and Reuse Construction Waste

Project Description: This project will help recycle and reuse construction waste in Trinidad

and Tobago. There is a lot of construction going on that produce waste product such as wood,

nails, and bricks sometimes concrete. All of this waste cost a lot of money to dispose in

transportation and labour .

Location: Where ever there is construction going on in the country

Benefits:

1. Reduce cost to dispose

2. Reduce time and effort finding area to dispose waste

3. The waste is converted to a more usable form for example the concrete and bricks and be

used for backfill and the wood can be used as garden mulch etc.

Stakeholders: Civil Engineers, Contractors and Solid Waste Management Company

(SWMCOL).
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