DAYANANDA SAGAR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, 15/03/17

(An Autonomous Institute Affiliated to VTU, Belagavi)

ShavigeMalleshwara Hills, Kumaraswamy Layout, Bengaluru-560078
Architecture
SQC Notes – CIA II
1 Explain the process to calculate the following

a) Volume of cement required for 1m3 of Concrete

Material estimation include sand, cement, coarse aggregate and steel for a particular mix
design. Let us consider a mix design of 1:1.5:3 for our estimation practice. The dry volume
of total materials required is considered as 1.54 times the wet volume of concrete, due to
voids present in sand and aggregates in dry stage. Therefore, for our calculation, we will
consider the total volume of materials required as 1.54 m3 for 1 m3 of wet concrete.

a) Bags of cement required:

Volume of cement required for 1m3 of Concrete = = 0.28 m3

Then number of bags of cement (volume of one bag of cement = 0.0347 m3)

= 8.07 bags of cement.

b) Quantity of steel reinforcement in various building elements eg: Foundation,

columns, beams, roof slab, cement concrete road etc

Estimation of Reinforced Steel:

Quantity of steel required depends on components of structure, i.e. slabs, beams, columns,
foundations, roads etc. To estimate the steel required, there are two methods.

First method is, when we have the drawing available, we can calculate the total weight of
steel required divided by total volume of concrete for different components. This will give
us the weight of reinforcement steel per cubic meter of concrete.

Second method is assuming the percentage of reinforcement for different components.

Following are the percentage of reinforcement steel generally required per different
components. Its values can vary from structure to structure, and can be assumed from past
experiences of similar structure.

For foundation = 0.5 to 0.8% of concrete volume

For slabs = 1.0 % of concrete volume.
For Beam = 2 % concrete volume.
For column = 2.5 % of concrete volume.
For RCC Roads, 0.6% concrete volume
 c) Rate Analysis of Brick Masonry work
Rate Analysis of brickwork requires rates of various materials like cement, sand, bricks, and
rates for labour i.e. mason and other labours. The rates of these varies with location and time.
These may be obtained from the schedule of rates of particular location or can be taken from
local market and shall be multiplied with the quantities of materials and labours estimated to
get the rate analysis

For 1m3 of brick masonry, the number of standard size of bricks required is 494.

Labour Estimation for Brick Masonry:

Brick laying mason is required along with, labours for carriage of materials (sand, cement, bricks, and
water), mixing and transporting mortar.

The quantity of labour is expressed as requirement of labour in days for 1m3 of brick masonry.

1. Mason: The quantity of mason required for 1m3 of brickwork is taken as 0.94 days.

2. Labour: The quantity of labour for various works like carriage of materials, mixing of mortar,
transporting of mortar etc. are clubbed. The labour required for 1m3 of brick masonry is for 1.57 days.

The cost of various tools, transportation of materials etc. shall be suitably taken as lump sum for the
given location.

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