Questions bank for site engineers written test

1. Please define size of water reservoir for a community having 320 families; every family has 7 members, take
water consumption rate 90lit/cap, operation hour are 8?

2. Please Design the following one end continuous slab (6x3) M?

3. Determine power of pump for a community having 220 families and irrigation of some trees, every family has 8
member, water consumption rate is 45lit/cap, required flow discharge is 2,5lit/sec and static head is 115M and
dynamic head is 135M, pump efficiency is 80% and motor efficiency is 85%?
4. Please define terms:
a. Permissible Pressure. b. Net safe bearing capacity, c. Net ultimate bearing capacity.

5. Please define a footing is design to response what?

6. Please explain, we have plan to construct a boundary wall for a solar generated water supply system, assume
that the thickness of wall is 35cm, what should be the minimum primary thickness of wall footing according to
ACI?

7. What are the major cause of water pollution please explain?

8. What are Water Pollution Control Processes?

9. What is the process for removing color from water?

10. Assume, what we have a pipe scheme project and we are behind the schedule what should we done to be
complete the project on time?
11. Please define why project fails?

12. What is the important test to be conducted on reinforcing steel bars?

13. Please define what compressive strength of cement and how many grade of cement do you know?

14. How many percent of concrete paste covered by cement?

15. What should be the angle with horizontal ground for installation solar array?

16. What are the common types of concrete curing by water?

17. What type of aggregate should be selected for a concrete produced, in respect to origin?

18. A community with population 22000, has an average water demand 600lit per capacity per day, of ordinary
construction with floor area of every floor 1000M2 and height of 6 stories, determine water amount for domestic
and what will be the rate of average, minimum and maximum sewage?

19. Please define common modules of supervision?.

20. Assume that we have a water tank of (4x4x2.5) M, the slab and holding walls has uniform thickness of 20Cm of
RCC, and column dimensions are (40x40) Cm, 50M3 of water has stored at 4C temperature, if it has four
columns A, B, C and would be the intensity of load at the bottom of column C, only, height of tower is 10M?
21. Please define types of sanitary landfills, for solid waste management?

22. Please define types of cracks in concrete product?

23. Please define how many types of sedimentation tanks do know?

24. Please explain below terms in water purification?
A. coagulation. B. flocculation.
25. Please define what is quality control of concrete work in construction and how could be conducted?
26. Please define what causes segregation in concrete?
27. Assume that we would like to carry a water supply pipeline to a village 1000M away from the water sources,
while water sources is location in place 20M higher than consumers what would be the ratios of slope in meter?
28. What is the formula for calculating diameter of pipe if velocity of flow is not known?
29. Suppose a RCC column will carry 30Ton load The compressive strength of the column would be 250Kg/Cm2,
steel strength is 4200 Kg/Cm2 what would be the,
a. Size of the column?
b. What would be the minimum number of 16mm steel bars?
30. Assume that a solar system generates 13Kw electricity for a water supply project, we need to install a circuit
breaker what should be the size of circuit breaker?

31. What is the specific procedure for placing ties in a RCC column?
32. What would be the amount of cement sand paste in M3 for plastering a wall of 200M2 with the thickness of 2cm
plaster layer?

33. How earthworks of irregular surface would be estimated?

34. What are the components of a sanitary land fill please explain?
35. Please explain what solid waste hierarchy pyramid describe?
36. What are the names of commonly used plasticizers used in fresh concrete to increase workability of concrete?

37. What for retarder admixture use in fresh concrete, and what are the commonly used retarders?

38. Please define how fresh concrete could be saved from freezing and thawing, and what admixture could be
prescribed for this purpose?

39. Please explain, in emergencies for the most short time for how many people one latrine would be constructed?

40. Please explain in schools settings how litters of water would be estimated for every student, and please also
explain what activities would be included and and what be excluded.

41. Please explain what are the possible places that drinking water could be contaminated by e-coli, and how could
be protected?
42. Please explain for how many household one water tap would be constructed in emergencies?

43. Please define, we would to construct a retaining wall in a bottom of hell to stop land sliding we required height of
wall is 4m, what would be the minimum and what would be the maximum width of the wall at bottom?

44. Please explain for how many people 1 hand pump would be constructed and what should be the discharge rate?

45. Please define what causes segregation in concrete?

46. Please define types of cracks in concrete product?

47. What are the minimum and maximum dosage of plasticizers use to increase workability of concrete?
48. Please define, if An RCC beam supposed to be constructed under an elevated water tank and clear distance
49. Why projects fails, write down at least five reasons?