SERG Course - Evening 3

Part 1a Concept

Speaker
Michael Chung – Partner @ Hurst Peirce and Malcolm LLP
Health and Safety Information

• No planned fire drill

• Familiarise yourself with the emergency exits
• Leave belongings behind

South Eastern Counties Regional Group – Exam Preparation Course

Homework from last week

• 2012 January Q1

South Eastern Counties Regional Group – Exam Preparation Course

2012 Jan Question 1

South Eastern Counties Regional Group – Exam Preparation Course

2012 Jan Question 1
Feedback

South Eastern Counties Regional Group – Exam Preparation Course

2012 Jan Question 1 – Option 1

South Eastern Counties Regional Group – Exam Preparation Course

2012 Jan Question 1 – Option 2

South Eastern Counties Regional Group – Exam Preparation Course

Section 1A
• Experience and Execution • Spatial Awareness
• Two Distinct and Viable • Spotting Important bits from the
Solutions Question
• Functional Framing • Summary – What to do
• Load Transfer • Summary – What NOT to do
• Serviceability • Questions?
• Choice of Schemes • Interactive Examples
• Car Parks • Final Questions?

South Eastern Counties Regional Group – Exam Preparation Course

Experience and Execution

• Experience
– Ability to produce two schemes
– Practice to supplement experience
• Execution
– Providing the components of the answer in the given
timescale

South Eastern Counties Regional Group – Exam Preparation Course

Two Distinct and Viable Solutions

• Distinct Solutions
– How Distinct do schemes have to be?
– Load paths
– Materials
– Grids
– Foundations
• Examples of Distinct Solutions ****
• Viable Solutions
– Proof of viability
– Which elements?
• Balanced answers for all parts
• What not to do

South Eastern Counties Regional Group – Exam Preparation Course

Two Distinct and Viable Solutions
- What not to do?
• Have options for each component and not complete
schemes
• Elaborate on the preferred scheme and ignore the
second scheme
• Elaborate on the second scheme and ignore the
preferred scheme
• No calculations on viability and make the examiner prove
viability for you
• Too many calculations – this is not Part 2C

South Eastern Counties Regional Group – Exam Preparation Course

Functional Framing

• Sketches
– Tips on sketches
• Text Description
• What not to do
– Insufficient sketches – these are the backbone of the
script
– The whole answer on 2x A3 sheets

South Eastern Counties Regional Group – Exam Preparation Course

Load Transfer

• Sketches
– Vertical loads
– Buoyancy
– Horizontal loads
• What not to do
– No text description
– No sketches to show load paths

South Eastern Counties Regional Group – Exam Preparation Course

Serviceability

• Which elements?
– Long span beams especially concrete beams >10m
span
– Cantilevers
– Transfer beams
– Curtain walling
• What not to do.
– Ignore long span and cantilever elements
– 60m long transfer slabs
South Eastern Counties Regional Group – Exam Preparation Course
Choice of Schemes

• Generic points
• Question Specific
• What not to do
– Generic points only
– Too much elaboration on the choice of scheme

South Eastern Counties Regional Group – Exam Preparation Course

Car Parks

• Car Park as part of a larger building

• Multi Storey Car Park building
• Side comment on Overhead Cranes

South Eastern Counties Regional Group – Exam Preparation Course

Spatial Awareness

• Constraints from the Question

– Height
– Neighbouring buildings
– Culverts
• FFL
– Floor Depths

South Eastern Counties Regional Group – Exam Preparation Course

Spotting Important bits from the Question

• Always likely to be some constraints

– Floor depth
– Locations of columns
– Locations of bracing
– Transfer
– Loss of diaphragm
– Groundwater level
– Poor Ground
– Culvert
– Neighbours
– Etc.
– Read Part 1B

South Eastern Counties Regional Group – Exam Preparation Course

Summary – What to do

• Two distinct schemes

• Two balanced schemes
• Two complete schemes
• Proven viability
• Clear functional Framing in the sketches
• Description of schemes in the text
• Load paths vertically and horizontally
• Recommend a scheme

South Eastern Counties Regional Group – Exam Preparation Course

Summary – What NOT to do

• Schemes which are too similar

• One fully developed and one underdeveloped scheme
• Leave out elements such as foundations
• Get the marking examiner to prove viability for you
• Poor sketches
• Omit the description
• Omit to show load paths
• Generic concrete vs steel recommendations only

South Eastern Counties Regional Group – Exam Preparation Course

Questions?

South Eastern Counties Regional Group – Exam Preparation Course

Interactive Examples ***

South Eastern Counties Regional Group – Exam Preparation Course

Final Questions?

South Eastern Counties Regional Group – Exam Preparation Course

Homework for Next Week

• 2013 Apr Question 4

South Eastern Counties Regional Group – Exam Preparation Course

2013 Apr Question 4

South Eastern Counties Regional Group – Exam Preparation Course