Design and Analysis of a Two-storey Primary School Building Located at Changaon, LJN (Rural Area)

Abstract

This capstone project involves the comprehensive structural design and analysis of a two-storey reinforced concrete (RCC) primary school building located in the rural village of Changaon, LJN, Bangladesh. The project will incorporate the concepts of structural safety, architectural functionality and environmental sustainability as a single design solution. The main aim of this work is to come up with a safe, economical and environmental friendly educational building that can serve rural population in the site under climatic and geotechnical environments. The building has ten classrooms with the capacity to seat forty students and other necessary functional spaces such as teachers room, headmasters office, common room and separate sanitary facilities to the male, female and teaching staff. Subsoil on the site has got a safe bearing capacity of 3500 psi hence suitable with shallow foundations. Because the location is in the Seismic Zone 2, which is established by Bangladesh National Building Code (BNBC 2020), the structural system has been designed with earthquake resilient characteristics. The design process involves architectural and structural nature. AutoCAD has been employed in completing the architectural layout and dimensional planning but the detailed analysis of the structural analysis of beams, slabs, columns, and footings will be performed by using ETABS software. Microsoft Excel will be used in the cost estimation and construction planning, which will be accurate when it comes to resources management and budgeting. In order to meet the environmental demands, the project will entail the designing of a septic tank system which is appropriate in rural waste management hence proper sanitation without the reliance of a central sewer system. This project shows that the engineering principles can be successfully used to develop an infrastructure that is safe, economical and sustainable, which is the part of the work of civil engineers in the rural development. It also enhances our perception of the practical uses of BNBC 2020, structural modeling by means of ETABS, and detailed drawing with the help of AutoCAD which gives us a full bridge between theory and practice.