The document provides guidance on how to study building construction. It discusses preparing assignments by presenting information graphically and using proper scales and lettering. It also discusses studying methods like understanding construction elements and analyzing building programs. The document also covers collecting information from sources and selecting, relating, and noting information.
The document provides guidance on how to study building construction. It discusses preparing assignments by presenting information graphically and using proper scales and lettering. It also discusses studying methods like understanding construction elements and analyzing building programs. The document also covers collecting information from sources and selecting, relating, and noting information.
The document provides guidance on how to study building construction. It discusses preparing assignments by presenting information graphically and using proper scales and lettering. It also discusses studying methods like understanding construction elements and analyzing building programs. The document also covers collecting information from sources and selecting, relating, and noting information.
The document provides guidance on how to study building construction. It discusses preparing assignments by presenting information graphically and using proper scales and lettering. It also discusses studying methods like understanding construction elements and analyzing building programs. The document also covers collecting information from sources and selecting, relating, and noting information.
1. Present constructional information both in words and
graphically. All graphical presentation should be fully annotated and supplemented with descriptive essay.
2. Proficiency in sketching is important and achieved through
practice and confidence. The course, Building Communication, will help you a lot in this area.
3. Drawings are generally made to recognised scales.
4. Scales should be stated on every drawing and use a drawn
scale to help interpretation.
5. A scale for design or construction drawing is influenced by
(a) Standard size sheets for the whole project;
(b) Character and size of the subject being considered; (c) Time involved in the preparation of drawing; (d) Adequate and accurate communication of the information to those for whom the drawing is intended. (e) Refer to BS 3429 & BS 1192.
6. Sense of correct size of things and provide accurate
freehand sketches without a scale.
7. Ability to draw proportionally
8. Ability to sketch rapidly and clearly is a valuable assets for
examination purposes. 9 No drawing should be presented unless it is well arranged, the various parts being properly balanced and distributed and, if a number of answers are incorporated on one sheet, thought should be given to their disposition. If this advice is not carefully followed, it will be found that the work is unnecessarily cramped or crowded into one corner.
10. (a) For some drawings, give dimensions, the names of
all members and as many descriptive notes as possible.
(b) For others, only to show relationship or general
layout is sufficient, in which case few notes need be developed.
11. Not to break dimension lines for inserting the actual
figures, the figures should be written above and along the lines, preferably near the centre and generally to read from the bottom or right hand side of the drawing.
12. Good style of lettering:
(a) For examination, office work, building details and so
on, usually use capitals throughout, and write with speed and without mechanical aids (other than ruled guide lines).This type is suitable for notes on drawings, titles and headings.
(b) Hand-writing lettering should be legible, clean
looking and rapid in execution.
(c) Italics are satisfactory for small lettering when neatly
executed. (d) All letters must be either truly vertical or to a regular slope, same height except for projecting tops and tails in some styles, at regular intervals, equal spaces between letters, varying the shape of a letter slightly according to those adjacent also desirable.
13. Notes should
(a) be full enough to be understandable later;
(b) have references and sources clearly stated;
(c) be in a suitable form (eg loose-leaf, card index,
special note-book etc).
14. Refer to the following sheets as a guideline for providing
proper sketches or drawings. (B) Study Method
1. Avoid hard memory, but try to understand the function(s)
of each component or element appeared in the construction details. Based on the drawings or sketches you have provided, write in your own words a short essay to supplement and strengthen the information conveyed from the drawings or sketches.
2. Pay more attention on the TV programmes or news related
to building construction or architecture and try to analyse and provide critical comments based on the knowledge you have learnt from the lectures. In case of query, actively discuss with your lecturers.
(C) Collecting Information
1. Sources include the records of text readings for materials
through published reports, journals, articles, text and reference book information.
2. Necessary to collect and present information for several
purposes and assemble it as efficiently as possible or at least within the time allowed. Therefore it is important to be able to
(a) select appropriately from the information
available;
(b) relate and compare information;
(c) identify appropriate performance etc when a range of alternatives are available;
(d) appreciate the influence of one consideration on
another;
(e) rank in a priority when a context is given.
3. Selection of information by the method of elimination i.e.
the isolation of the factor or factors which you have decided to concentrate on. This decision may have been your own or it may have been established by the context of the question being answered.
4. Note taking is an important aid to the selection of
information, which helps assimilation of the information and will certainly help recall when questions are being answered without source material.
Prepared by Anthony Lai, based on and extracted from CEM notes.
