45-Day Site Internship in Building Construction [2026]

Explore the architectural plan of the first floor, detailing space conversions from the ground floor, including bedrooms, lounges, balconies, and guest rooms, plus elevations and rainwater harvesting features.

Read footing drawings to specify concrete grade, rebar grade, five feet excavation depth, pad footing details, and F1–F7 layouts for ground-plus-two RCC construction.

Explore column layout and reinforcement details for a ground-plus-one structure, including grid marking, column sizes c1–c4, footing-column relationships, bar diameters and counts, and two-leg ties at 175 spacing.

Explore the plinth beam layout that connects columns, with nine by fifteen inch beams, top two 12 diameter bars and bottom three 12 diameter bars, plus seven inch stirrup spacing.

Explore ground beam reinforcement and slab detailing, including ground floor roof beam shuttering, crank bars, curtailment bars, and top versus bottom reinforcement for beam and slab layouts.

Explore basic vastu planning by mapping a nine-part grid around vastu purush, aligning directions and five elements—water, fire, air, earth, space—with placement of puja rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, toilets, and Brahmasthan.

Explore structural design using ETABS to model a residential building, apply live and dead loads per IS 875, and analyze beam and column sizing.

Learn column design using Excel sheets, determining steel requirements for a 500 kN load on a 200 by 450 column with M25 concrete, and selecting 25 and 20 mm bars.

Learn beam design using excel sheets by calculating reinforcement in tension and compression zones for a reinforced concrete beam with M25 concrete, selecting bar sizes and stirrup spacing.

Create an Excel sheet template to estimate quantities for a residential building, starting with substructure excavation. Organize the measurement sheet with serials, item descriptions, units, and borders.

Master footing excavation quantity estimation by applying offset and 300 working space, then compute depth from natural ground level using length, breadth, and depth.

Learn to estimate stone soling quantities for footings, verify input with drawings, and compute cubic meter quantities in Excel using footing sizes, 50 mm offsets, and thickness.

Estimate sand filling and PCC quantities for footings by adjusting thickness, duplicating existing entries, and calculating about 3.75 m3 of sand filling for 21 footings with M10 grade PCC.

Master column shuttering quantity and concrete calculations for footing-based columns. Identify column-footing mapping from drawings, determine column height to the plinth beam, and compute perimeter-based shuttering quantities.

Learn to estimate staircase concrete quantities on site by calculating waste lab, landing slab, and steps, using riser, tread, inclined length, and landing beam.

Compute staircase shuttering quantities for landing slab, steps, and landing beam using perimeter and triangular area formulas, totaling 64.363 m² across three floors.

Master brickwork calculation and excel sheet preparation for on-site quantity estimation, covering outer wall dimensions, horizontal and vertical layouts, area with and without deductions, and openings for doors and windows.

Perform outer wall brickwork calculation by computing running meters and area for a nine-inch thick exterior wall, then apply deductions for openings and consider lintel and sill concrete.

Learn how to estimate interior horizontal nine inch brickwork for internal walls by taking wall length from column outer to column outer, applying openings and lintel deductions, and calculating volume.

Learn how to estimate horizontal brickwork for a 4.5-inch internal wall, covering dimensioning, height from floor to slab bottom, lintel considerations, and area and volume calculations.

Learn to estimate internal wall brickwork by identifying nine inch and 4.5 inch vertical walls, calculating lengths and heights, and applying deductions for puja doors and openings with lintel considerations.

revises a miscalculation of a lintel for a pooja door opening and explains when to use full versus cut lintels, with updated calculations from 2.82 m by 0.2 m lintel.

Learn to estimate the first floor outer brickwork of a 9 inch thick wall, including running meters, area, lintel placement, deductions for doors and windows, and parapet wall considerations.

Learn to estimate first-floor brickwork for nine-inch outer walls and 4.5-inch internal walls by calculating lengths, applying deductions for openings, and computing lintel and seal areas.

Learn to prepare a bar bending schedule and steel estimation in Excel, including project setup, element types, drawings, reinforcement details, and formatting for a footing on a G+2 project.

Learn to prepare footing bar bending schedules for F1 footings by calculating bars, spacing, cutting lengths, and weights using linked Excel with round-up and revision handling.

Compute total steel for a G+2 building by consolidating footing quantities, listing diameter bars (10, 12, 16, 20, 25, 32), interlinking to metric tons, and applying 5% wastage.

Compare bend deduction rules and the two-thirds depth rule for footing design. Understand how project type, client, and contractor practices affect development length (L) and reinforcement detailing.

Learn to design raft foundation, compare with combined footing, and compute cutting length, lap length, and bar placement for 12 m spans with 16 diameter bars, including cover.

Calculate cement block quantities per square meter using a 0.4 by 0.2 m block, then add 10% wastage. Apply the result to project areas to optimize materials, time, and labor.

Learn practical thumb rules for estimating cement, sand, steel, and aggregate on site. Apply quick volume calculations and unit conversions to estimate slab and column needs.

This lecture explains a thumb rule to find slab centering plates using two by three feet mild steel plates and estimates quantity from the slab area minus beam bottom area.

Learn to perform a brief quantity estimation for a house project, covering RCC, concrete, columns, plastering, tiling, and finishes. Compare bids to prepare a bill of quantities and total cost.

Navigate the ETABS user interface, configure display units and design codes (Indian standard), set up grids, and switch between plan and 3D views for on-site building practice.

Explore controlling grid spacing in AutoCAD with uniform and custom options, counting x and y grid lines and setting meter distances for building plans.

Discover how to set up grid lines for a g+2 house plan by aligning column centers and drawing vertical and horizontal lines that pass through the maximum columns on site.

Learn to activate the bounding plane option in ETABS and navigate plan, 3D, and elevation views to inspect specific stories and visualize bounding plans.

Size beams, columns, and slabs on site using thumb rules: beam depth around length/10, column 230x450 with depth/width ≥0.4, and slab thickness by shorter span (120–200 mm).

Explore one story, all studies, and similar story options to model columns, beams, and slabs. Learn how these settings replicate across floors for a duplex building.

Explore how to model a building frame, assign beam and column sizes, view the 3D sections, and apply story and element colors to distinguish floors, beams, columns, and slabs.

Learn to use the replicate option to copy columns, beams, and slabs across stories while assigning new beam and column properties and editing the grid system. Practice setting plan offsets, distances in x and y axes, and applying linear, radial, or mirror replication to build and adjust story 13 efficiently.

Learn to draw balconies, connect beams to slabs, create openings in slabs and shear walls, and reshape objects, while understanding how shear walls influence center of mass and stiffness.

Define concrete grades and rebar in etabs, then assign beam, column, and slab sections. Use trial sizes such as beams 230×450 mm, columns 300×450 mm, slabs 125–200 mm.

Learn to read architectural and structural drawings and practically calculate dead load and live load on slabs, using IS 875 guidance and on-site room, balcony, and stair loads.

Define load patterns and generate ETABS load combinations using dead, live, and self-weight loads. Apply IS 1893-2016 earthquake and wind loads, then run analysis to review moments and member forces.

Check footing reaction and size the footing using Excel sheets by analyzing concrete frame design, punching shear, and reinforcement layouts to ensure safe on-site foundations.

Learn to check a beam's bending moment from structural drawings, analyze negative and positive bending moments and shear forces, and plan detailing and reinforcement for floors and plinths.

Explore detailing of stirrups, determine spacing and the logic behind providing them, and understand how shear forces are resisted by concrete, aggregate interlocking, main reinforcement, and stirrups.

Identify the basic measurement units used in civil engineering, such as cubic meters for concrete and excavation, and densities for cement, aggregates, water, steel, and bricks to guide material calculations.

Calculate cement and sand quantities from the dry volume of mortar using a cement-sand ratio 1:4, account for 33% water, and convert to cubic metres and bags.

Learn to calculate cement, sand, and aggregate quantities for concrete works of any grade, converting volumes to mass with mix ratios, bags, and density considerations.

Calculate wall volume and block size with mortar (600 mm by 200 mm by 100 mm) to determine block volume, number of blocks, cement and sand quantities, and 5% wastage.

Explain plinth (built-up) area, carpet area, and super built-up area, show how wall thickness and common areas influence space, and define setback area and circulation areas for site planning.