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Group 2 was appointed to design the foundation, beam, slab, wall and roof for 6 units of modern floating single story villas being built at Port Dickson. A caisson foundation is proposed as it is suitable for soft clay soil and floating structures. Caissons can be prefabricated and floated to site or built on site with rebar and concrete. To construct the caissons, the soil is dug with an auger until bedrock, a steel casing is installed, rebar is centered inside and concrete is poured from bottom to top to displace groundwater. There are 5 types of caissons that could be used.

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Group 2 was appointed to design the foundation, beam, slab, wall and roof for 6 units of modern floating single story villas being built at Port Dickson. A caisson foundation is proposed as it is suitable for soft clay soil and floating structures. Caissons can be prefabricated and floated to site or built on site with rebar and concrete. To construct the caissons, the soil is dug with an auger until bedrock, a steel casing is installed, rebar is centered inside and concrete is poured from bottom to top to displace groundwater. There are 5 types of caissons that could be used.

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FACULTY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT

UNIVERSITI TUN HUSSEIN ONN MALAYSIA

GROUP ASSIGNMENT

Group Number : 2

Group member : 1. DAYANG ALYA FARZANA BINTI AWANG MOHAMARD @


MOHAMAD (CF210297)
2. NUR ALIYA BINTI OTHMAN (CF210307)
3. MINDDLETON MANJAH ANAK MALONG (CF210350)
4. KUMAR A/L MURALI (CF210258)
5. FOONG ZHI YEE (CF210295)

Section : 4

Course name : CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING

Code : BFC 21002

Lecturer’s name : Ts.Dr. Tong Yean Ghing

Session : II

Semester : 2021/2022
6 units of modern and luxury floating
single story villas as shown in the figure
are plan to be built at Port Dickson.
As a consultant, you company is appointed
to design the foundation, beam, slab,
wall and roof of the villas if the bearing
capacity of the soil is low and the soil is
soft clay.
1. Propose the suitable type foundation,
beam, slab, wall and roof of the villas
and justify your selections.
2. Illustrate the procedure of constructing
foundation, beam, slab, wall and roof
of the villas.
Foundation
1. Suitable foundation is deep foundation - Caisson Foundation.
Deep foundations are required when building on sand and other soft soil that
will not be able to absorb the load of the building. Instead, a foundation must be
established deep underground or even underwater, where contact with stronger layers
of the earth can be established.
A Caisson foundation is the most suitable foundation for 6 units of modern
and luxury floating single story villas. It is because a Caisson foundation is most often
used in the construction of a bridge, pier or other structure over water. But it can also
be used to support freeway overpasses, hillside homes, and more. Caisson can be
prefabricated, floated to the drilling site and placed in a dredged pit. Caissons can also
be built on- site with a mesh grid of rebar filled with concrete.

2. The procedure of constructing foundation of the villas.


A) To build a caisson foundation the loose land is dug with an auger until
bedrock is reached.
B) While digging, a hollow steel casing can be implanted to prevent the
sand or soil from caving in on the progress.
C) The reinforcing mesh rebar is then centered within the casing and
concrete is poured starting at the bottom and filling up the casing, forcing the
remaining groundwater out the top.
D) Once the concrete has adequately filled, the casing can be removed.

5 types variations of the caisson which are :


1. Open caissons - a box without a bottom sunken into the ground and
stabilized with weights for ballast and a muck tube to remove excess
groundwater. The pressurized chamber allows work to be done inside.
2. Pneumatic caissons - when maintenance works needs to be done deep
underground or underwater, these caissons are built to enable workers down
the shaft.
3. Monolithic caissons - Large single column caissons made of reinforced
concrete.
4. Sump caissons - Caissons with the ability to pump water from below.
Often used by offshore oil drillers to recirculate contaminated water.
5. Box caissons - A hollow concrete box with bottom and sides is
submerged and subsequently filled with concrete. In its hollow state, the box is
less dense than water and is at risk of floating out of position, but once filled it
is more permanent.

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