Buliding & Town Planning
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Buliding & Town Planning Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Buliding & Town Planning (subject code 2140607) as prescribed for Civil Engineering · Semester 4 divides the course into 6 units, covering 20 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2140607)Unit 1 Introduction to buildings, Type of buildings, Principles of
- building planning
- Principles of architecture composition
Unit 2 Building by–laws as per National Building Code,
- Standards for residential buildings
- Building by–laws of local authority
- standards for industrial
- commercial and institutional buildings
Unit 3 Planning of earthquake resistant building considering
- consideration of locating staircase and overhead water tank
- most sensitive to earthquake
Unit 4 Preparing working drawing of residential building,
- software application in planning
- row houses and apartments with scale proportion
- open spaces standard as per F.S.I. permissible
Unit 5 Elements of perspective views, Types of views such as one
- two point perspective etc
Unit 6 Building services like water supply, drainage,
- electrification etc. for modern buildings 04 4 B TOWN PLANNING 1 Historical aspects and origin of Town Planning in the World and in India 03 5 2 Necessity of Civic surveys for Planning purpose
- data and its presentation and analysis
- Fundamental principles of Town Planning 05 8 3 Land use Planning and percentage of different Land uses as per category of town. 05 8 4 Components of town such as Zones
- Road Network, CBD, Neighbour hood planning
- Development controls for new town planning schemes for growth negotiation 05 8 5 Formation of Slums
- Reasons of Slum formation
- remedial measures for avoiding slum foundation 03 8 6 Introduction to smart city
- its Characteristics as per present scenario