Construction Equipment and Automation
Get the full GTU study material, English & Gujarati textbook PDFs, syllabus curriculum, and solved previous year question papers.
English Book & Chapters
English Book Coming Soon
We are working hard to add this material. Stay tuned for updates!
Follow on Instagram for UpdatesGTU Previous Year Papers
Construction Equipment and Automation Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Construction Equipment and Automation (subject code 3160617) as prescribed for Civil Engineering · Semester 6 divides the course into 5 units, covering 31 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 (3160617)Unit 1 Introduction
- Unique features of construction equipment
- Need of construction Equipment
- past history
- Construction Equipment: Capacity
- owning and operating cost and Productivity of Different Equipment: Excavators
- Plastering machines
- Pre-stressing jacks and grouting equipment
- Cranes and Hoists
- Concrete Batching Plants, etc
Unit 2 Automation in Construction Industry
- Need and Benefit of automation: Automation in Canal lining
- Automation in Construction of Highway
- Automation in concrete technology
Unit 3 Drones
- Project Monitoring- real time data
- aerial mapping
- land survey
- quantity survey
- quality survey
- structural health monitoring survey
- under water survey
Unit 4 Robotics in Construction
- Benefits of robots in construction industry with respect to time
- Use of robots for construction activities like Brick laying
- Material Handling
- Structural steel cutting
- Rebar tying/bending
- Form work mould making
- 3D printing- print complex
- parts and objects of homes
- bridges and roads 3D Scanner for surveying and project management
Unit 5 Introduction to Advanced Technologies
- Virtual Reality
- Augmented Reality
- Building Information Modeling (BIM). 05 Subject Code: 3160617 w.e.f
Study on Android App:
