Importance and Scope of various fields of Civil Engineering: Surveying, Structural Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Water Resources Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Construction Planning and Project Management.

Basic Materials of Construction: Types and Uses of Bricks, Stones, Cement, Structural Steel, Wood and Concrete.

Structural Elements of a Building: Concept of Foundation, Plinth, Lintel, Chejja, Masonry wall, Column, Beam, Slab, Flooring and Staircase.

Emerging materials: Types and Uses of Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (AAC) blocks, Bamboo, Recycled plastics, Material selection criteria, Durability, Sustainability, Smart City concept.

Green Building: Green building materials and rating systems IGBC, LEED, GRIHA (Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment) for new buildings – Purpose – Key highlights – Point System with Differential weightage.

Force Systems: Concept of idealization, System of forces, Principles of transmissibility of a force, Resolution and composition of forces, Law of Parallelogram of forces, Concurrent and non-concurrent coplanar force systems, Moment of forces, Couple, Varignon’s theorem: Numerical examples.

Equilibrium and Support Reactions: Free body diagram, equations of equilibrium, Lami’s Theorem, Equilibrium of Coplanar Concurrent and Non -concurrent force systems: Numerical examples. Types of loadings, beams and supports, Concept of Statically determinate and indeterminate structures (Definitions with examples only), Support reactions: Numerical examples on Statically determinate beams.

Centroid of Plane areas: Introduction, Locating the centroid of rectangle, triangle, circle, semicircle and quadrant of a circle using method of integration, centroid of composite areas and simple built up sections: Numerical examples.