Fieldtrip of Final year Civil Engineering students

The Final year Civil Engineering students of Don Bosco College of Engineering, Fatorda visited Zuari Brige and Nisha’s Play school on 26^th October 2018. They were accompanied by Prof. Oswyn Soares ,Prof. Starina Dias and Mr. Shantanu Dessai.

At the Zuari Bridge site at Agassaim the students were informed through a presentation by the project head that the Zuari bridge work is taken up by Dilip Buildcon Ltd.  and that the bridge is divided into three packages. Package one consists of approach road from Bambolim to Agassaim with elevated road, package two includes the main Zuari Bridge and package three consists of elevated road from Verna to Cortalim. He informed that the whole bridge length including the approach roads is 13.635 km which included the 640 meter long cable stayed bridge. He informed that the eight-lane bridge will have two carriageways of four-lanes and would connect Panjim and Margao across the river Zuari. They were later taken to the pile foundation site where they were shown rotary drilling process, the project head also explained to the students the concreting process for the piles and the pile caps and also explained the foundation problems encounted by them at the bridge site.

The latter half of the day the students visited House of Goa and Nisha’s Play school located at Porvorim where Architect Gerard Da Cunha explained to the students the general layout of the buildings  and spoke that the  design and construction of the school was done using recyclable materials. He explained to them that Nisha’s Play school situated near House of Goa was built on a slope, balancing the cutting and filling of soil .He said that the elements of both the buildings are designed in such a way to communicate the idea of different form and colour. In this energy efficient play school the Civil Engineering students were able to see various low cost techniques like windows were replaced with brick jali that provided sufficient light and breeze inside the building, roof slabs that were replaced by filler slabs to reduce the dead load of the slab, walls were made up of recycled  glass bottles, brick lintels,  scrap metal that was used for making window grills,salvage wood that was used for roof truss.