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GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
CIVIL ENGINEERING (06)

BUILDING& TOWN PLANNING
SUBJECT CODE: 2140607
B.E. 4th Semester
Type of course: Civil Engineering
Prerequisite: Elements of drawing, Components of building and their types, Primary knowledge
of surveying and levelling
Rationale: A Civil Engineer has to be conversant with building and town planning and their
development controls, skill of preparing drawings of various types like, orthographic, perspective,
working drawings etc.
Teaching and Examination Scheme:
Teaching Scheme Credits Examination Marks Total

L T P C Theory Marks Practical Marks Marks
ESE PA (M) PA (V) PA
(E) PA ALA ESE OEP (I)
4 0 2 6 70 20 10 20 10 20 150
L- Lectures; T- Tutorial/Teacher Guided Student Activity; P- Practical; C- Credit; ESE- End Semester
Examination; PA- Progressive Assessment
Content:
Sr. No. Topics Teaching Module

Hrs. Weightage
A BUILDING PLANNING
1 Introduction to buildings, Type of buildings, Principles of 07 12
building planning, Principles of architecture composition
2 Building bylaws as per National Building Code, 06 12
Standards for residential buildings, Building bylaws of
local authority, standards for industrial, public, commercial
and institutional buildings
3 Planning of earthquake resistant building considering 03 10
symmetry, simplicity, continuity, consideration of locating
staircase and overhead water tank, most sensitive to
earthquake
4 Preparing working drawing of residential building, 06 10
software application in planning, detached, semidetached,
row houses and apartments with scale proportion, open
spaces standard as per F.S.I. permissible
5 Elements of perspective views, Types of views such as one 06 10
point, two point perspective etc
6 Building services like water supply, drainage, 04 4
electrification etc. for modern buildings
B TOWN PLANNING
1 Historical aspects and origin of Town Planning in the 03 5
World and in India
2 Necessity of Civic surveys for Planning purpose, types, 05 8
data and its presentation and analysis, Fundamental
principles of Town Planning
3 Land use Planning and percentage of different Land uses 05 8
as per category of town.
4 Components of town such as Zones, Road Network, CBD, 05 8
Neighbour hood planning, Development controls for new
town planning schemes for growth negotiation
5 Formation of Slums, Reasons of Slum formation, remedial 03 8
measures for avoiding slum foundation
6 Introduction to smart city, its Characteristics as per present 03 5
scenario.
Suggested Specification table with Marks (Theory):
Distribution of Theory Marks

R Level U Level A Level N Level E Level
10% 45% 35% 5% 5%
Legends: R: Remembrance; U: Understanding; A: Application, N: Analyze and E: Evaluate
and above Levels (Revised Blooms Taxonomy)
Note: This specification table shall be treated as a general guideline for students and teachers. The
actual distribution of marks in the question paper may vary slightly from above table
Reference Books:
1. Planning, designing building by Y. S. Sane, Allies Book Stall

2. Town Planning by G. K. Hiraskar
3. National Building Code-2005, New Delhi
4. Building Planning, Designing and scheduling by Gurucharan Singh, Standard Book House,
New Delhi
5. General Development Control Regulations published by AUDA and GICEA
6. Building Drawing by M. G. Shah, C. M. Kale and S. Y. Patki, Tata Mc Graw Hill, New Delhi
7. Town Planning by S.C. Rangwala, Charotar publishing House, Anand
8. Architecture- Form, Space and Order by Francis D.K. Ching
9. Architectural Graphics by Francis D.K. Ching
Course Outcomes:
After studying this subject students will be able to:

1. Comprehend local building bye-laws and provisions of National Building Code in respect of
building and town planning
2. Discuss various aspects of principles of planning and architecture in planning building and
mass composition
3. Explain the principles of planning and design considerations to construct earthquake resistant
building
4. Prepare working drawings, foundation plans and other executable drawings with proper
details for residential buildings
List of Experiments:
Term Work:
(A)
Four A1 Size Drawing sheet:
(1) Residential Planning: Two storied Building: Plans, elevation, section, lay-out plan, key plan, site
plan, area table, schedule of opening.Scale-1:100.
(2) Public Building: Ground Floor plan, typical floor plan, elevation, section, lay-out plan, key plan,
site plan, area table, schedule of opening.
(3) Working Drawing: sheet should accommodate min. six types with sectional details. ( Furniture
plan, Drainage lay out, Toilet Detail, Wood work detail, Kitchen detail, Electrical plan etc)
(4) Perspective Drawing: Two point perspective of sheet -1 planning.
(B)
Assignments:
(1) Assignment -1: Principles of Planning & Architecture
(2) Assignment -2: Building Bye laws
(3) Assignment -3: Town Planning
Design based Problems (DP)/Open Ended Problem:

1. eco friendly planning
2. energy efficient buildings
3. smart building planning
4. Project report for detached house to urban development authority for approval
5. Project report for neighbourhood society to urban development authority for approval
Major Equipment:
None
List of Open Source Software/learning website:
1. ocw.mit.edu
2. nptel.ac.in
ACTIVE LEARNING ASSIGNMENTS: Preparation of power-point slides, which include videos,

animations, pictures, graphics for better understanding theory and practical work The faculty will
allocate chapters/ parts of chapters to groups of students so that the entire syllabus to be covered. The
power-point slides should be put up on the web-site of the College/ Institute, along with the names of
the students of the group, the name of the faculty, Department and College on the first slide. The best
three works should submit to GTU.

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GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

CIVIL ENGINEERING (06)

Type of course: Civil Engineering

Teaching and Examination Scheme:

Teaching Scheme Credits Examination Marks Total

Sr. No. Topics Teaching Module

Suggested Specification table with Marks (Theory):

Distribution of Theory Marks

1. Planning, designing building by Y. S. Sane, Allies Book Stall

After studying this subject students will be able to:

Design based Problems (DP)/Open Ended Problem:

List of Open Source Software/learning website:

ACTIVE LEARNING ASSIGNMENTS: Preparation of power-point slides, which include videos,

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