TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MOMBASA

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF BUILDING AND CIVIL ENGINEERING

BACHELORS OF TECHNOLOGY IN BUILDING AND CIVIL ENGINEERING

YEAR 2 SEMISTER II

BCE 2114

This attachment report is submitted in partial fulfillment of the academic requirements for the
Diploma in Technology in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in the School of Engineering and
Technology

INDUSTRIAL ATTACHMENT REPORT AT

RIMM GLOBAL CONSORTIUM LIMITED
Full Names: KENNEDY MUTHURA MURIUKI

Registration No: BTCE/268J/2020

Mobile no: O705434865

Supervisor: Eng. Richard Mburu Mwaura

Duration: 10weeks

Commenced: 26 September 2022

Completed: 19 December 2022

H.O.D: Joseph N Kuta

DECLARATION

I declare that this attachment report is my own work. Where collaboration with other people has taken
place, or material generated by other researchers is included, the parties and/or materials are indicated in
the acknowledgements or are explicitly stated with references as appropriate.

This work is being submitted for the Bachelors of Technology in Civil Engineering at the Technical
University of Mombasa. It has not been submitted to any other university for any other degree or
examination.

Names: Kennedy Muthura Muriuki

Signature……………………………….

Date: 30 January 2023

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DEDICATION

I wish to dedicate this work to my father, Mr. John Muriuki whose moral and financial support has
remained unrelenting, and my friend John Ogaya .

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 ABSTRACT

Industrial Attachment is a requirement by Technical university of Mombasa for one to graduate since its provide
the student with experience and competence in the field of study.

The purpose of this report is to provide the details of the institution of attachment, a description of all the
activities undertaken during the attachment period, the lessons learnt and challenges faced during the same.

Civil Engineering is a professional Engineering discipline that deals with design, construction and maintenance
of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams,
airport, sewage system, pipelines, structural components of buildings, and railways.

Structural design and cost estimation of materials for construction is one of the sub discipline of civil
engineering.

Eng. Richard Mburu who took me through the structural design and cost estimation which impacted me greatly
in my field since I was able to relate the theory part and field work. We did many projects which involved
designing flats, mansionette, Basements, and underground water tanks.

This projects which contributed to part of the above allowed me to acquire the vast knowledge of designing, and
other related civil Engineering sub disciplines.

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

First, I want to thank the Almighty God for bringing me this far and keeping me sound and safe with good life
during the entire field attachment period.

The development of this report took the effort, support and guidance of a number of people whom I wish to
thank.

I am grateful to my course COD Eng. Joseph N Kuta for his guidance and constructive criticisms.

I also wish to pay tribute to my attachment field supervisor, Eng. Richard M Mwaura who greatly influenced
me in my career by teaching me Structural Engineering, cost estimation and how to prepare work schedule.

I also thank my assessing lecturer Mr. Moses M Kagiri for assessing me and checking on how am doing during
the attachment period.

I also thank my father John Muriuki whose moral and financial support has remained unrelenting, Architect
Kelvin M Rukwaro, my friend John Maangi and colleagues whose motivations during the field attachment kept
me moving.

I cannot end this list without paying tribute to the entire Technical University of Mombasa Lecturers
particularly those from the department of Building and Civil Engineering for their constructive training and the
knowledge they have imparted in me throughout the two years training. May God bless you all.

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Table of Contents

DECLARATION ..........................................................................................................…ii
DEDICATION..................................................................................................................iii
ABSTRACT .....................................................................................................................iv
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS..............................................................................................v

TABLE OF CONTENTS………………………………………………………………...vi

DIFINATION OF TERMS ...........................................................................................viii

LIST OF TABLES ...........................................................................................................ix
GLOSSARY.......................................................................................................................x

CHAPTER ONE

1.1 Introduction……………….. …………………………………………………………………..1

1.2 Objectives of the Attachment...................................................................................................1
1.3 Company Profile: .....................................................................................................................1
1.31 Company Background or History.........................................................................................................1
1.32 Company Mission...................................................................................................................................1
1.33 Company Vision......................................................................................................................................1
1.34 Company Values.....................................................................................................................................1

CHAPTER TW0

2.0 ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT DURING THE ATTACHMENT PERIOD…. …2

2.1 Introduction...............................................................................................................................2
2.2 The activities were done on the following area.....................................................................2

2.2 Soft kills and Technical skills………..………………………………………………3

CHAPTER THREE

3.0 CHALLENGES, CONCLUSION & RECOMMENDATION ..............................3

3.1 Challenges Encountered during the Attachment...................................................................3
3.2 Recommendations for the Challenges Encountered..............................................................3
3.3 Conclusion.................................................................................................................................3

REFERENCES..................................................................................................................4
APPENDIX……………………………………………………………………………….5
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DEFINITION OF TERMS

HOD/ COD: Head of Department

BOQ: Bills of quantities

MSH: Material schedule

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GLOSSARY

An Industrial Attachment is a structured, credit-bearing work experience in a professional work

setting during which the student applies and acquires knowledge and skills.

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 CHAPTER ONE

1.1 Introduction

Industrial Attachment was introduced to inspire the students with practical and technical skills, as a partial
fulfilment for the award of a Certificate, Diploma or a Degree and to introduce the students into working life.

The training time allows the students to link the theoretical principles learnt in the higher learning institutions
and the real life professional and technical application. It gives the students the practical skills and the work
environment philosophy, to use their skills and principles learned in class to serve the institutions and the
society in general.

Due to the above reasons, Technical University of Mombasa has organized 12 weeks of training in any
institution of students’ choice to give every student an opportunity to apply the skills and knowledge achieved
during the course of study and to acquire new skills in managing relationship and carrying out the jobs assigned.

This is the reason why I joined RIMM GLOBAL CONSORTIUM to be trained in order to get practical skills
and cut a niche for myself in the Civil Engineering industry.

1.2 Objectives of the Attachment

The objectives of the industrial training programme are as follows:

 To provide an opportunity for students to observe real life practices and implementations for
theoretical lessons and principles.

 To provide an opportunity of students to discover, learn and familiarize with industry of their
discipline and with the organization within the industry.

 To ensure course work and training programme satisfy the expectations of the industry and
ensure the programme are relevant and up to date.

 To provide the chance for the industry to identify potential employees from among the industrial
trainees.

Therefore, this report therefore provides a summary of the activities and duties carried out, as well as
experience gained during my attachment period.

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1.3 Company Profile

This section requires you to describe the company profile such as History of the company, mission,
vision, values etc.

1.31 Company Background or History

1.32 Company Mission
1.33 Company Vision
1.34 Company Value

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 CHAPTER TWO

2.0 ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT DURING THE ATTACHMENT PERIOD

2.1 Introduction

This is an 8-12 – week programme that requires attachees’ to engage in various activities in a firm in
which he/she is attached to. These activities are:

 Technical skills

 Soft skills

2.2 Technical skills

These are activities carried out in the following areas:

a) Architectural design using archicad

 Design of 3bed bungalow, and flat.

b) Structural design using CAD such as AutoCAD and civil 3D

 Structural detailing of a stairs.

 Structural detailing of a slab
 Structural detailing of beams and columns

c) Bills of Quantities and Material schedule

d) Structural design of a basement/underground water tank.

e) Construction work

 Setting out and excavation of foundation strip and column bases.

 Reinforcement of strip and foundation bases and concreting.
 Setting and building the whole foundation up to ground floor slab.
 Setting and erecting the upper walling.

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 2.3 Soft skills

These are skills such as:

a) Logbook details and other requirements

b) Report Writing

c) Teamwork/leadership

d) Research/Innovation challenges

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 2.2.1 Architectural Design using archicad software.

2.2.1.2 Design of a 3Bed and flats

In the past years one couldn’t differentiate between an architect and an Engineer, because both of them were
engaged in designing of building, planning it, and overseeing its construction. Though up to date both
profession is interconnected, but Engineer is involved in many fields such as bridge design, transport and traffic
engineering, water and all public associated field.

There many software that are used in design this are: archicad, master series, civil 3D, etc. But we used archicad
to design buildings of all kinds since it has all the design tools hence making work easier.

But the one is supposed to draw a sketch that will satisfy client’s requirement, i.e. sizes of rooms.

Things to consider before designing any structure are:

 The size of the land the structure is to be established.

 The location and orientation of the land.
 Is it commercial or residential?
 Client’s suggestion/requirement.

When designing, it’s necessary to set your units in mm, and to customize them as well, also scale factor also
one must set also.

We designed the 3bed bungalow having considered the requirements above. Standard bedroom sizes measure
3mx2.8m but a master bedroom can be of 3.5mx3m, standard collider can be 1500mm wide or less, WC and SH
can of 1200mm wide by 2400mm.

Architectural drawing/design requires lot of creativity since it the building to be designed should be aesthetic as
possible.

In the worksheet on which the plan of the house should compromise notes, elevations, perspective, septic tank
layout, and a table of volume of water to be used per head before submitting to the county approval.

After drawing the structure, its being rendered, there are several software used to render, these are, twin motion,
and lummion.

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 2.2.1.3 OBJECTIVES

 By the end of the project I was able to be in a position to design residential and commercial buildings.
 Gained vast knowledge in computer aided design software to design structure.
 Gained knowledge of building code, and code of practice in the field of design.
 I was able to know the requirement that should be fulfilled for plan to be approved in the county by
responsible bodies.
 It enhanced my creativity.

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2.2.2.0 Structural Design/Detailing:
Structural design is a methodical investigation of the stability, strength and rigidity of structures.

The basic objective of in structural analysis and design is to produce a structure capable of resisting all applied
loads without failure during its intended life

Structural detailing is the production of detailed drawings for steel fabricators and steel erectors to use in the
construction of buildings, bridges and other structures.

There are three methods of structural design, i.e. working stress, limit state and ultimate load method of
structural design.

 Working stress- it is the stress to which material may be safely subjected in the course of ordinary use.
Can be defined as the safe stress taken within the elastic range of the material.
For brittle materials, it is taken equal to the ultimate strength divided by suitable factor of safety.
However, for materials possessing well defined yield point, it is equal to yield stress divided by a factor
of safety.
Factor of safety is an empirical number that will divide the failure stress by the allowable stress that is
capable of preventing failure. Mathematically factor of safety= failure stress/allowable stress.
 Limit state method: This method of design is also known as the load and resistance factor method of
designing structures.
The limit state method of design is based on the material used for the design.
This method ensures that the structures will not reach limit states and will not become unfit for the use
for which they are intended.
 Ultimate load method: This method is also referred to as the load factor method.

In this method, stress condition at the site of the impending collapse of the structure is analysed, and non

Linear stress-strain curves of concrete and steel are made use of.

The concept of modular ratio and its associated problems are avoided entirely in this method, hence

making this method economical than the working stress method.

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There are several softwares used to draw detailed structural drawings, these are; Autocad, master series, civil
3D, etc.

2.2.2.1. Structural detailing of a stairs:

In structural drawing we draw plan of the staircase and its section showing all the reinforcements fully detailed.

There are different types of stairs, they include: straight flight staircase, Dog leg staircase/half turn, quarter turn
stair, open well staircase and spiral staircase

But mostly designed a half turn staircase since it’s the one widely used.

Staircase helps in connecting one floor to another, hence facilitating easier movement.

It should be designed in a way that:

 Should be easily assessable.

 Should be firm and strong.
 Should not be too steep.
 Should abide with building code of practice.
 Should be designed depending on the purpose, i.e. is for residential building of public building.

Difference between a public stair and a private stair

Riser Going

Min Opt Max Min Opt Max Opt angle

Private dwelling: 100mm 175mm 190mm 220mm 250mm 350mm 40ᵒ

Public dwelling: 100mm 180mm 300mm

150mm 280mm 350mm 33ᵒ

Total effective length of a staircase= no. of steps x riser length + landing +supports.

Total effective width = width of riser/treads + 100(space between the stairs for a half turn is usually 100mm)

Width of riser= 800mm(max) for a private stair, and 1000mm for a public stair.

Rule of thumb = 2R+T=550-700.

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(This is a descriptive title of challenges encountered during the attachment, the conclusion that highlights
the skills acquired and the recommendations for overcoming the challenges described.

3.1 Challenges Encountered during the AttachmentExplain in sufficient detail a minimum of FOUR
challenges you identified for consideration.

3.2 Conclusion

Give an overall conclusion of the programme from your perspective.

Where are the gaps that need to be addressed?

What are our strongholds that we need to maintain?

Describe a minimum of FOUR skills acquired during the attachment period.

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Your conclusion should be in point from.

3.3 Recommendations for the Challenges Encountered

From the challenges cited and the conclusion achieved what do you recommend? Explain a minimum of
FOUR well-reasoned recommendations.

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C. Daniel, M. Bick, R. Egan, K. Mills, S. Walker, and S. Furukawa, “MSF R2 service architecture,” MSF
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“Introduction to Intelligent Network capability set-1,” 1993, Q.1221, “Introduction to Intelligent Network
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APENDIX

Used to indicate technical information sourced that may not fit into the report proper because of
complexity or detail. This may include such information as programs, technical specifications, and
scientific formulae.

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