Purpose Single Carriageway Highway - Civil Engineering Assignment

Purpose Single Carriageway Highway

• To promote independent, creative and strategic thinking.
• To provide deeper insights into the conceptual and strategic nature of the design process, relevant to highway design and construction and professional practice.
• To be able to appraise a highway engineering brief in a professional manner and offer technical solutions to the problems identified within the brief.
• Demonstrate analytical, experimental and interpretative skills with respect to highway design and maintenance.
• Write a formal report including the use of simple annotated sketches and scale drawings.
• Tackle and solve calculations related to drainage design, alignments (horizontal and vertical) and pavement design. To gain knowledge of the: Types of pavements and their structural behavior. Principles and practices of pavement construction techniques. Materials and specification. Empirical methods of pavement design
• Principles and practice of bridge construction, maintenance, and design.