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Introduction to building structural design concepts, principles and techniques, concepts and unit of measurements, simple stress systems such as direct stress (tensile and compressive), factor of safety, mechanical testing of materials, behaviours of steel under load, Complex stress systems such as oblique stress in two and three dimensions, Principal planes, Mohr’s circles and Strain cycle; concept of failure; theory of pure bending, shear stress in beams, torsion of circular shafts, theory of plasticity. BUD 251: Computer Application in Building Construction (2units C: LH 15; PH 45) Learning Outcomes At the end of the course, the students should be able to: 1. identify various software programmes applied in building; and 2. apply various software programmes in building process. Course Contents History of computer and information technology developments; software in use in the construction industry –for design (AutoCAD, Revit); costing (WinQs) and project planning (Microsoft Project/Primavera); Microsoft Project/Primavera; Spread sheets. Students are expected to familiarize themselves with the use of the Computer Aided Design software and any of the project planning software such as Microsoft Project or Primavera.

Construction, fabrication and finishing of steel, aluminium copper and its alloys. Planishing, raising, hollowing and general beaten metal work.

Forge work. Tool-making. Drawing down. Metal construction and assembly scroll work.

Advance studio exercises in Ferrous and non-Ferrous metals. Studio assignments focus on oxyacetylene/ arc welding processes of metal joinery; execution of miniature projects like gates, metal furniture, and the likes, advance machine work; turning, boring parting off, thread cutting, engraving and finishing of ferrous metal works; chemical treatment of wrought iron works.

Textile processes from fiber to fabrics. Fiber classifications by their structures and properties and processes of yarn production as well as fabric construction; Fiber tests for identification, determination of fiber size and composition in fabric samples and fabric reactions. Principles and techniques in textile design; design format; development of design elements and techniques of colour /motif manipulation. Technical information on fabric decoration processes, materials and techniques such as screen printing, photographic transfer and block printing.

Basic concept of mining and underground surveying techniques. Design of underground survey networks. Mine orientation, mechanical and optical shaft plumbing gyroscopic methods, laser and accuracies obtainable. Operation, sources of errors and accuracy obtainable for gyro- theodolite. Volume determination, erosion problems and crustal movements. Survey for subsidence and stability of large structures.

The course investigates non-conventional materials for composition with or without pigments and how they relate to picture making. Instructions shall include the structure, content, and construction of images in the two-dimensional plane. Students shall be encouraged to chart personal styles drawn from the genre’s history as an exploratory course.

Introduction to the concepts of Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement. Monitoring: the monitoring of activities or agents that have to meet environmental standards: Provisions for the verification of compliance with standards; The need to determine accurately and rapidly extent of compliance by agents, the need for a coordinated monitoring process to reduce the overall costs of regulation and improve outcomes. Inspection: Importance, methods, processes. The place of inspection in achieving the purpose of environmental standards, and how to undertake effective inspection. Enforcement: strength and credibility behind the policy for greater effectiveness. Strength derives from both the likelihood of inspection and the level of fines. Emphasis in this component should be on: (i) the need for enforcement in environmental standards, and (ii) how best to undertake enforcement, usually “appropriate penalties” arising from inspection in the field.

This course examines the history and institutional origins and development of the museum institution, the gallery, and their global and local perspectives. The structure and organogram of the museum institution and their interrelationships. The course also situates vital aspects of the museum institution such as collections and acquisitions, conservation and documentation, mechanics of display and space rhetoric, and reporting on the object of culture. Visits to museums and exhibitions, an integral part of this course, will enable students to acquire relevant knowledge that will inform their critique of museums’ roles, functions, and management in general. A mandatory review of at least one exhibition is an integral aspect of the course.

Income tax: nature and incident. Allowances on deductions. Assessment of owners and occupiers of landed property. Taxation of capital estate duty. Capital transfer tax. Elementary principles of national finance with particular reference to central and local government finance. The caucus and principles of taxation. Taxation distinguished from other land burdens. Methods of taxation proprietary interests in land. Income tax. Inheritance tax. Local rates and other statutory charges. National taxation policies relating to land. Organization and administration of rating. Valuation list and preparation objections; proposal and appeals. Assessment of property. Occupation and hereditament. Tone of list; gross value; net annual value; rateable value. Rebus sic stantibus. Rating valuation practice. Hypothetical tenant. Valuation assumptions. Vacant and to let exemptions. Adjustment of gross value to net annual value. Alterations of the valuation list. 400 Level Estate Management