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The document contains 30 basic questions for civil engineering interns regarding construction practices at a company. The questions cover topics such as the company's history, quality standards, materials testing procedures, concrete mix designs, reinforcement practices, curing processes, and protocols for resolving discrepancies between design drawings.

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Basic Question For Intern Students - 2

The document contains 30 basic questions for civil engineering interns regarding construction practices at a company. The questions cover topics such as the company's history, quality standards, materials testing procedures, concrete mix designs, reinforcement practices, curing processes, and protocols for resolving discrepancies between design drawings.

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Basic Questions For Internship Civil Engineering Students

1- When the company was established??


2- What is the main product and service given by your company??
3- What is the level (ደረጃ) of the company according to Ethiopian Quality assurance
agency?
4- Can you show us the work flow chart of the company as well as Site work flow
chart??
5- Do you as a company check the structural design, whether it is safe or not, before
starting the construction?
6- Who is responsible of checking these designs?
7- What types of construction material do you often use??
8- How do you test these construction materials?
9- What tests do you usually perform?
10- If yes, you have any test result documents?
11- How do you interpret these test results?
12- How do you store construction materials?? And how do you determine the shelf life
of different construction materials?? What is the shelf life of cement in the store??
 Try to see how they store the construction materials are stored and learn!!
 Usually, cement materials are stored at some elevated system prepared for it,
how do we determine this minimum elevation of the floor on which these
cement materials are stored?
13- Different grades of concrete are prepared by different proportioning of the sand,
cement, aggregate and water, how do you prepare these different proportions in you
site??
14- What type of batching do you use in this site?
a) Batching by volume? or,
b) Batching by weight?
15- Why do you select this type of batching?
16- What does it mean 1:2:3 in the concrete work? May you tell us the proportion of
cement: sand: aggregate ratio of C-30, C-25, C-20, C-5 grades of concrete?
17- Why the ground floor slab is isolated from the grade beam when casting them?
18- It is known that, generally, the ground floor slabs don’t support any flexural stress, so
what is the use of the reinforcements in the ground floor slab?
19- Why do we compact the filled soil before the ground floor is casted, and how do you
ensure that the compaction is sufficient?
20- When casting beams, generally, whenever we want to stop the casting of the beam, it
is not recommended to stop the casting around the mid span, WHY??? And where are
we supposed to stop?? WHY? What about the columns?? WHY??
21- What is the cause of segregation and honey-combing of concrete? And how do you
prevent each of them?
22- What is the maximum height of releasing the concrete mix when casting the
columns to prevent segregation of the concrete?
23- What is the difference between expansion joint and movement joint? And why do
we provide them in RC structures?

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Basic Questions For Internship Civil Engineering Students

24- What is the lap length of the reinforcement in your site?? Is the lap length provided
in your site scientific or just from experience?
25- Around where are we prohibited to make these laps of rebar(reinforcements) ?
26- What is the use of development length in the RC elements?
27- What is the negative reinforcement and positive reinforcements? Can you show us on
the site?
28- What the curing period of the foundation before it is refilled with the soil? What about
the other RC elements?
29- What is the function of lean concrete? And what is the weight of the cement in it?
30- If there is a mismatch between the architectural drawing and the structural drawings,
how do you decide to select which one to apply on the site?? In what manners do you
select the architectural drawing?

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