Discussion

The project has gone through different stages in order to reach its goal of analyzing and
designing the building.

During the preparation of the architectural drawing, some of the BS codes such as
B.S6465 and BS 9999-2008 were followed, which serve the requirements of architecture
aspect and safety side.

After completing the preparation of the architectural drawing, the structural drawing was
began. The slab, beam and column arrangement were arranged according to the minimum
and maximum spacing that can be given between one element and other. Since the
building was planned to be divided by gypsum partition the spacing between each
columns was chosen to be as wide as enough.

In this project the analysis and design of the different elements of the structure was
calculated manually and by using software programs like (Excel Sheet and Robot
Structural Analysis Professional 2018).

The manual calculation were done according to the BS code (BS8110 – 1997). One
sample of two-way slab was desgin first manually,then by Excel Sheet. The results of the
manual and Excel Sheet was compared and it’s been same. Excel Sheet was used to solve
for the rest if the slabs.

After that, one line of beams have taken. Moment distribution method was used for
manual calculation of continuous beams. At same time Robot Structural Analysis was
used to analyze and design the same line of beams. The result was found quite same.
Robot Structural Analysis was used to design all beams of the structure.

In addition, one sample of column and foundation was calculated manually and then by
Robot Structural Analyze. All column was designed by Robot Structural Analyze,
however, foundation load and reaction were taken from the Robot Structural Analysis,
and then all the foundation was design by Excel Sheet.