Report On Site Visit.docx

COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ROYAL UNIVERSITY OF BHUTAN RINCHENDING BHUTAN

REPORT ON SITE VISIT. INTRODUCTION Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) is a residential institute for tribal people based in Bhubaneswar, India. It provides accommodation, study, career development, and healthcare to 25,000 tribal students each year at its integrated residential campus located in Bhubaneswar. Its students are educated from class 1 to post-graduate level at the KISS school and the associated KISS College for higher education. The institute was founded in 1993 by Achyuta Samanta, who also founded the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT). It began with 125 tribal students and some financial support from the ministry of tribal affairs. The institute is setting up 20 KISS branches in Odisha's tribal areas. Work has also started in Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Delhi with support from the non-profit KISS Foundation. The foundation's aim is to educate 200,000 adivasi (tribal people) by 2020. The foundation follows what it calls the "Art of Giving", a humanitarian and philanthropic concept of simple living and high thinking. There are 25,000 tribal students, from 62 poor tribal communities (13 primitive tribal groups). Most, though not all, are from Odisha. For these students, who are poor and first-generation learners, education is free, from kindergarten to postgraduation. Since schooling is residential, board, lodging and healthcare are also free. Compared to many schools, private as well as public, the KISS track record is rather good — gender ratio, retention rates, pass percentages, integration of vocational education, sports and extra-curricular activities. More specifically, the school has 19,057 students — 9,044 girls and 10,013 boys. The college has 5,994 students — 3,204 girls and 2,790 boys.

The Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) has signed a MoU with the Adani Foundation, Ahmedabad to set up a branch of the institute in the tribals-populated district of Mayurbhanj. And the design works and supervision works are carried out by Vastukar architect and project consultant.

AIM OF VISIT: Construction Supervision. WORK DETAILS: The initial phase of construction for the KISS Trival School in baripada, Mayurbhanj has started with the accumulation of raw materials and laying of foundation works for the academic and hostel blocks. Foundation trenches of around 1.5 meters (shallow foundation) have been dug and the reinforcement bars for footings (combined) were placed. Plinth beams were laid in one of the blocks.

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OBSERVATIONS AND DISCUSSION. 1. The green zones in the site has been maintained with minimal damage to environment. 2. The columns were located using ropes which act as a grid line. To ensure the accuracy ropes were stretched from one nail to another which were embedded into temporary parapets. 3. In order to maintain same level for the ground floor, the footings for columns in the lower levels were placed at a higher height. 4. Formation of honey combs were noted in the columns due to improper of vibration during concreting, less cover to reinforcement bars and use of very stiff concrete. Places like junction of beam to beam to column are the typical spots where honey combs were observed. The presence of more percentage of aggregate in concrete also prevents concrete to fill narrow spaces between the rods. 5.

Field test for cohesion of concrete (ball test) were conducted on site. A ball of about 75 mm dia was made out of the fresh concrete sample by rolling it in between the palms. It was noted that bleeding was occurring due to excessive water content. Bleeding can also occur due to big aggregate size.

6. Field test for sand was performed by taking a handful of wet sand and squeezing it in your palm, formation of cracks in sand shows that slit content is within the permissible limits. 7. The ideal nominal size for aggregate for concrete structures is 20 mm, however, aggregate size of, as big as 40 mm were also found. 8. Green ply boards of 10-12 mm thickness were used for shuttering of beams while MS boards were used for shuttering of columns. This is because columns require precision during their casting. 9. MS props were used. 10. Safety measures for workers were not taken into consideration in the