Building Materials

Building Materials


Building materials is an quiet interesting yet complicated subject for me. We are taught by Puan Hasmanira Mokhtar and Mr. Teh to understand the physical and chemical properties of a wide range of building materials. The topics that my lecturers have covered are concrete, metal, rubber, ceramic, paint, bricks, stones, plastic, glass and timber. Now, I am able to explain the use, physical and chemical properties of the various types of building materials that had been covered by my lecturers. Besides that, I am able to summarise the effect of building materials on construction and structural qualities. More than that, I also able to analyse problems associated with different materials used. During this module, both of my lecturers have gave us group assignment. The assignment that my group has chosen are about rubber and metal, which the assignment about rubber was given by Puan Hasmanira and the assignment about metal was given by Mr. Teh. We also do have a presentation after we finished our assignment about plastic. Puan Hasmanira has organised a factory visit for us that took us 3 days 2 nights at Johor and Melacca. The purpose of the factory visit is we need to visit 3 factories in order to let us understand the process of manufacturing glass, metal door frame and metal roofing. We have gained a lot of knowledge during the factory visit and we also explored jonker street in Melacca to find out the related building materials that have been applied in there. The factory visit not only brought us a lot of fun but we also gained a lot of knowledge which will help us in this subject.

Figure above shows some laminated glasses that have been captured during our factory visit.

Figure above shows some metal roofing that have been captured during our factory visit.

Figure above shows the name of factory that we had visit.

Figure above shows some bullet proof glasses that have been captured during our factory visit.

Figure above shows a water jet.

Figure above shows some mix design laminated glass.

Our lecturer, Puan Hasmanira was giving some brief about our factory visit.