KYADONDO TECHNICAL INSTITUTE
P.O.BOX 5633
DEPARTMENT OF TECHNICAL STUDIES AND CIVIL ENGINEERING
END OF SEMESTER ONE, YEAR ONE INDUSTRIAL TRAINING REPORT
BY
NATOLO JOHN
INDEXNO: UBT416/2022/T/C/M/366
AT
STEEL YARD CONTRACTORS COMPANY LIMITED
AN INDUSTRIAL TRAINING CARRIED OUT AT KYADONDO TECHNICAL INSTITUTE A
PROJECT SUBMITTED TO UGANDA BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL EXAMINATIONS
BOARD AS PARTIAL FULLFILMENT IN THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF A
NATIONAL DIPLOMA IN CIVIL ENGINEERING
JULY-AUGUST 2022
Field supervisor
Name……………………….
Signature……………………….date……………………….
DECLARATION
I NATOLO JOHN declare that the work submitted in this report is original and that has never
been submitted in any institution for any academic award.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I thank the following for their immeasurable guidance, direction and assistance that they offered
to me in the due course of the training.
Am grateful to my fellow students of building and construction with whom I discussed and gave
me more of the ideas on how to do certain things as far as construction of building is concerned
during our industrial training.
Am thankful to Engineer SIMON under whom I was working for his time offered to me as he
discuss for many questions I asked him.
My grate appreciation also goes to Engineer KUTOSI DERICK who tirelessly signed our log
books every day
My grate appreciation also goes to the staff and the entire management of STEEL YARD
CONTRACTORS LIMITED for allowing me to do my training from their company.
ABSTRACT
Am very interested in knowing how to use steel columns and T-section steel bars to make up a
frame for the building and after identifying that STEEL YARD CONTRACTORS COMPANY
LIMITED uses the same material to make up building frames which is the new rising and
dominating construction technology for building houses, I placed my letter in their company and
to my luck and prayer I was given space when they sent my acceptance letter to my school. The
internship was concentrated on construction of a two floor staled residential building.
Before I went for industrial trainning I would imagine how these metals are assembled to end up
with a strong and firm building and I would ask the teacher and he explains to me how they even
fix timbers in the T-section steel bars but I wouldn’t become convinced until I participated in
doing it practically during industrial training.
During this training, many queries in my mind were answered because some of these
queries I got their answers my self as I did practically many tasks to find out on my own.
The objectives of the training was to find out and to learn all that transpires throughout
the construction of a house the challenges faced and how to solve such challenges.
There is still a lot to discover and other methods of building can me improved and
innovation is still required.
This has given me much motivation and hope in taking a career in civil engineering.
DEDICATION
Am dedicating this book to my parents Mrs. NASAGA AGNES and Mr. NATOLO GEORGE
for moral and financial support they offered to me in the process of making this industrial
training report book.
I am also dedicating this book to the entire community of civil Engineering at KYADONDO
TECHNICAL INSTITUTE for being corporative at any time of need
PREFACE
About industrial training
Industrial training is a period that the college accounts their students to practice what they
studied for the academic year into practice. Students are allowed to go into companies, factories
and workshops at the end of a year of study to convert theoretical skills gained into real practice.
This equips the students with skills and knowledge on how to operate different machines, how to
use different tools, equipment and exposure to practical world.
I therefore thank Uganda Business and Technical Examinations Board (UBTEB) for giving us
this opportunity of having industrial training in their syllabus.
APROVAL
This is to certify that ………………………… has done his industrial training under my
supervision
Name…………………..
Signature……………………Date………….
Supervisor
TABLE OF CONTENT
CHAPTER ONE
1.1 INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….i
CHAPTER TWO
2.1 CONSTRUCTION OF TWO FLOOR FLAT RESIDENTIAL HOUSE……………………………………………………………ii
2.2 MERITS OF CONSTRUCTING A HOUSE…………………………………………………………………………………………….iii
2.3 QUANTITIES OF BILLS………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………iv
2.5 EQUIPMENTS USED…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………vi
2.6 MERITS AND DEMERITS OF USING HOLLOW BLOCKS……………………………………………………………………….vii
CHAPTER THREE
3.1 SITE PREPARATION………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….viii
3.2 ESTABLISHMENT OF PROFILE BOARDS……………………………………………………………………………………………viiii
3.3 SETTING OUT………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….X
CHAPTER FOUR
4.1 SETTING OF BASES FOR COLOMNS………………………………………………………………………………………………..xi
4.2 PLINTH WALL…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………xii
4.3 BACK FILLING…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………xiii
4.4 HARD CORE……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………xvi
4.5 BLIND LAYER………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….xvii
4.6 TERMITE TREAT…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….xviii
4.7 FLOOR PREPARATION……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………xviiii
4.8 SITE CONCRETE……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..xx
4.9 CURING………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….xxi
CHAPTER FIVE
5.1 LESSIONS LEARNT……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….xxii
5.2 SKILLS OBTAINED……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….xxiii
5.3 CHALLENGES…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….xxvi
5.4 SOLUTIONS………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………xxvii
5.5 PRECAUTIONS AND SAFETY…………………………………………………………………………………………………….xxviii
CHAPTER SIX
6.1 RECCOMANDATION………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..xxviiii
6.2 CONCLUTION………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….xxx
6.3 APENDEX………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..xxxi
1.0 CHAPTER ONE
1.1INTRODUCTION
As a partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of National Diploma in Civil engineering the
student must at least undergo two months of industrial training in any industry, company, factory or
workshop. The industrial training begins from 16th 2022 to 1st July 2022. All students of National Diploma
in Civil Engineering of UBTEB have executed the system which is giving the entire UBTEB students who
are doing the industrial training two times credit.
Industrial Training is an Industrial based learning experience that gives students hands on experience of
practical work they are most likely to encounter in the field after their graduation from College. More
so, Industrial Training gives a “work experience” to students so that they can prepare in advance on how
to handle some of those challenges they are likely to meet in the field since most of the challenges
won’t be new to them.Because they will have been encountered them already during the Industrial
Training.
During this period, students are posted to different industries ranging from small scale to big scale
where they undertake industrial training and well-structured training that poses a challenge to them for
better skills. Being aware of the industrial training importance, the trainee intended to acquire skills in
different stages of construction of a house from STEEL YARD CONTRACTORS COMPANY LIMITED.
1.2 Industrial Training objective
Industrial Training plays major role is equipping trainees with practical and innovation skills as far as civil
engineering is concerned in daily life. The following are objectives that are expected to be achieved
during industrial training
1.3 Objectives of the industrial training
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To train the student to acquire practical and innovation skills in the field of work.
To enable the trainees, understand how organization and companies operate.
To enable the student to explore employment opportunities.
To fulfill the program of government of training with production which will help the students to
be self employed.
1.4 Importance of industrial training to students
The main important of industrial training is to expose the students to the field of work within an
industrial environment before they are fully employed. It also helps in equipping trainees with necessary
practical skills, moral ways of working with others, time management, relating the theoretical
knowledge with real practical in the field.
2.0 CHAPTER TWO
2.1 CONSTRUCTION OF TWO FLOOR FLAT RESIDENTIAL HOUSE
Construction is the art of establishing a structure. It is the process of putting up a structure like a
building, road, airport, dams
It involves different stages and these are:
Identification of the site
These is where the client develops an idea to construct a structure and he looks for the suitable place
where the structure will be established called a site
Planning
This involves usage of different approaches in presence of experts to come up with the appearance of
the structure, quantity of material to be used, the quantity of labour that will be required through
professionals like architect quantity surveyor and a contractor. It also involves site drawings like ground
floor plan, first floor plan
Preparation of site drawings
This involves drawing of location maps, house plans, architectural drawings, cross sections and
longitudinal sections, roof plan
Documentation
This involves collection of documents from local authorities, verification note for the plan, contract
documents
Commencement of work
This involves levelling where applicable, setting out up to the conclusion of the job
2.2 Advantages of construction of a house
To the client
 To satisfy his desires
 It is a spending unit since somepeople show off their riches by constructing a house
 To provide shelter
To the community
 Provision of employment opportunities to people hence improving their standards of living
 Development of the area for example some road are constructed purposely for bringing
material to the site but ends up becoming a public road
2.3 PROCEDURES TAKEN WHILE CONSTRUCTING A HOUSE
Site surveying
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This involves visiting the site before commencement of work
2.3 Preparation bill of quantities
This involves totaling all the amounts of money that Will be for the whole project
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Site clearance
Site stripping
Setting out
Foundation excavation
Excavation of footings for columns
Setting of bases for columns
Foundation concreting
Plinth walling
Back filling
Compaction
Hardcore
Blinding
Termite treatment
Laying of DPC
Laying BRC
Casting of slab
Levelling
Curing
Setting out block work
Partitioning of the house into walls and measuring of dimensions for doors
Construction of walls
Dimensioning for windows
Construction up to beam level
Formwork for beams and lintels
Casting of concrete for beams and lintels
Construction of the over beam
Roofing
Shuttering
Making finishes
2.4 MATERIALS USED
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Cement
Clay bricks
Hollow blocks
I-section Metallic columns
T-section steel bars
4*4” timbers
Wire mesh
Hardcore
Steel bars
BRC
Water
2.6 TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT WITH THEIR RESPECTIVE USES
Setting out tools
TOOL USES
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Pick axe
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For digging the foundation trench
For driving pegs into the ground
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For driving nails into wood and timber
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Shovel
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For scooping sand
For mixing mortar
For digging the foundation trench
For mixing mortar
For mixing sand and cement
For scooping soil during back filling
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For scooping mortar
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For ensuring that the wall is upright
For ensuring 90degrees at the corners
For ensuring that the wall is straight
For determining and comparing the levels by using
water level system
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Trowel
Plumb bob
Builder’s square
Builder’s line
Horse pipe
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Revolving drum
Poker/vibrator
2.6 ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF USING HOLLOW BLOCKS FOR BUILDING A HOUSE
Advantages
They are cost effective in relation to labour costs
They are time saving
They produce an upright wall when built with care because they have a plumbed surface
They are time saving because walls are raised with in short time
Disadvantages
They are heavy to carry hence hectic to work with
They have sharp edges which cut fingers hence being not friendly to users
They are expensive to buy hence not being affordable to middle income earners
3.0 CHAPTER THREE
3.1 Site preparation
Levelling
The site was sloppy and the client was advised to hire a Bulldozer to level the site
3.2 Establishment of profile boards
We hit pegs 2.5m apart starting from the corners of the line along which the building was to pass giving
allowance of 1m from where the foundation was going to pass both along the length and the width. The
pegs were surrounding the whole length and width
We hit the eucalyptus profile boards on the hit pegs to enclose the whole space that will be occupied by
the house
3.3 Setting out
We hit a nail on the profile board along width one meter fro the one along length
We hit another nail on the opposite profile board leaving the same distance from the one along length
We tied a string moving along the length on the hit nail and we tightly stretched it to establish a baseline
Atone end, we hit a nail on the profile board along the length leaving a distance of one meter from the
one along the width and then we tied another string
We then used a builder’s square to establish an angle of 90 at one end whereby one of my colleagues
went to the opposite end with a string tied on the nail and I remained at the meeting point of the strings
as I ensure the right angle through commanding my colleagues to move the string in or out until all the
strings were flushing with the edges of the right angle builder’s square under the supervision of Engineer
Mr.OJAMBO
We repeated the same thing on another side of the house to get another right angle on the other side of
the house by first measuring the length of the house
We measured the width of the house on the profile board along with and we hit other nails on opposite
sides and we tied a string on them to make up a rectangle
4.0 CHAPTERT FOUR
4.1 Setting of bases for columns
We casted grade 20 concrete in the pad foundation of thickness 4”
We then placed the strings along where the walls will pass both along the length and the width
We then placed welded bases and we plumbed them to ensure their verticality. We then added
concrete to the pad foundation until it was at the level of the trench for the pad foundation
We did the same for all I-section columns with T-section bases untilall column bases were set up
We then casted foundation concrete for the whole foundation
We tied a wire mesh on the vertical part of the column bases for all bases to allow bondage with mortar
4.2 Plinth walling
Using well burnt clay bricks, we built a plinth wall header bond with a mix of mortar of 1:4 cement to
sand respectively while putting hoop iron wall pass for every two courses
4.3 Back filling
We filled murram to almost half of the foundation depthas the first layer and we compacted using a
jumper compactor machine
We filled the second layer and we compacted again leaving one course of the plinth wall
4.4 Hardcore
We filled hard core on top of murram of thickness 6” for the whole foundation and we compacted using
a hammer
4.5 Blinding layer
We blinded using sand to provide favorable surface for the DPM
4.6 Termite treatment
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We mixed termite treatment chemical in water and we sprayed it on the whole surface over site
4.7 Floor preparation for over site concrete
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We then laid a black polythene DPM on the whole surface
We then unrolled BRC Gauge 98 all over the surface of the site
We then put spacers and we also tied the BRC on each other to make it firm
The plumbers first placed the pipes
4.8 Over site concrete
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4.9 Curing
The following morning we poured sand over the surface of the concrete
We then poured water on the surface to prevent effects of direct sunlight
5.0 CHAPTER FIVE
5.1 LESSONS LEARNT
 These metals are used to construct a house so I learnt how to construct such houses using steel
columns and T-section steel bars
 We were very many people at the site and so olearnt how todeal with many people at the site
 I learnt how to relate with other people at the site
 I alsolearnt how to interprete a house plan from the field
 I learnt how to relate theory from school with practical work in the field and to experience site
life of boarding at the site.
 I learnt how to relate with others at the site, I learnt how site people behave hence
understanding how I can take them in case am the one running the site
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 I learnt how to set up a building practically and I learnt how to build at different stages of
construction as far as building a house is concerned.
5.2 Skills obtained
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I achieved a skill of interpreting the plan
I obtained a skill of plumbing columns bases and columns at large
I learnt how to fix timbers in T-section steel bars in preparation of floors
I obtained a skill of using blocks on speed when they are accurate
I obtained a skill of estimating work done by one mason per day because I frequently saw their
work mine inclusive
 I obtained a skill of how to space timbers while making floor
5.3 Challenges faced
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I faced a challenge of tough working conditions set by the client's representative who used to
doubt our capacity until we proved to him that we can also do something without wastage of
material
I faced a challenge of sharp objects like BRC, nails, binding wires which would injure me while
working with them
I faced a challenge of strict supervision by Eng.Mr.Hamza who used not to allow me to go to buy
breakfast
I faced a challenge of cement wearing my skin
I faced a challenge of fatigue due to working with out any resting time for all the time I spent in
industrial training
5.4 Solutions to the challenges
I used gloves to prevent cement from wearing my hands
I requested for shifting from the current site to another one under the same company whose
supervisors were friendly and cooperative with me and who allowed me to freely use the
material as I do my hand on training
I requested the foreman to allow me to always be free on Sundays and to reduce fatigue as it
would be resting day
5.5 Safety precautions taken
 I put on helmet to protect me from falling debris most especially in times when work was
moving on both on down and upper floors
 I put on safety shoes to protect me from sharp objects injuring my legs like nails, BRC remains,
sharp wood
 I put on gloves to protect my fingers from effects of cement and blocks like wearing
 I would ensure that all sharp objects are not scattered to prevent accidents like cuts
6.0 CHAPTER SIX
6.1 Recommendations
 I recommend the introduction of industrial training at the end of every semester because it will
equip enough skill in students as for me I can now manage to do many things at the like
brick/block laying, plumbing columns, fixing timbers in T-section steel, fixing wireless, laying BRC
so if there is enough time givento me I can get more skills beyond that
 I also recommend the school administration to always introduce students to the companies
where they are to do their internship from to attract the attention of the engineers and foremen
to help them accordingly
 I also recommend regular visits andsupervision by lecturers to avail themselves to students for
some questions because most students take their teachers to be knowing much than anyone
else and so if a question is answered by a teacher, it is understood more by the students
6.2 Conclusion
I conclude by thanking the administration of steel yard contractors limited who allowed me to do my
training from their company, cooperative to me and who have been helpful to me at anytime of need
The training was so beneficial to me because it has grown in me a fruit tree which I will harvest through
out my life because a skill is installed in someone and at no circumstance can it be removed from
someone holding it.
The training has helped me to gain friends from different parts of the country for example the Basamia
from Busia and basoga which shows that I really enjoyed the training and it yielded only long term fruits
and I will live to rememberEng.Mr. Simon for his kind heart and love for human race
6.3 Appendix
6.4 Reference
ENGINEER MR. WAFULA SIM0N
ENGINEER MR. OJAMBO
ENGINEER MR. GALIWANGO HAMZA
ENGINEER MISS. NAHURRA SHEILLAH
ALL FROM
STEEL YARD CONTRACTORS COMPANY LIMITED
6.5 Short forms and symbols used
DPC- dumb proof course
APC-anti proof course
DPM- dump proof membrane
“ -inches
Mm – millimeters
APC-Ant Proof Course