# Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering

**Source**: https://engineering.calendar.utoronto.ca/course/civ523h1
**Parent**: https://engineering.calendar.utoronto.ca/section/Civil-Engineering

Fixed Credit Value

0.50

Hours

38.4L/12.8T

This course is built around a transportation project that contains all the essential geotechnical investigation and design elements and illustrates how they all come together on a project. The students will be taken through the entire design process from project initiation to construction. In essence, the project will include a bridge over a river with some property constraints requiring the use of a retaining wall as well as deep and shallow foundations and some groundwater control. The highway will require a soil cut. One section crosses a low-lying swampy area that will require embankment construction over deep soft soils. A short tunnel section is planned beneath a railway that cannot be taken out of service. A pavement design will be required along the entire route as well as materials testing and construction monitoring.

Prerequisite

; equivalent or permission of instructor

Total AUs

42.7 (Fall), 42.7 (Winter), 85.4 (Full Year)

Program Tags

[AECIVBASC: Winter Session - Year 4](/undergraduate-program-civil-engineering-aecivbasc)

[AELMEBASC: Winter Session – Year 4](/lassonde-mineral-engineering-program-aelmebasc)