Plumbing design & drafting

In this course, we aim at teaching students on how to carry out a complete Plumbing design & drafting for residential & commercial buildings. You will get to design and size water supply systems and drainage layout systems. You will learn how to use AutoCAD to draft out your designs and represent your pipe sizes and so on.

Other details:

The course can be attended by:

  • Engineering Graduates (Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical, Met & Materials).
  • Graduates of Polytechnics in the Engineering field (ND & HND).Individuals that are graduates of other disciplines but with a minimum of two (2) years experience as an Engineer.

All classes are to be delivered via online platform using popular video meeting software such as Zoom, Teamviewer or Teams.

  • Weekday (Mon - Friday): N180,000
  • Weekend (Saturday & Sunday): N200,000

 

Course Outline

1.0. Introduction

1.1. Plumbing fixtures and types

1.2. Types of Plumbing systems

1.3. Plumbing symbols and meanings

1.4. Types of Water supply systems

2.1. Different types of Water storage systems

2.2. Storage tank sizing using People's method.

2.3. Storage tank sizing using Fixture method.

3.1. Sizing using Thumb rule

3.2. Sizing using Water Supply Fixture Unit (WSFU) method.

3.3. Applying the WSFU method to a sample project for both Cold and Hot water pipe sizing.

4.1. Drainage sizing using Drainage Fixture Unit (DFU).

4.2. Applying DFU method to a sample project.

5.1. Pump sizing using GPM method

5.2. Sizing a Pump in a sample project.

1.1. Garden water design

1.2. Sizing the Garden water system for a sample project.