PEC EPE Part-I case studies
PEC EPE Part-I · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The Engineering Practice Examination (EPE) is administered by the Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC), the statutory body constituted under the PEC Act 1976 (V of 1976) and amended up to 1st December 2016 to regulate the engineering profession in Pakistan. PEC describes Continuing Professional Development, under which the EPE sits, as a mandatory process that ensures engineers continuously update their knowledge and skills throughout their careers. The PEC EPE Part-I case studies are 5 cases and about 4,230 words.
1The Interim Certificate and the Day-Seven Strike
You are a graduate structural engineer with a mid-sized consultancy in Lahore, working as site engineer for a six-storey commercial building in Johar Town. The third-floor slab was cast nine days ago with M30 ready-mix concrete.
816 words, about 4 min2Transformer Loading with a Contractor's Arithmetic
A housing society in Multan operates a single 500 kVA, 11 kV/400 V ONAN distribution transformer serving 96 apartments and a small commercial block. In June, with ambient temperature peaking at 47 degrees Celsius, the top-oil alarm logged 96 degrees Celsius and the transformer twice tripped on the winding-temperature trip at 105 degrees Celsius.
836 words, about 4 min3One Staircase, Five Office Floors
A developer in Karachi submits a six-storey building for approval: ground-floor retail plus five office floors, each 1,800 square metres gross. Your firm is engaged to review life safety before the drawings go to the provincial building control authority.
851 words, about 4 min4Report on a Leaning Retaining Wall
A four-and-a-half metre high cantilever retaining wall forms the boundary between a plot in Islamabad and the adjacent street. Nine months after completion the wall has leaned about 25 mm at the top and shows three diagonal cracks on the street face, the widest about 1.5 mm, running upward from the base of the stem.
838 words, about 4 min5Tannery Expansion Without a Consent
A leather-finishing unit near Kasur processes about 25 tonnes of hides per day and discharges roughly 800 cubic metres per day of process wastewater through a single outfall into an unlined agricultural drain. Last month's sampling by the environmental protection agency laboratory recorded pH 10.4, COD 950 mg/L, BOD5 380 mg/L, total suspended solids 620 mg/L, total chromium 4.6 mg/L and sulphide 45 mg/L.
889 words, about 4 min