Architecture and Planning
GATE AR discipline:architecture-and-planning PYQs
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Question 46
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The initial cost of a property is INR 4,00,000 and its future life is 30 years. Considering the scrap value as 10% of its initial cost and rate of interest as 5%, the sinking fund (deposited at the end of year) for the property is INR ______. [round off to 2 decimal places]
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Reading in the staff stationed at P measured by a dumpy level is 3.5 m. The dumpy level is stationed at Q. The Reference Level (RL) at point P is 96.5 m and the height of the dumpy level is 1.25 m. The RL at point Q is ______ m. [round off to 2 decimal places]

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A circular cricket field of 180 m diameter is illuminated by four floodlight towers. The floodlight towers are equally spaced along the perimeter of the field. The height of the floodlight tower is 48 m. Using ‘Inverse Square Law’, the illumination level at the center of the field is found as 750 Lux. Each tower is consisting of 50 lamps. The rating of each lamp is 700 Watt. The efficacy of each lamp is ______ Lumen/Watt. [round off to 2 decimal places]
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A building is constructed on a plot measuring 70 m × 40 m. The utilized FAR of the building is 1.5. An energy audit found that the average monthly electricity bill of the building is INR 2,94,000. The unit cost of the electricity is INR 7. The Building Energy Index is ______ kW-hr/m²/year. [in integer]
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A simply-supported steel beam made of an I-section has a span of 8 m. The beam is carrying a uniformly distributed load of 15 kN/m. The overall depth of the beam is 450 mm. The moment of inertia of the beam section is 1800 cm⁴. The maximum bending stress in the beam will be ______ N/mm². [in integer]
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The slenderness ratio of a circular column of diameter 300 mm and effective height 3 m is ______. [in integer]
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A construction project consists of following five activities. The immediate successor activity relationship and duration of each activity are mentioned in the table below.
Activity | Immediate Successor Activity | Duration (Weeks) |
|---|---|---|
P | R | 2 |
Q | R and S | 4 |
R | T | 5 |
S | – | 6 |
T | – | 3 |
The total duration of the project is ______ weeks. [in integer]
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It is proposed to have ceramic tile flooring in a room having internal clear dimension of 1.8 m × 2.4 m. Tile sizes are 300 mm × 300 mm. The door opening is 900 mm and the door is flushed with the internal face of the wall. The height of skirting is 600 mm. The number of ceramic tiles required for internal flooring and skirting is ______. [in integer]
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In a housing project, 75% of the permissible FAR was utilised after constructing four numbers eight storey MIG towers with identical floor area of 400 sqm. If three numbers seven storey LIG towers with identical floor area are built utilising the remaining FAR, the floor area of each LIG tower is ______ sqm. [round off to 2 decimal places]
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Using the following values of thermal conductance, surface conductance and thermal resistance, the U value across the given wall cross-section is ______ W/m² °C. [round off to 2 decimal places]

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