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General Engineering ECCC Questions and
Answers (Expert Solutions)
Q: 1. What are the three construction standards for force protection? ANS 🗹🗹: a.
Organic, initial, temporary
Q: 1. What are the three force protection threat levels? ANS 🗹🗹: a. Level I (agents,
terrorists, civil disturbances) Level II (small tactical units, guerillas), Level III (large
conventional force)
Q: 1. What are the priorities of effort for force protection? ANS 🗹🗹: a. Establish
perimeters and standoff; establish access control points (ACPs and ECPs); enhance
personnel protection
Q: 1. True or False: Engineer Reconnaissance is one of the five forms of reconnaissance.
ANS 🗹🗹: a. False: Engineer Recon refers to specialized skills that can be brought to
bear on any of the forms of tactical reconnaissance.
Q: Name four USACE contingency response elements from smallest to largest. ANS 🗹🗹:
FEST-A, Recon Team, ADVON, Contingency Engineer District
Q: What is the expected lifespan for a basecamp built to organic, initial, temporary, and
semi-permanent standard? ANS 🗹🗹: a. Organic: 90 days or less Initial: 6 months or less
Temporary: 5 years or less Semipermanent: 2-10 years
Q: What are the 4 principles of basecamp planning? ANS 🗹🗹: Scalability,
Standardization, Sustainability, Survivability
Q: What are the steps to the basecamp development planning process? ANS 🗹🗹:
Initiate preliminary planning, Location selection, Land Use Planning, Facility
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Requirements Development, General Site Planning, Design Guide Phasing &
Construction, Maintenance & updates, Cleanup/Closure/Archive
Q: What are the steps to the construction project phasing model? ANS 🗹🗹:
Construction Project Phasing Model: the subphases of the design guide, programming,
and construction step of BCDPP. Initial project planning, preliminary construction
planning, detailed project planning, final planning and project turnover, project
execution and monitoring, and final project transfer and closeout.
Q: When would you use the BCDPP vs the master planning steps? ANS 🗹🗹: Master
planning steps are used for bases on US soil, base camp development planning process
(BCDPP) is for in-theatre construction.
Q: What are the components of concrete? ANS 🗹🗹: Water, Portland Cement, aggregate,
admixtures, and air
Q: True or false: The purpose of adding rebar is to make concrete stronger under
compression. ANS 🗹🗹: False, concrete is strong under compression, rebar helps make
concrete stronger under tension.
Q: The chemical reaction between Portland cement and water is known as ____________.
ANS 🗹🗹: Hydration
Q: What are the two types of reinforcement for concrete? ANS 🗹🗹: Structural Steel
(rebar): designed to reinforce concrete against forces from static and dynamic loads.
Temperature and shrinkage steel (wire mesh): designed to prevent surface cracks as
the concrete dries and endures temperature changes.
Q: ___ gallons of water should be added for every 1 50lb sack of cement ANS 🗹🗹: 8
gallons
Q: Which one of the following characteristics of concrete INCREASES as water is added?
Strength, durability, water tightness, or workability ANS 🗹🗹: Workability. All of the
others decrease as water is added.
Q: You are building a concrete pad that heavy vehicles will enter onto from a dirt road.
How much should you thicken the edge? What is the ratio you use for a length of taper
General Engineering ECCC Questions and
Answers (Expert Solutions)
Q: 1. What are the three construction standards for force protection? ANS 🗹🗹: a.
Organic, initial, temporary
Q: 1. What are the three force protection threat levels? ANS 🗹🗹: a. Level I (agents,
terrorists, civil disturbances) Level II (small tactical units, guerillas), Level III (large
conventional force)
Q: 1. What are the priorities of effort for force protection? ANS 🗹🗹: a. Establish
perimeters and standoff; establish access control points (ACPs and ECPs); enhance
personnel protection
Q: 1. True or False: Engineer Reconnaissance is one of the five forms of reconnaissance.
ANS 🗹🗹: a. False: Engineer Recon refers to specialized skills that can be brought to
bear on any of the forms of tactical reconnaissance.
Q: Name four USACE contingency response elements from smallest to largest. ANS 🗹🗹:
FEST-A, Recon Team, ADVON, Contingency Engineer District
Q: What is the expected lifespan for a basecamp built to organic, initial, temporary, and
semi-permanent standard? ANS 🗹🗹: a. Organic: 90 days or less Initial: 6 months or less
Temporary: 5 years or less Semipermanent: 2-10 years
Q: What are the 4 principles of basecamp planning? ANS 🗹🗹: Scalability,
Standardization, Sustainability, Survivability
Q: What are the steps to the basecamp development planning process? ANS 🗹🗹:
Initiate preliminary planning, Location selection, Land Use Planning, Facility
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Requirements Development, General Site Planning, Design Guide Phasing &
Construction, Maintenance & updates, Cleanup/Closure/Archive
Q: What are the steps to the construction project phasing model? ANS 🗹🗹:
Construction Project Phasing Model: the subphases of the design guide, programming,
and construction step of BCDPP. Initial project planning, preliminary construction
planning, detailed project planning, final planning and project turnover, project
execution and monitoring, and final project transfer and closeout.
Q: When would you use the BCDPP vs the master planning steps? ANS 🗹🗹: Master
planning steps are used for bases on US soil, base camp development planning process
(BCDPP) is for in-theatre construction.
Q: What are the components of concrete? ANS 🗹🗹: Water, Portland Cement, aggregate,
admixtures, and air
Q: True or false: The purpose of adding rebar is to make concrete stronger under
compression. ANS 🗹🗹: False, concrete is strong under compression, rebar helps make
concrete stronger under tension.
Q: The chemical reaction between Portland cement and water is known as ____________.
ANS 🗹🗹: Hydration
Q: What are the two types of reinforcement for concrete? ANS 🗹🗹: Structural Steel
(rebar): designed to reinforce concrete against forces from static and dynamic loads.
Temperature and shrinkage steel (wire mesh): designed to prevent surface cracks as
the concrete dries and endures temperature changes.
Q: ___ gallons of water should be added for every 1 50lb sack of cement ANS 🗹🗹: 8
gallons
Q: Which one of the following characteristics of concrete INCREASES as water is added?
Strength, durability, water tightness, or workability ANS 🗹🗹: Workability. All of the
others decrease as water is added.
Q: You are building a concrete pad that heavy vehicles will enter onto from a dirt road.
How much should you thicken the edge? What is the ratio you use for a length of taper
