Friday, October 14, 2011

Week 39

On Monday i received the surveyors plan for Gazet and that's changing my sections and elevations quite a bit.
I started and finished the changes for the gym in St. Georges Mall and did a few proposal layouts for the positioning of low-cost house o sites in Kaya Mandi, Stellenbosch.
On Wednesday, we went to measure up a huge manner house in Constantia which also had the biggest most amaizing garden i've ever seen. Althugh i was constantly running away from the bee-hives......
Yesterday, i started doing the council drawings for the Botha project.
And today i've been finishing that and changing a whole lot of settings on Caddie 17.
Need the weekend after this week!!!

Week 38

Right, so, this week work got more busy again...
I worked on a few alterations on older projects and drew up a floor layout for an office in Durbanville.
I started working on working drawings for the Gazet project, but that is still in early stages and im still waiting for the surveyors plans for the sections and elevations.
On Thursday, I drew up another floor layout for the Union Textile factory and on Friday I went to measure, check fire plan and the drainage of a gym in town, St. Georges Mall.

Friday, September 30, 2011

Week 37

I draughed the base drawing for a house that I also designed the master bedroom, en-suite and covered patio for. It was a nice little change for me in the office again. I really enjoyed that.
I finally finished setting up the caddie 16 setting, and now I'm working on that. I caught onto it very fast because it similar to AutoCAD, which was awesome.
I also draughted up interesting base plans for another house. It was interesting because there was a wide oval shaped staircase in the center of the house with 2 different access point on the first floor. That took a while to figure out :).
Weekend :)...!

Week 36

This week I carried on with working on office layouts for old mutual and completed 2 so far. I also coloured in the Demnits plans for council, that took a while....
I did allot of drawing and amending for office m², for client that want to rent their offices out.
I went to measure up a house in Constancia which my colleague is going to draw up... Amazing, simple little house with allot of attention payed to the detail.
I also started doing the setup for caddie 16.

Monday, September 19, 2011

Week 35

We got Caddie 16 this week which means everything is gonna be slow-mo for a while.
Loving the new program though... Especially because it has allot of AutoCAD functions :).
Well this week I worked on Demnitz the majority of the time and im very close to finishing it. Just one review by my boss and all should be good. Hoping i dont have to do a drainage section for it, because it has a really weird drainage layout with sewer pipes running allong the wall above the groud to a pump tank, because of the NGL slope.
Other than that i did a bit of office admin to get away from the Demnitz project a bit.
I also started on a new project for Old Mutual today, which consists of office layouts, sections and internal elevations. It should be an on going project with allot of different offices around SA.
It is quite interesting.

Week 34

This week I did allot of drawing up and changes on low cost housing which was drawing up a set of plans from scratch and then placing it on 102 different sites. I must admit, that was tedious.
On Tuesday, My boss sent me to measure up a house in Bishops alone. which took the whole day.
On Wednesday, I drew up the full ground floor and first floor plans of the Bishops house.
On Thursday, completed the Site plan, sections and elevations. I was quite surprised at my own time efficiency.
And today im working on Demnits council plans again... Long and boring now.
Need the weekend!!!

Friday, September 2, 2011

Week 33

This week I finished a set of council plans for the Demnitz project but its been sent to Germany for a client to see so it might still come back with changes again...
I also went to measure up and take NGL levels of the front area of a house in town and drew it up with two sections for a client that is thinking what to do with the space.
On Thursday I drew up low costs housing for persons with disabilities, which was interesting and also gave me a reason to read through the new SANS booklet.
Today I'm working on changes on 102 low-cost housing units, well starting with it anyways.
Oh yea, i almost forgot... I've been doing some advisory work for students coming in with projects and students not knowing what to study...