Week 6

Gee, this job really keeps me busy. I started and finished a set of working drawings on a house that I measured up in Paarl. It was mainly external covering of a carport and patio which was quite detailed due to the design and a small addition to a living room. On Tuesday we went to measure up the positioning of a swimming pool for a rider plan. I completed the base plans for the Paarl TF Station which we measured up last week. Then I was given a project to place low cost housing (in Betty's Bay) on there sites. It was interesting to see the different layouts and positioning. Yesterday I drew up a base bathroom layout for the inside to be re-done. I'm hoping that project comes my way again to complete when everyones minds are made up :)... And finally today I was told to start on a 3D presentation of a house in Newlands, I'm using sketch up to draw it up but probably a different program for more realistic rendering.
And now to end this weeks blogging off ------>
Its the week end baby........

week 5

This week I got a chance to leave the PC screen im glued to now days. I went to measure up three houses and the Paarl TF Station. Also I'm now working on a set of rider plans, extentions to one of the houses I measured up and drawing up plans for the Paarl TF Station. Its quite tough trying to juggle 3 different projects at the same time, but I'd say I'm coping pretty well. Otherwise time seems to be flying, the work keeps me so bussy. You know what they say, time flies when your having fun haha...

Week 1 - week 4

Getting settled

My first week at work was very interesting, meeting my colleagues and getting settled in. I had to learn a new draughting program that I've never worked on before (CADDIE). It is totally different from AutoCAD so I did struggle a little, but learned quickly.

After that, I got started with a project on factory alterations, which proved to be quite challenging because alterations and extensions are not my strong point. Never-the-less I finished it and learned quite a lot on just that project, so it was a good stepping stone.

There after I've been working on to projects simultaneously. They are both house addition projects, which are totally different to each other. I'm really enjoying both of them because of the different styles of housing.

Overall I think I'm starting to settle into the new office quite nicely now.

Catch up soon...