Week 10

This week was a good quick week thanks to the long weekend and a slightly lighter work load. I completed a working drawing for a campsite braai area, washing up area and toilets. The interesting part is that it was designed in and around an old concrete dam.
Wednesday I completed a set of working drawings for a odd shaped 66m² carport which was an extension to a house.
Yesterday was the most enjoyably work day though, because my boss allowed me to design and draw up braai areas for the campsite i worked on, on Tuesday. I had to design and position them on the sites and organize the rest of the individual site layouts. I also got to work on my sketch-up drawing for the Hoyle project.
I'm really stressed about the collage work now though because it is so unclear and in my opinion it is being communicated through to many different websites. it takes an hour just to go through everything to check for new posts every day.

till next week :)

Week 9

Gee this week has been extremely busy, especially because of the HUB design... so glad we get a long weekend now :) This week flew by faster than usual. I spent the majority of my working week drawing base drawings and colouring in plans for council. i did get to work on sketch-up a little though. and i finished the council plans for the doctors practice conversion.
i learned allot about stages and performing and layouts for the HUB design though. i just feel that i could have elaborated on the drawing more. i find it hard to put my mind on paper, but there is reasoning for everything so we see how it goes.
Till next week... ciao

Week 8

Hi again...
Gee, work is picking up even more now, its getting so busy my 'Mr. boss sir' is thinking of getting a new draughtsman in temporarily.
This week i draughted my first set of colour plans, it is just so much neater than using pencils.
well i did the usual, additions alterations and colouring the bigger drawings in.
I did enjoy doing an addition to chicken city in De Aar. The plans and design were interesting, its different to most of the other building i normally work on like the little drive-through with the layout of the areas inside.
Today I just finished the first set of plans for a private doctors rooms and that was also quit interesting due to the layout and the different functions of the rooms.
Well back to work now :)

Week 7

This week flew by so fast that I thought it was Thursday today. Well, I spent most of my time doing changes to plans this week ( 3 different houses).
Monday I worked on putting boundary walls around a site and did changes on a house.
Tuesday I made changes to the Paarl Transfer Station drawing I'd done previously and and drew up a base drawing of a new house, which was extremely confusing because I had to work off very old hand draughted plans that didn't really line up properly or measurements didn't add up.
Wednesday I made changes on an old set of plans and draughted  a staff room & ablution facilities onto the Paarl Transfer Station.
Thursday I started on council plans for the house i measured up in Paarl and on the same day changes came in for those plans so I edited that as well.
Today I'm making last minute changes to a set of plans which is being built and I finished the council plans that i started on yesterday but there are more changes on that, the owners want to extend their living area out and make that half glass panel walls and a glass double door. I must admit it is very interesting details.
Oki Doki thats all for now... enjoy the w-end :)

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...