Week 32

Well Atlantic Centre was finished this week and sent off to the engineers and the other architectural firm. Well that’s a load off. It was a big project and everyone was putting pressure on us from all sides to get the surveying plans done.

Now I’m back to working on the Demnits project and the client is happy with the options we have shown him, so now it’s onto the council and building plans. It’s a little more detailed as it is 1:50 plans and sections.

I also spent Thursday on drawing up low cost housing from a really scruffy incorrect set of plans. It all makes sense now though J.

Week 31

I was actually glad to be back at work to finish off the Atlantic centre project. The whole week just consisted of going to measure the building every 2^nd day and drawing up the building every other day. We luckily ran into the elevator maintenance guy, so I got to ride on top of the all the lifts. It was extremely helpful because, I could pick up all the beam and column thicknesses inside the lift shafts but I found it really strange that the refuse lift shaft was plastered and painted on the first 3 floors. I did allot of drilling and check measurements as the project was coming to an end. The sorting out of all the loose ends and nitty-gritties is very tedious.

Week 30

I really enjoyed Block 2. It was nice to get away from the workload and see my fellow students and lecturers again. In a nutshell, the whole week was very educational and fun. I enjoyed it all.

Week 29

This whole week was spent on measuring up the Atlantic Center in town and I'm busy drawing the sections at the same time while my colleague is working on the plans.

 We are working with the engineers to find out where all the concrete supports, columns and slabs are. That is where I come in lol. I have been drilling into the walls, chipping away the plaster, finding out where there are step ups and step downs of the slab in the walls, kicking doors in, breaking down the suspended ceiling and drilling through floor slabs for the thicknesses.
As well as measuring up the whole building at the same time.
I must admit, I'm having Quite a bit of fun on the project.

Week 28

Here we go again...
On Monday and Tuesday we went to measure up the Atlantic Centre in town, which is right at the Thomas
Platulo building. The engineers want to know where the concrete framed structure lies and where the grid lines are... its gonna take a while......
On Wednesday, i had to do changes on plans for a house that is currently being built. so i must just keep the plan up to date because they are changing things on sight.
On Thursday i Placed 32 Low cost housing on their own sights with all the info and started making changes on the Caledon low cost housing units.
And today we went to take a few check measurements at the Atlantic Centre and i got to demolish suspended ceilings and doors to find out where the beams run, which was AWESOME.

Week 27

Well this week went nice an short.
All i did this week was, work on different options and materials for the 3D drawing im working on,
Converted an AutoCAD drawing to Caddie so that all the layers and line weights are right,
We went to measure up the outside area of an existing house for extentinons and
started the working drawings on the Demnitz project of which the client has made up his mind on an option with a few alterations.
:) Awesome week

Week 26

This week i did alterations on 14 different low cost housing units. The only thing i don't like about it is that i cant add it into my portfolio work.
I also worked on a site layout for a site that we will probably go and measure next week.
There were a few amendments that needed to be done on one of the older projects which i did.
I have made changes to the Meerlust project plans ( 3D project) so now I've been working on the changes on the 3D model which takes quite a bit longer to do...
Sedick is a guy that walks plans through council for my boss. I had to do quite large changes on house plans for his own house. It's quite a process, because he wants to sub-divide his site and it has a future road widening restriction, which i find very interesting so I'm going to follow up on that project.
other than that, work has picked up in the office again, which is great.
I'm just a little worried and confused about my collage work now...