The weeks blur...

The weeks are going by so fast now, it just all becomes one big blur and it is hard to keep track of what you are doing and what you have done. Yet you have to find a way to keep track some how, and ontop of that try to fit some school work in there somwhere and meet those deadlines that just never seem to go away. Like a small devil sitting on your shoulder reminding you that there is no rest for the wicked and no eaise for those who has not finished there school work.

So the week at work was this and that, but mostly on the working drawings of the boundry wall and pool for site because the builders are waiting for them. That was interesting work and very much like the previous entrance drawing i did wih very modern cantilivered slabs over pools and lots of details to consider and i learnt alot, othersie the rest of the week was revisions on old drawings i did.
I cant wait till i get to go to one of these sites that i am working on because im sure they are going to be amazing houses by the looks of things, very modern and expensive.
Anyway lets see what happends next week.

till next time
sleezy,cheesy,blogger
MIMISA

Revit Modeling

So this week after the monday morning meeting it was decided that i would move on to help on House Afonso, on the beach at Camps Bay.

Initialy i was to start on the door and window schedule and re-model  them in revit, but we soon realised that the revit work was not up to date and done in 2d, so i started updating the revit model first and checking ceilings to make sure of the door placements. So the modeling took me about two days and over time to apdate and fix, but by that time it was wed. , the holiday...

Then thur. came and Dion wanted to know how far the doors and windows were and i had barely started them, and he wanted them done by friday or we were working the weekend. There were lots of issues, crits and phone calls about door sizes, glass thicknesess and weather they were aluminuim or frameless. Neverthelesss friday came and the stress was on but i worked late and it was finished on friday evening. wow, a very stressfull week. glad its over.

till next time
sleezy, cheesy, blogger
MIMISA

Reception *Stresses!!!*

The week was pretty up tight and stressfull with the boss man on me whole week to do this ground floor reception area for Oceana building, while Riaz gives me aother things to do, all on top of the fact that i never went to site when he said i must go.

I started the week with more Oceana joinery drawings and details, and thats when Dion told us that the reception needs to be issued. Then Riaz gave me more cieling details for Oceana to do for all the floors for the offices. Then i had to do the fire door schedule for the automated sliding fire doors, and then started with the ground floor reception.

So Riaz sets me up with the draing and i get started, then dion comes and gives me the most craziest crit ever, you never know where you are after Dion crits you, you just sort of sit there. So the crit he says alot of things, about what must go there and how it must fit, but he also says that he want to relocate the fire control panel into the desk aswel and seeing as we are not sure of its dimensions i sure go to site and have a look at it. But then at the same time he says that this drawing should be out asap. so how do i go to site and get the drawing out and can i just go to site by myself?
Anyway so friday comes and we have another crit and Dion goes crazy because this drawing needs to go out today and we are trying to confirm finishes. So i finished the drawing and we issued to tender for pricing. And then Doin wants to know why i didnt go to site? But when should i have gone and how?

So anyway no site visit but the drawing is out with a "to be confirmed on site" note attached to the fire control panel. oh well maybe next time.

Till next time
sleezy, cheesy, blogger
MIMISA

Details :)

Ok so only four days of this week but not too bad on the work front. Lots of details, jumping from one project to the next  but all having the same thing in common, the details. All the projects that are happenning here at the moment and that i am working on are all at round about that stage where the builder needs to see the construction details and needs to be issued "yesturday".

So it started with a pool detail and sections for construction on house Joubert, which had me scratching my head abit, about where the best location for the pump should be, and what the shadowline overhang pool surounds should be. but that took me about 2 days then it was on to the doors and windows schedule where everthing is custom made and we had to work out everthing so that it fitted in nicely and corrisponded with the overall design off the "very modern" house. The once the electrical guy finally sent the electrical referances fro all three floors, i could check it, prep it, and print/send for construction. Then i moved on to something i never did before, ceiling layouts and details. I nevr thought you did layouts for ceilings, i just thought you put it in. Well i learn something new everyday, apparently you need them when your ceiling is that complicated like this on is, or like most of them are here on these projects they work on. Lots of bulkheads and floating ceilings and shadowlines, which  means lots of details on all three floors.

But all in all its been a good week and i just keep on learning.

till next time
sleezy, cheesy, blogger
MIMISA