Monday, February 28, 2011

Day 2: Surveying

There are two projects we are working on and it's for two separate ministries. The larger site is ECFC that is around 2+ Acres. The second site is TIM that is approximately 6000sqft.

The start of the day begins with going to the ECFC site at 9:00am to survey the site while a 6ft deep hole is being dug at the TIM site for soil and water testings. I ended up following the architects around to analyze the existing building while the engineers surveyed the site. We documented the existing building - the way it's constructed, materials used, methods for construction (such as Styrofoam to mold curves in the concrete floor slab), and how the workers constructed since it is still being constructed. We spoke about ideas, learned about the structure and then when everything was finished, we had lunch. Then we surveyed the TIM site and had dinner after that. This was pretty much the entire day so there's not too much interesting information here. FYI Surveying = measuring, dimensioning and checking the contour heights of the land. The interesting part of surveying the site was using an extremely sensitive hand level. Luckily the engineer brought his own hand level that was more advanced than the one we were SUPPOSED to bring. Apparently, we had packed the wrong level tool.


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