Back to the office after a good Easter weekend....ahhh!!
this week consisted of alot of re-drafting. this included House Labuschagne and Project Nebula
once the drafting of Nebula was complete, i then showed Enrica, and was told to start with the area calculations. I had to also work out the Gross Leasable Area, which is used to determine the number of parking bays required per a square meter of floor space of a business. next on the list were the parking, landscaping and signage layouts, which i could only do after discussing with the boss. together we went through the area calculations, calculated the number of parking bays required, and started playing around with the layout of the parking bays, making sure we provided a minimum of 11 bays to the property.
Unit 28 at Spearhead Business park was approved this week, and construction could now begin :) :)
I was then asked to complete the drawings of House Joffe, which just involved some drafting, the adding of dimensions, hatching, general notes, aswell as drawing out of the existing drainage and storm-water management of the property...
the week turned out ok, but a weekend is always much needed
cheers till next week :)
Thursday, 19 April 2012
Week 13
Council visits first thing on a Monday morning arent the most pleasant duties... the queues are long, and people are impatient... but ive learnt it's something i've got to get used to. I had to drop off the ammended plans for House de Nobrega ( the beach house in Melkbos ) and make sure the council signs them off as recieved..
i also managed to finish House Smith during the week, and am just waiting for approval by the clients before we can go the next step of council.
re-drafting inlcuded House Labuschagne as well as Project Nebula
I had to return to Blauuwberg council yet again, this time to collect the approved plans of House Schrauwen, which i was a major part of, and ammend the drawing on the computer to what the plan examiner had changed on the approved drawing. After i had finished the drawings for House Schrauwen, we had sent them to the interior designers, and without taking any notice of the change, they had re-configured the bathroom layout, and placed a window closer than 1 meter from the boundary line, which is not acceptabl, unless fir-rated glass is used, and this is quite costly. the plas examiner was kind enough to move the widow for us, and once i got the approved plans back, i had to fix this on the computer. now the plans were looking pretty good! :) I also collected the plans for unit 28 at Spearhead Business park, and these also needed to be ammended as the suspended timber floor used as the loft area was not permitted, and the material had to be changed from timber, to something combustiable like metal sheeting. the plans were then re-submitted, and the wait continues....
Thursday involved me heading off to Big Bay Beach Club to collect plans we had drawn up, that were now approved by the Home Owners Association of the Estate, good news, and we could now submit these plans to council
now its time to forget about work, and get into the mood for the Easter weekend!! :)
i also managed to finish House Smith during the week, and am just waiting for approval by the clients before we can go the next step of council.
re-drafting inlcuded House Labuschagne as well as Project Nebula
I had to return to Blauuwberg council yet again, this time to collect the approved plans of House Schrauwen, which i was a major part of, and ammend the drawing on the computer to what the plan examiner had changed on the approved drawing. After i had finished the drawings for House Schrauwen, we had sent them to the interior designers, and without taking any notice of the change, they had re-configured the bathroom layout, and placed a window closer than 1 meter from the boundary line, which is not acceptabl, unless fir-rated glass is used, and this is quite costly. the plas examiner was kind enough to move the widow for us, and once i got the approved plans back, i had to fix this on the computer. now the plans were looking pretty good! :) I also collected the plans for unit 28 at Spearhead Business park, and these also needed to be ammended as the suspended timber floor used as the loft area was not permitted, and the material had to be changed from timber, to something combustiable like metal sheeting. the plans were then re-submitted, and the wait continues....
Thursday involved me heading off to Big Bay Beach Club to collect plans we had drawn up, that were now approved by the Home Owners Association of the Estate, good news, and we could now submit these plans to council
now its time to forget about work, and get into the mood for the Easter weekend!! :)
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
Week 12
arriving at the office to find out we were having problems with the server wasnt a great start to the week at all, as the server was the brain of all the work we do!! this meant having to work off back-ups that were made onto our 'C- drive' until the IT guy, Joe, was able to come in and fix the problem ASAP! only to find out that he would have to take the server for a few hours so that he could fix the problem at his offices.. great...........
House Leclezio was on the agenda for measuring up. This house was made up of 3 seperate flatlets, rented by different families, but the new owners of the building wanted to create one large family home from all of the flatlets. It is our job to re-measure the project, but the re-drafting would be left to Xavier as it was quite a complicated house. but i wasnt complaining :) The measuring took us a long 8 hours
another measuring-up was to be done at House Ogi, as existing soft-copy plans were not available. this project involved a smaller house in Edgemead being renovated. The boundary walls are to be replaced, the garage is to be extended to the boundary line and a dressing room, en-suite and existing bedroom to be extended to the boundary line. The re-drafting was then handed over to Xavier, as i had enough on my plate already.....
the rest of the week consisted of me continuing with the re-drafting of Project Nebular
till next week
House Leclezio was on the agenda for measuring up. This house was made up of 3 seperate flatlets, rented by different families, but the new owners of the building wanted to create one large family home from all of the flatlets. It is our job to re-measure the project, but the re-drafting would be left to Xavier as it was quite a complicated house. but i wasnt complaining :) The measuring took us a long 8 hours
another measuring-up was to be done at House Ogi, as existing soft-copy plans were not available. this project involved a smaller house in Edgemead being renovated. The boundary walls are to be replaced, the garage is to be extended to the boundary line and a dressing room, en-suite and existing bedroom to be extended to the boundary line. The re-drafting was then handed over to Xavier, as i had enough on my plate already.....
the rest of the week consisted of me continuing with the re-drafting of Project Nebular
till next week
Week 11
first on the 'to-do' list for the week, was the measuring up of Project Nebula. This project involved the re-zoning of a property in Koeberg road. It is currently a bussiness situated in a residential area, and the process of re-zoning has gone from one architect to the next over the past 7 years already, with none of them correctley setting up plans for council..... We were then asked by the comany to take over the project and hopefully complete it to council's standards. The project was then to include site, floor and roof plans, elevations, as well and a parking, landscape and signage layout which was never done properly before.
it took myself and Enrica 5 hours to measure up the property and was over it by the time we got back to the office, lol
throughout the week, i kept having to ammend the plans for House Smith. because of the changes every few minutes, i wasnt sure the drawings would ever come to an end.. one of the changes included the extension to be a mono-pitched roof instead of the flat roof as previously asked for, so i had to call the truss company to enquire about the trusses that would be used for this roof as it couldnt be standard sizes due to the 7 degree roof pitch (lower than normal) and i had to correct the section through this room showing the new roof
another project measured up during the week, was House Labuschange. House Labuschagne is situated in Melkbos, and the project involves the complete renovation of the interior layout aswell as the modernising of the facades. 5 hours of measuring and we were good to go. Time to head back to the office and start with the re-drafting.
Seeing as we were in the area, we decided to go take a look at the progress of House de Nobrega. A quick visit turned into a 2 hour site meeting, which resulted in a loooong, exhausting day away from the office. the 'meeting' was to finalise door sizes and whether to break down certain walls or not....
Grateful this LONG week is overrrrrrr! bring on the weekend! :)
it took myself and Enrica 5 hours to measure up the property and was over it by the time we got back to the office, lol
throughout the week, i kept having to ammend the plans for House Smith. because of the changes every few minutes, i wasnt sure the drawings would ever come to an end.. one of the changes included the extension to be a mono-pitched roof instead of the flat roof as previously asked for, so i had to call the truss company to enquire about the trusses that would be used for this roof as it couldnt be standard sizes due to the 7 degree roof pitch (lower than normal) and i had to correct the section through this room showing the new roof
another project measured up during the week, was House Labuschange. House Labuschagne is situated in Melkbos, and the project involves the complete renovation of the interior layout aswell as the modernising of the facades. 5 hours of measuring and we were good to go. Time to head back to the office and start with the re-drafting.
Seeing as we were in the area, we decided to go take a look at the progress of House de Nobrega. A quick visit turned into a 2 hour site meeting, which resulted in a loooong, exhausting day away from the office. the 'meeting' was to finalise door sizes and whether to break down certain walls or not....
Grateful this LONG week is overrrrrrr! bring on the weekend! :)
Week 10
It felt like a long weekend after the block days we had last week, which makes the routine of waking up early, peak-hour traffic, and the job of sitting infront of the computer all day, all the more daunting.... but i guess its part of life ay...
the week started off at bull-blast, because of the fact that i had missed 2 days of work last week and it was my job to make sure i catch up on all outstanding work.
the first project of the week was 'House Rumbelow,' a log cabin in the Cederberg that was to be re-drafted, as the previous architect's drawings of the extension was not approved by council, yet building had already been completed.... We had a variety of old and existing plans to work with, and was my job to compile these new plans for approval by council, showing the extension as if it was still to be built. Included in these plans, were the floor and roof plans, all elevations, sections, the door and window schedule, drainage section, as well all the general notes. It took me 2 days to complete this project, which meant one more project scratched off the 'to-do' list :)
i then continued with the drawings for house Smith, after Enrica had met with the clients and discussed some changes.
Wednesday was the Receptionist, Tammryn's, last day at work, as she had resigned a month ago... so i decided to have a party the day she left ;) i brought the Starbucks coffee, and tammryn brought the cupcakes that she had baked the previous night.. hmmmmm :) although id only known her for about 2 months, we had gotten to know each other quite well, and every day was a laugh and a half with the two of us in the same room.. but she is quite crafty, and wants to go into the crafting business of making mosaics and paintings, so i wish her well
i then realized i had forgotten to do the area calculations for 'House Rumbelow,' and quickley went back to the drawing and completed this. these calculations included: the coverage, bulk, area of new work, etc. where i had to get the mathematical part of my brain working again,, lol
Friday had eventually come, and the previous year's student was kind enough to come into the office and show me how to go about setting up for the PSS portfolio, as i was not sure of what was needed..
i could say its been a pretty good week after all!
the week started off at bull-blast, because of the fact that i had missed 2 days of work last week and it was my job to make sure i catch up on all outstanding work.
the first project of the week was 'House Rumbelow,' a log cabin in the Cederberg that was to be re-drafted, as the previous architect's drawings of the extension was not approved by council, yet building had already been completed.... We had a variety of old and existing plans to work with, and was my job to compile these new plans for approval by council, showing the extension as if it was still to be built. Included in these plans, were the floor and roof plans, all elevations, sections, the door and window schedule, drainage section, as well all the general notes. It took me 2 days to complete this project, which meant one more project scratched off the 'to-do' list :)
i then continued with the drawings for house Smith, after Enrica had met with the clients and discussed some changes.
Wednesday was the Receptionist, Tammryn's, last day at work, as she had resigned a month ago... so i decided to have a party the day she left ;) i brought the Starbucks coffee, and tammryn brought the cupcakes that she had baked the previous night.. hmmmmm :) although id only known her for about 2 months, we had gotten to know each other quite well, and every day was a laugh and a half with the two of us in the same room.. but she is quite crafty, and wants to go into the crafting business of making mosaics and paintings, so i wish her well
i then realized i had forgotten to do the area calculations for 'House Rumbelow,' and quickley went back to the drawing and completed this. these calculations included: the coverage, bulk, area of new work, etc. where i had to get the mathematical part of my brain working again,, lol
Friday had eventually come, and the previous year's student was kind enough to come into the office and show me how to go about setting up for the PSS portfolio, as i was not sure of what was needed..
i could say its been a pretty good week after all!
Monday, 12 March 2012
Week 9
NOTHING sounds nicer than 'a 3 day week...'
knowing that it was going to be a short week because of the university block on the Thursday and Friday, made the week seem to go by all the more faster :)
The week started off with me having to draft up two different layout options for House Smith of the ground floor entrance, landscaping, concrete canopy, second floor bathroom, dressing room and bedroom layouts and to prepare these for the client.. Enrica had had a meeting with The Smith's and a few changes were then made to both options 1 and 2. I then went back to the computer and drafted up these changes.. I had been working with the architect with regards to this project and the design elements, and found that i was actually having a part in the entire process of the project from design to drafting, it was a good feeling :) Enrica is now to have another meeting with them to finalise any changes and decide on an option or whether to incorporate one option into the other, which i think will be the case.
Because of the new laws, etc, regarding departures, an 'Application of Notice,' is now to be pasted against the wall/window of a house that has departures and it about to begin construction. this notice is to state all the departures, and stating all information such as application number, project address, departures, and for further queries, contact numbers. this form has to remain up for 30 days and a photo has to be taken of the form against the building for submitting to council, with the date on the photo as proof of notice being placed on house. So it was my job to head over to House de Nobrega ( major renovation project in Melkbosstrand) paste up the form against the sliding door that faced the road, allowing all passer-bys to be able to view, aand ensure i had taken good enough photos that could be added to the forms which were to be submitted to council. it ended up being a nice outing away from the office, and seeing that construction had already begun, made it all the more exciting as i had helped with some small design aspects of the house, and had drafted up quite a bit, pix of progress will be posted up later
i was then given a new project, House Rumbelow, which was a log-cabin in ElandsBay that was to be extended to accomodate a third bedroom, bathroom, and a new living area.
The reason for me having to have done this project, was that plans the owner himself, had done previously were not approved by council. alot of work needed to be done, and all this meant re-drafting as the plans were all hand-drawn......
many things such as building lines, sections, site plans, window sizes, etc had been ommitted, and was my job to go through the feedback form from the council and 'check' off everything i complete as i go along.
work began slow, as neither plans, sections, nor elevations corresponded at all, and was my job to keep in contact with the owner and clarify with him as to what the existing structure was composed of. It was nearing the end of the week, and i still hadn't gotten all the answers i needed...
I knew that Wednesday was going to be a long day, as my boss always has the excuse of 'you need to make up for the time that you are going to be away at university...' which always makes me feel alot better.. pfft!!! so the day went by realy slowly with me having to continue with previous projects, until i was asked to help Enrica with the admin of all outstanding projects... i thought this was going to be a quick meeting, just getting the feeling of how the admin works when it comes to piling together forms to be submitted to council. the new regulations ,meant that a LARGE number of forms are to be submitted together with the drawings of a project, and what a mission having to get all these forms together. sometimes i could just get lost in the amount of forms i have to work with, ai.. i had begun the meeting at about 1pm,, and by the time i had walked out of Enrica's office, it was just after half past four! shocked as i was, not having realized how fast time had flown, and that i was four hours behind on drawing work, i started stressing, and Enrica was wanting me to still complete work before i could leave the office, and this would take me to past 6. I had needed to get home as i was still in the need of completing a project for university that was due the next day, so i informed the boss of this, and she was ok and let me off :)
It was now back to uni. and the awesome feeling of seeing all your old friends again, felt realy good, especially the break from the pressurized office environment..
we were handed out a program of the next two days and could see what would be expected of us till that 4'o'clock sign-off on friday.
although i knew these two days werent gonna be all fun and games, i was still pretty excited. we had recieved a number of hand-outs to projects, sat in on a few lectures, had a few lunch breaks, and after 2 days, it was weekend!! A LONG DESERVED WEEKEND!!!!!
knowing that it was going to be a short week because of the university block on the Thursday and Friday, made the week seem to go by all the more faster :)
The week started off with me having to draft up two different layout options for House Smith of the ground floor entrance, landscaping, concrete canopy, second floor bathroom, dressing room and bedroom layouts and to prepare these for the client.. Enrica had had a meeting with The Smith's and a few changes were then made to both options 1 and 2. I then went back to the computer and drafted up these changes.. I had been working with the architect with regards to this project and the design elements, and found that i was actually having a part in the entire process of the project from design to drafting, it was a good feeling :) Enrica is now to have another meeting with them to finalise any changes and decide on an option or whether to incorporate one option into the other, which i think will be the case.
Because of the new laws, etc, regarding departures, an 'Application of Notice,' is now to be pasted against the wall/window of a house that has departures and it about to begin construction. this notice is to state all the departures, and stating all information such as application number, project address, departures, and for further queries, contact numbers. this form has to remain up for 30 days and a photo has to be taken of the form against the building for submitting to council, with the date on the photo as proof of notice being placed on house. So it was my job to head over to House de Nobrega ( major renovation project in Melkbosstrand) paste up the form against the sliding door that faced the road, allowing all passer-bys to be able to view, aand ensure i had taken good enough photos that could be added to the forms which were to be submitted to council. it ended up being a nice outing away from the office, and seeing that construction had already begun, made it all the more exciting as i had helped with some small design aspects of the house, and had drafted up quite a bit, pix of progress will be posted up later
i was then given a new project, House Rumbelow, which was a log-cabin in ElandsBay that was to be extended to accomodate a third bedroom, bathroom, and a new living area.
The reason for me having to have done this project, was that plans the owner himself, had done previously were not approved by council. alot of work needed to be done, and all this meant re-drafting as the plans were all hand-drawn......
many things such as building lines, sections, site plans, window sizes, etc had been ommitted, and was my job to go through the feedback form from the council and 'check' off everything i complete as i go along.
work began slow, as neither plans, sections, nor elevations corresponded at all, and was my job to keep in contact with the owner and clarify with him as to what the existing structure was composed of. It was nearing the end of the week, and i still hadn't gotten all the answers i needed...
I knew that Wednesday was going to be a long day, as my boss always has the excuse of 'you need to make up for the time that you are going to be away at university...' which always makes me feel alot better.. pfft!!! so the day went by realy slowly with me having to continue with previous projects, until i was asked to help Enrica with the admin of all outstanding projects... i thought this was going to be a quick meeting, just getting the feeling of how the admin works when it comes to piling together forms to be submitted to council. the new regulations ,meant that a LARGE number of forms are to be submitted together with the drawings of a project, and what a mission having to get all these forms together. sometimes i could just get lost in the amount of forms i have to work with, ai.. i had begun the meeting at about 1pm,, and by the time i had walked out of Enrica's office, it was just after half past four! shocked as i was, not having realized how fast time had flown, and that i was four hours behind on drawing work, i started stressing, and Enrica was wanting me to still complete work before i could leave the office, and this would take me to past 6. I had needed to get home as i was still in the need of completing a project for university that was due the next day, so i informed the boss of this, and she was ok and let me off :)
It was now back to uni. and the awesome feeling of seeing all your old friends again, felt realy good, especially the break from the pressurized office environment..
we were handed out a program of the next two days and could see what would be expected of us till that 4'o'clock sign-off on friday.
Week 8
The week started off to many Council visits. I took Enrica's car again, and made a visit at the city of cape town council, where i had to submit plans of House Groeneweg, which Xavier had been working on for the past while. the same day i had to get to the Blaauwberg council to collect some departure forms for the Pool house i am working on for House Schrauwen. this would be the last phase before the plans could be submitted.
I then managed to complete the council drawings for House Thompson. where an existing patio was to be enclosed with a boarded roof and alluminium stacking doors. the final drawings turned out pretty well, and i was again impressed with the work i had done.
i was then given the task of taking over the drawings of House Myburgh, that previous students had not completed.. the house was quite complex, and situated in the Golf Estate of Sunset Links... revisions had to be made, and because the house was unfamiliar to me, it took me a while to get the drawings up to scratch. but after a few changes, i could see the house coming to life.. changes i had to make to the drawings included the enclosing of two 1st floor bedroom balconies with boarded roofs and alluminium sliding windows, adding of allumium canopies along the house as this was a house prone to getting golf balls in the windows atleast once a week, aswell as playing around with the landscaping. This project is still in progress :)
with regards to the Spearhead Business park project i had been working on, after the engineer had seen the drawings and had a meeting with Enrica, it was deduced that our proposed brickwork on the 1st floor was to be too much of a strain onto the ground floors walls and was to be converted to dry-walling. i had done this change, and the plans were then ready for submittance.
To another good week :)
I then managed to complete the council drawings for House Thompson. where an existing patio was to be enclosed with a boarded roof and alluminium stacking doors. the final drawings turned out pretty well, and i was again impressed with the work i had done.
i was then given the task of taking over the drawings of House Myburgh, that previous students had not completed.. the house was quite complex, and situated in the Golf Estate of Sunset Links... revisions had to be made, and because the house was unfamiliar to me, it took me a while to get the drawings up to scratch. but after a few changes, i could see the house coming to life.. changes i had to make to the drawings included the enclosing of two 1st floor bedroom balconies with boarded roofs and alluminium sliding windows, adding of allumium canopies along the house as this was a house prone to getting golf balls in the windows atleast once a week, aswell as playing around with the landscaping. This project is still in progress :)
with regards to the Spearhead Business park project i had been working on, after the engineer had seen the drawings and had a meeting with Enrica, it was deduced that our proposed brickwork on the 1st floor was to be too much of a strain onto the ground floors walls and was to be converted to dry-walling. i had done this change, and the plans were then ready for submittance.
To another good week :)
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