2012-03-19

So it's official I am not a multi-task type of person, between being really ill lately, a huge amount of office work and training with three colleagues I've neglected my tech work which is really most important. And now I'm really trying to make up for it, so where do I begin,

Back at work my boss has taken a lot of time teaching me drainage, I just about got the hang of it now, I can lay out drainage on plan, and draw up drainage sections as well. He has also shown me how to do second runs and how to connect it to existing drainage, I've learnt about slow bends, sizes, where to put rodding eyes, manholes, municipal connections, we have been through costs of all of the above and its basically just like tech but in a practical sense.

Ashley is teaching me sketchup and rendering and another colleague of ours, Clement is busy teaching me revit. They are all helping me to deal with clients, council and quotations as well and I print and check all council submissions and filling in the forms, dealing with scrutiny fees, and amendments to drawings so I'm getting loads of experience in the admin department.

Apart from this my boss has taken quite a liking to me and is quite positive that I will be THE BEST! haha so I'm already busy with private work, he has given me a small block of apartments to design and finish to council submission (on my own time so all earnings comes to me) , and on top of that I have my own project to do, I am busy designing a shelter for a non-profitable organisation in Retreat to help homeless people so I'm really excited about that, my boss is helping me with this too as he is signing off the drawings for me.

So, this is my life at the moment, but right now my main focus is to try and balance my time and catch up with all my tech work, so watch this space guys...

2012-03-01

The structure I chose is fairly simple, with the brickwork and gumpoles acting as the primary structure, and the timber structures, the secondary structure to provide some shade and a sense of closure. I initially did the drawings on AUTOCAD and converted it to pdf files which could not be upload, so I had to convert them to jpg files which loses a lot of the quality of the drawings, so hopefully I'll find a better way to upload work next time.