20th - 24th August 2012

UN-Common Places...

This week went by okay, I'm finding myself facing really difficult challenges at work. I have been drawing up burnt down shops for refurbishing, finishing off new office drawings for council, The company is  Greystone Wendy houses this was tricky as there was a mix up with title deeds, set backs on site areas for new proposed roads and I made quite a lot of mistakes seeing that most of the time I have to puzzle out the work on my own.
Above all of this, my latest hard jobs includes drawing up a house in Tamboerskloof from almost unreadable plans which I managed to scale up using a grid. The house has split levels as it is one really sloppy site. (someone must have been trying to test my love for sloped sites because I really hated this job) to make it worse is WHAT I had to draw up, a 6-passenger funicular, which is a sort of an escalator mixed with a elevator as the entrance on site is very far away from the main house and one has to walk up a series of stairs in order to get inside, which is probably no fun in winter.
This was quite a challenge for me as not only is it situated on a sloped site but it is set at an angle in order to get from point A to B and me and the boss man had quite different views as to how it should be drawn up. Because he was not in office I already opted for my perspective on the matter. Leaving him with no room to help me. Apart from him being busy he has not done a job like this before. And obviously to him I did not accomplish his standards in this one, so I'm not sure if I look at it as an accomplishment that no one has done before or a disappointment...

On a lighter, happier note. I had a chance to draw up fire plans for a small shop in Pinelands situated within a local mall. Although the job was small I quite enjoyed it  as I got to use my bosses very interesting fire layout library and see how fire plans are worked out.. pretty cool stuff...