Sunday, July 4, 2010

Week 12 (21/6/2010-25/6/2010)

21/6/2010
-Followed Ir. Low Chen Seng to Kota Damansara to check the places where I need to do reconnaissance survey the next day to prepare bills of quantity for constructing a main draain and desilting of 2 ponds.
-Went to PKNS office to collect a few files for Ir. Low Chen Seng.

22/6/2010
-Did the reconnaisance survey in Kota Damansara, where the main drain is going to be constructed and 2 ponds to be desilted.
-Went to Taman Melawati, to check the concreting of the piling holes of the double storey bungalow.

23/6/2010
-Followed Ms. Azila to Majlis Perbandaran Selayang and JKR Selayang to submit earthwork and drainage drawings for approval.
-Went to Dijaya Sdn. bhd. office to collect some drawings.

24/6/2010
-Followed Mr. Law Lok Hong to the landfill sites in Sua Betong, Pajam and Bukit Palong

25/6/2010
-My last day of internship.
-Met all the staff and thanked them for their support, help and kindness throughout my 3months stay in the company
-Took photos with the staff

Week 11 (14/62010-18/6/2010)

14/5/2010 - 15/6/2010
-Edited the key plan of the 3 storey housing project (Dolomite properties)

16/6/2010
-Tracing of the intermediate lot and odd end lot of the 3 storey housing project.

17/6/2010
-Went to a 2 storey bungalow construction site in Taman Melawati. Checked the dimensions of the reinforcement for casson piling on the slope.

18/6/2010
-Followed Law Kok Hong to 3 landfill sites in Pajam, Bukit Palong and Sua Betong.

Week 10 (7/6/2010-11/6/2010)

7/6/2010
-Lecturer from UNITEN, Dr Abdullahi visited us for our Industrial Training evaluation-we talked about what we have done for the past 2 months.
-Worked on the 2nd floor structural key plan of a 3 storey housing project in Rawang.

8/6/2010
-Drew the roof structural key plan of a 3 storey housing project.

9/6/2010
-Continued with the beam sizing for the 2nd floor and roof. Did a bit of calculation to determine the thickness of the slab.

10/6/2010
-Prepared a report for Haizal on sewerage design for housing development in Bandar Kinrara, Puchong (Phase MV1 & MV2). This report is to get approval from IWK for a few manholes and sewer pipes at this development.

11/6/2010
-Followed Haizal to the site, Balai Seni Lukis Negara. Construction of a 7 storey administration building has been going on for about 1 year. Mr Ng Keng Wai, the assistant residential engineer took us around the building and explained about the construction.






Week 9 (31/5/2010 - 4/6/2010)

31/5/2010
-Site visit to Emerald West, Rawang

1/6/2010
-Checked the beams for Law Lok Hong, Phase 3F project.

2/6/2010
-Attended a short lecture by Ir. Lim on the drainage system in Malaysia.He spoke about the drainage system before and after the implementation of MASMA.
-Learnt up a little bit on the designing of staircases.

3/6/2010
-Followed Ir. Low Chen Seng to the site of construction of a 2 storey bungalow in Taman Melawati, Ulu Kelang.
-went to another site in Telok Panglima Garang, Kuala Langat where they were building a factory, Chemi Con.
-Went to two authority departments for some submission work, Jabatan Saliran Air and Majlis Daerah Kuala Langat.

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Week 8 (24/5/2010 - 28/5/2010)

24/5/2010
-Prepared report on site visit to pump house in Taman Saujana Hijau,Precint 11, Putrajaya. Report contains details of the pump, pumping system, irrigation system and others. Handed in report to Ir.Ng Keng Keong.
-Attached photos in the report too.

25/5/2010
-Highlighted out the pipe lines supplying water to and from the swimming pool of Tropicana Golf & Country Resort. There was a leakage in the pipe line. We used orange colour to highlight the pipes connecting the pool to the balancing tank, green from the pump house to the pool, red from balancing tank to the pump house and brown from the make-up tank to the balancing tank.
-Did some colouring of areas to be cut and filled for a housing development, did A4 size folding as well.

26/5/2010
-Highlighted the pipe lines from the jacuzzi to the balancing tank, balancing tank to the pump and pump back to the jacuzzi with 3 different colours.
-Did some tender drawing colouring for submission purpose, under Ir. Low Chen Seng.

27/5/2010
-Ir. Ng Keng Keon explained to us about how the swimming pool operates and components of a swimming pool. Borrowed a book from the library titled "Swimming Pool" by Perkins. This book is about procedures to follow in constructing a swimming pool. Read up about valves from a valve supplier brochure, Valvematic.

28/5/2010
-Public Holiday

Week 7 (18/5/2010 - 21/5/2010)

18/5/2010
-Edited the PE table again and submitted it to Ir.Lim.
-Ir.Lim briefed us on the schematic diagram of a water reticulation system.
-Did and exercise to calculate the head loss in a water pipe using the Hazen-Williams method.

19/5/2010
-Read up on steps of proper landfill closure. Learn about the functions of HDPE liner, geosynthetic clay liner, and geosynthetic drainage liner.
-Followed Ir.Ng Keng Keon to site, Taman Saujana Hijau at Presint 11, Putrajaya. There was a problem in the pumphouse, water was leaking.

20/5/2010
-Did some colouring of drawings for submission purpose and also folded all the drawings to A4 size.
-For concrete, green colour was used, red for bricks, blue for steel and grey for gravel.

21/5/2010
-Read about the vertical multistage centrifugal pump from the GRUNDFHOS.
-Pump used in the pump house is a CRE15 model, with a electronic frequency controller.
-Learnt about check valve, water hammer, diaphragm tank.

Week 6 (10/5/2010 - 14/5/2010)

10/5/2010
-Edited the population equivalent table, inserted the detailed break down of the new revised layout plan for area A05, A06 and A13.
-Calculated the water demand according to sections for low zone, sector B, Sri Damansara.

11/5/2010
-Finalized the population equivalent table.
-Current cumulative population equivalent is 81486. The cumulative population equivalent with the new revised layout plan is about 102455.

12/5/2010
-Went to 3 landfill sites, Sua Betong, Pajam and Bukit Palong.
-The HDPE was not fixed properly at the leachate pond in Pajam.
-The water stop which is used at every concrete casting stop was not fixed properly.

13/5/2010
-Checked the beams of housing project (Phase 3F), checked if the names and sizes in the drawings were accurate.

14/5/2010
-Went to site with Law Lok Hong, Emerald West Phase 3F development in Rawang. Attended the site meeting.
-Took photos of show house which was being constructed.
-First floor slabs completed, columns erected.

Week 5 (3/5/2010 - 7/5/2010)

3/5/2010 - 4/5/2010
-Cross sections for a retention pond.
- I did 7 cross sections and scale used was 1 : 1000 for both horizontal and vertical.
-Determined the amount to be cut and filled based on the proposed ground level.

5/5/2010
-Continued with cross sections for retention pond. Calculated volume to be cut and filled.
-Marked points of 30m interval on the apron, where level readings are taken every fortnight and found certain points have settlement up to 4mm.

6/5/2010 - 7/5/2010
-Computed table for cumulative population equivalent built-up for Bandar Sri Damansara.
-There were revised layout plan for are A05 & A06, A13 also. From this, I found out that the current sewage treatment plants NO 3 is insufficient, so a few STP's has to be proposed.

Week 4 (26/4/2010 - 30/4/2010)

26/4/2010
-Calculate water demand for an area in Sri Damansara.
-Calculated the area of road to be resurfaced, area for road widening, walkways, kerbs for cost calculation of the project.
-Ir.Lim explained to us about road cross sections, importance of taking into account every little detail for cost calculation of a project.

27/4/2010
-Studied about yield line design from " Practical Yield Line Design" by Gerrard Kennedy & Charles Goodchild.
-Applied the yield line design to find the moment on a wall of a typical landfill pump station.

28/4/2010
-Went to Sri Damansara at about 9am to survey the land use in order to calculate the water demand in the area. Took photos of the industrial area, shoplots, houses and others.
-After that, we went to Persiaran Damansra to survey the area as road widening, resurfacing, walkway building and kerb replacement works are going to take place. We took photos of the junctions, trees, lamp posts that have to be taken into account for project costing.
-Got back to office at about 3pm, continued calculating the water demand.

29/4/2010
-Continued with the water demand calculation, prepared water demand table with a total of about 1.3million gallons/day

30/4/2010
-Completed the water demand table, revised the demand/unit for a few premises, handed in the table.
-Coloured the layout plan to differentiate houses, light industry, workshops, offices,schools and companies.
-After lunch, went to terrace housing project(Phase 3F) in Rawang with Law Lok Hong. Took photos of the show house being constructed. Attended the site meeting which was held at Emerald West Sales Office.
-Discussed about progress of construction, switches to be used in houses.
-Meeting attended by client, architect, quantity surveyor, quality controller, structural consultant, M&E consultant and contractor.

Week 3 (19/4/2010 - 23/4/2010)

19/4/2010
-Studied layout plan for Penang Airport for renovation works.
-Marked out toilets,sewer pipeline, cables and water supply system in the airport layout plan.
-Marked the sewer line, and water supply system according to scale.

21/4/2010 - 23/4/2010
-Continued checking beams for the terrace housing project as there were some changes.

Week 2 (12/4/2010 - 16/4/2010)

12/4/2010
-Learn up on moment distribution method from Chanakya Arya's "Design of Structural Elements".
-Continued checking beam sizes and steel reinforcement.

13/5/2010 - 15/5/2010
-Found most of the beams were overdesigned.
-Reduced bar sizes and also beam sizes.
-Went through photos of landfill closure project, leachate ponds.
-Ir.Lim Guan Hock showed us about a project of widening roads of Penang Airport, relocating water supply pipeline, sewerage

16/5/2010
-Finalised on beams of first floor and ground floor.
-Checked the redesigned beams for Law Lok Hong for his tender meeting

Week 1 (5/4/2010 - 9/4/2010)

5/4/2010
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First day of my industrial Training at Zaidun-Leeng Sdn.Bhd
-Zaidun-Leeng Sdn. Bhd,
6th Floor, Bangunan Ming #06-01,
Jalan Bukit Nanas,
50250 Kuala Lumpur.
-Met Ms.Josephine, collected building access card.
-Met my supervisor, Ir.Lim Guan Hock and he briefed us on my industrial training.
-Director gave me a task to look into points of level of an apron at the Penang Airport, identify the depression areas as there were water pondings.

6/4/2010
-Prepared contour for apron.
-One area depression was about 40mm.
-Calculated gross area of ponding.
-Evaporation rate in Malaysia about 6mm/day, permanent ponding here.

7/4/2010
-Did critical cross sections on contour to get surface profile of apron.
-Discussed about sump design, slab with 1 unsupported side with triangular load on it.

8/4/2010
-Mr.Law Lok Hong gave me a layout drawing and I identified the area to be cut and filled for a housing development project in Rawang.
-Cut and fill edited on AutoCad
-Analysing beams and columns of a housing project in Rawang, most beams were overdesigned
-Found reactions, loads acting on each beam.

9/4/2010
-Identified beams for roof,first floor, and ground floor.
-Checked beam sizes if it could be reduced and also checked steel reinforcement.