Weekly Update

This week started with the client for the Tokai job coming to see developement on the sketch plans, he has taken them to his mother and we are waiting for his approval before we go ahead with council submissions.

The rest of the week has been slow. Our architect has been in and out of the hospital this week, so we have been in the office doing as we see fit, and cathcing up on university work. I have completed all of my PSS, but, when attempting to access the folder on my flash, it gave a 'read error: file cannot be accessed.' which means its either corrupted or not there. I ran a disk check to fix errors on the volume, and it deleted several of my folders... no backups. Start over next week. At least I have my draughts in rough on paper. My MIP milestone 1 have been uploaded. I will continue tweaking it, but the submission is there. Proud of Part B.

Weekly Update

This week, the tracing paper fills the office as we explore layouts for the proposed sketch designs. It proved to be a difficult task, with the odd shape of the house not allowing for much communal space, posing the chance of classifying the addition/alteration as being a second dwelling.

We also took a drive by site visit of Princess Road. They had excavated too deep leaving no stable ground whatsoever for the basement, and a diggerloader stuck in the mulsh had to be lifted out using a crane. They had not yet started with the piles, as using piles is the only way to go ahead with the project at this stage.

The 2nd Avenue scheme had been revised, considering that not having heard from heritage western cape for several weeks, demolition of the existing structure may not be possible. So a scheme was planned around it, and we propose new layouts to the 15 units on the site so that the QS can cost the development and then a call can be made as to whether the project is viable or not. The layouts make good progress, alot of tracing paper being used once again to explore the layouts and to not get stuck to a screen.

Weekly Update

Again we tackled the Miller Road tender drawings for units 3 & 4, this occupied us until friday, when we started a new project - an addition/alteration to an existing house to accomodate for a client's mother, so that they could live in the same dwelling but be reletively seperate.

The first step was to draw the existing dwelling, of which we had a copy of a set of plans, drawn on linen, which never went to council.

Weekly Update

Miller Road tender drawings are progression slowly. The 1:50 drawing are to have the same information as the previous tender for unit 2, complete in every aspect in order for a builder to know exactly what to do, and for a tender to be able to give a complete pricing.

Our architect is very busy, so we are doing the best we can without asking too many questions. Otherwise progress is good, as we have the previous tender drawings to refer to, this is an accomplishable task.

Weekly Update

This week we worked on council submission drawings for the remaining units of the Miller Road site. While working on that, it was required for us to make alterations/revisions to the Constantia site as the client wanted a big change made - remove a large portion of the proposed alteration, to allow more space for parking and a more simplified basement structure. In the clients eyes, a quick change, but for us it involves 13 individual drawings and a very complex roof structure with various slopes which our architect must resolve.

After we hit a dead end with Constantia as we had done everything possible and only the roof was left to be resolved, we began with the tender drawings for unit 3 and 4 of Miller Road.