Weekly Update

This week our architect got us sketching and draughting again. I was assigned to do sketch plans for his daughter's house in Kommetjie, and come up with a design which did not make the new first floor look like an obvious add on. Desmond Jackson also finally visited our firm, and spent a long time talking to our architect, all seemed well.
I also had a meeting with the manager of Pennypinchers in Claremont, with regards to sponsorship for the MIP. He was very keen on the idea and agreed to give us the materials we required at cost price, but after seeing the list of materials, they unfortunately had no stock of the items we needed. If the list was given to me a bit earlier, they could have ordered what we needed for us. After this, he kindly gave me the details of their suppliers, who would be able to give us what we needed in the few days before our delivery truck leaves for St. Michaels, he also let me fax from their office.
I made a million phone calls to organise quotes and the like for the materials we needed, and finally got them all to the higher ups. I also was in contact with Baltic Timbers, The Pole Yard, and Michael Sedgewick for the better half of two days, organising the delivery and procedures.

And now it is time to prepare for block 3, all submissions and paperwork to be updated, exams to study for, and a design-build to accomplish.

Weekly Update

After being sick since Saturday after the MIP discussion at Thomas Patullo and then still playing paintball on Sunday, I was horribly ill on Monday and didn't go to work. On Tuesday I went to the doctor, he put me off for a full week. However, I could not rest at home, and ended up going back to work on Wednesday. Work in the office was slow, there wasn't a lot to do as our architect had important issues to attend to and all of the required draughting work was complete. I spent time doing a shelving assembly drawing for the MIP, and asked Rukiya to do the coat hanger drawings.

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CTPL 3-man tournament

This Sunday I competed in the Cape Town Paintball League 3-man tournament. The previous night I had a high fever and was terribly ill, but felt slightly better on Sunday morning and left home at 6am.
The tournament was very exciting, with 8 professional teams and one team from JHB entered, and a massive 30x45m field to play on. The layout was very open, and with lanes everywhere it was easy to get shot out if you weren't fast enough. In total each team played 14 games, and the day ended with a short and sweet prize giving with many prizes handed out to all the teams. I only arrived home at 8pm, and by then was once again feeling very ill and went straight to sleep.
 

MIP discussion, Saturday 4-8pm 08/10/2011

It was requested that I be at a meeting/discussion for our MIP design-build on Saturday, so I gave up the time I had to complete my essay in order to attend.
The discussion turned out to be very fruitful, and I am happy with what the intended design for the school. I still require drawings to send to various sponsors, but the feelers have been put out and hopefully we will be able to receive some material for the build.
After the long trek home I had a high fever and felt terribly ill, and attempted to sleep it off, but only overheated and pained all night.
On the positive side I volunteered to do the joinery drawings for the coat hangers and shelving for St. Michaels, which I will have out later this week.

Weekly Update

This week I tweaked the 19 & 21 Princes road drawings, I had to correct the site dimensions as per the SG diagrams, and resolve the roof plan for the two dormer windows as they took away part of the structure for the A-frame type trusses. During the week we got taken to the first Prices road site, where they where making holes for the 7m long piles required as earlier in the year they had excavated too deep and into unstable earth. I also worked on a garage addition at home.