Everyone on holiday but I am working...
It just not half day but full day on Saturday...(huhuhu)
What a day today...
My face getting burn very badly and it is very painful...(I miss my former face T.T)
Today I am working on the plan...
Revise back what is the requirement for the monsoon season drainage to get more information on it...
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Friday, April 9, 2010
FriDay
Hye guys...
Updating my blog with today`s activities...
What I am managed to observe today is about the slab installation...
Whenever the digging process had finished, they will do slab installation...
A 25 tonnes crane is used to carry the slab from its store place to the required area...
Once the slab is installed on the ground, they will do leveling to make sure the level between each other slab are the same...
But there is a problem today where the slab is not at the same level...
This will make the water cannot flow smoothly and for dry season, there will be a pond occurred because the flow cannot passes the higher slab because at the current state the flow is at the lower slab...So it need to be at the same level to make sure the flow will always continuous flowing...
So the site officer had discussed to put iron rod on the piles while the slab will laid down on the iron rod plus the slab...
One problem settled for today...
Updating my blog with today`s activities...
What I am managed to observe today is about the slab installation...
Whenever the digging process had finished, they will do slab installation...
A 25 tonnes crane is used to carry the slab from its store place to the required area...
Once the slab is installed on the ground, they will do leveling to make sure the level between each other slab are the same...
But there is a problem today where the slab is not at the same level...
This will make the water cannot flow smoothly and for dry season, there will be a pond occurred because the flow cannot passes the higher slab because at the current state the flow is at the lower slab...So it need to be at the same level to make sure the flow will always continuous flowing...
So the site officer had discussed to put iron rod on the piles while the slab will laid down on the iron rod plus the slab...
One problem settled for today...
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Assalamualaikum....
Meet again with my 4th day experience at the construction site...
Still at the same site...
Today, my job is recording the piling blows also...
Its seems like a routine job for me because they dont have any helper to record the piling blows...
So as a trainee, eventhough I am not volunteered myself, but as an ordered from my site supervisor I need to take the reading...
Today, I managed to record 10 holes of piling blows...
The piling process cannot be continued because the extension piles are not enough...
So need to wait for the piles to come so then can continue my job as a pile recorder...hehehe....
Around 4pm, going back to the site office and having some discussion with my site supervisor...
We were talking a lot with a subject of "Piling"
He asked me lots of question on piling to make sure I am well known with it...
Here are some information regarding what I am talking about...
Process: Standard Penetration Test (known as piling at construction site)
Weight of hammer used: 3 tonnes
Drop of hammer: 300mm
Piles: 9m(starter with pile shore), 9m(extension) and 6m(extension)
Total depth of the piling process: 24m + 2m of dolly = 26
Dolly: It is a steel pile used to drive pile inside the ground based on the depth required because sometime the required depth cannot be achieved due to the piling hammer cannot go inside the ground for example 2m in this situation. So, dolly will be used to help the hammer to drive more the extension pile inside the ground until achieved the required depth.
Time required per hole: 5-10 minutes
workers: A piling crane driver and his helper
Meet again with my 4th day experience at the construction site...
Still at the same site...
Today, my job is recording the piling blows also...
Its seems like a routine job for me because they dont have any helper to record the piling blows...
So as a trainee, eventhough I am not volunteered myself, but as an ordered from my site supervisor I need to take the reading...
Today, I managed to record 10 holes of piling blows...
The piling process cannot be continued because the extension piles are not enough...
So need to wait for the piles to come so then can continue my job as a pile recorder...hehehe....
Around 4pm, going back to the site office and having some discussion with my site supervisor...
We were talking a lot with a subject of "Piling"
He asked me lots of question on piling to make sure I am well known with it...
Here are some information regarding what I am talking about...
Process: Standard Penetration Test (known as piling at construction site)
Weight of hammer used: 3 tonnes
Drop of hammer: 300mm
Piles: 9m(starter with pile shore), 9m(extension) and 6m(extension)
Total depth of the piling process: 24m + 2m of dolly = 26
Dolly: It is a steel pile used to drive pile inside the ground based on the depth required because sometime the required depth cannot be achieved due to the piling hammer cannot go inside the ground for example 2m in this situation. So, dolly will be used to help the hammer to drive more the extension pile inside the ground until achieved the required depth.
Time required per hole: 5-10 minutes
workers: A piling crane driver and his helper
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
It`s totally tired when one whole day being burn under sunny wheather...
My job today was to take reading no of blows of piling process...
Now, I know already how to take and count no of blows of the piles...
Moreover I know how to read no of holes by looking into the plan and determine which hole should be piled...
I also had learn new thing for such how the pile is joint between 1 pile to another by knowing what method they are using and what kind of materials are used...
Besides that, the site officer also ask me to count the L-shape rc concrete for him to make sure that which sizes should be ordered...
There are different sizes of L-shape for the drain according to the plan that design by the consultant...
The different sizes are to make sure the drain have slope to ensure the water will flow smoothly...
By looking roughly into it, you would not see the differences depth...but from the plan, you can see which length should have big sizes or small sizes...
My job today was to take reading no of blows of piling process...
Now, I know already how to take and count no of blows of the piles...
Moreover I know how to read no of holes by looking into the plan and determine which hole should be piled...
I also had learn new thing for such how the pile is joint between 1 pile to another by knowing what method they are using and what kind of materials are used...
Besides that, the site officer also ask me to count the L-shape rc concrete for him to make sure that which sizes should be ordered...
There are different sizes of L-shape for the drain according to the plan that design by the consultant...
The different sizes are to make sure the drain have slope to ensure the water will flow smoothly...
By looking roughly into it, you would not see the differences depth...but from the plan, you can see which length should have big sizes or small sizes...
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Hari Kedua (2nd Day)
Another excitement day with visiting the infrastructure drainage system in Prai, Penang. The company is undergoing the process of upgrading the current drainage system to bigger drain. There are about two different location of the drainage system. First, the flow will go through Station Pump A while the other one, the flow will go through Station Pump B. Both flow are coming from Prai industrial park. Why the drain should be changed to much more bigger? It is because the current drainage system cannot support the flow during peak hour due to heavy rain or monsoon season. Moreover, it is also to prevent flood.
The drainage system which will flow through Station Pump A is already finish. Now, they are working on the second drainage system which the flow will go through the Station Pump B. The pump is for pumping the flow from flat land to sea. Why pump is needed? From the briefing, the sea level is actually higher than the flat land. So, that is why pump is needed to pump out the flow from flat land to the sea to prevent overflow.
Let me brief about how the drain looks like. The drain consist of L-shape and Slab rc concrete with rc piles.
Before starting the work, the surveyor will come and overview the place for the leveling process. After the surveyors done the jobs, they will give data about the levels of the drain and the location of the process of digging the hole to make the drain.
Then, the level will be mark. At certain location, the level will be different so the marking process should be done accurately to make sure the drainage system straight.
After the marking system done, the piling process will be the next. 250x250mm piles are used with 21m depth. (will be brief more once I am experiencing about the piling process)
Once the piling done, they will make coffer dam with using sheet pile to prevent the soil from collapse during the digging process.
When the digging process finish, the slab will be placed on the piles and screw them for tightening. Then, the L-shape concrete will be placed on top of the slab. The L-shape also will be screwed to tighthen between the slab and piles to make sure they are stay at where they are placed.
The finishing process will be on touch up the gap between the slab and L-shape and between L-shape and L-shape. The material that used for filler are sika. Sika is one of the filler used to fill in the gap appeared between the concrete.
The picture will be uploaded soon!!!
The drainage system which will flow through Station Pump A is already finish. Now, they are working on the second drainage system which the flow will go through the Station Pump B. The pump is for pumping the flow from flat land to sea. Why pump is needed? From the briefing, the sea level is actually higher than the flat land. So, that is why pump is needed to pump out the flow from flat land to the sea to prevent overflow.
Let me brief about how the drain looks like. The drain consist of L-shape and Slab rc concrete with rc piles.
Before starting the work, the surveyor will come and overview the place for the leveling process. After the surveyors done the jobs, they will give data about the levels of the drain and the location of the process of digging the hole to make the drain.
Then, the level will be mark. At certain location, the level will be different so the marking process should be done accurately to make sure the drainage system straight.
After the marking system done, the piling process will be the next. 250x250mm piles are used with 21m depth. (will be brief more once I am experiencing about the piling process)
Once the piling done, they will make coffer dam with using sheet pile to prevent the soil from collapse during the digging process.
When the digging process finish, the slab will be placed on the piles and screw them for tightening. Then, the L-shape concrete will be placed on top of the slab. The L-shape also will be screwed to tighthen between the slab and piles to make sure they are stay at where they are placed.
The finishing process will be on touch up the gap between the slab and L-shape and between L-shape and L-shape. The material that used for filler are sika. Sika is one of the filler used to fill in the gap appeared between the concrete.
The picture will be uploaded soon!!!
Monday, April 5, 2010
First Day
Today,
Walked in to the office
Seat and waiting
Till the secretary called upon
Be introduced to Encik Sukri as my supervisor
Good explaination on rough idea about what a trainee should do
After that, being pointed to my 1st site project known as
"Upgrading Works at Pumping Station, Prai"
Encik Faizal as the engineer overthere had give a brief explaination about the project
and by that lots of questions in mind come out
All the theories should recall back cause when time passed by some memory had lost
Most of the time was spending in the site office by studied the plans and documents
Tomorow another excitement journey will go on
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