25 June 2010 (Friday)

We went to PAn Sheng Developement project of 2 storey Terrace House. We were accompanied by Mrs. Nurziah, Mrs. Ima and Mr. Fabian. We came there to watch how the piling process works.

- As i mentioned before, the project use Bakau pile instead of RC piles.
-For Bakau pile,it is important to determine the ground water table as Bakau stays good if there is water.
- Surface of the cross-section will be cut smoothly without any angle to avoid slippery during attachment.








- Piling machine with a 1 Tan Hammer.














- Using only the piling machine, to carry the bakau to the piling point shows the efficiency of using what they have around them.












-Working on the pile sleeves, attached for the the incoming Bakau.

















- A worker marked on the pile, maximum setting blow. From the marking point, they will calculate the settlement of a total 10 blow to determine the maximum hard stratum/ground.

24 June 2010 (Thursday)

-Assist BD department to called on Borneo Group S/B, requesting paper to paper printing of a drawing plan. Later on, representative came to collect the original drawing plan. It took 2 hours for Borneo Group to print and send it back to us.


-Assisted the other trainee to stamp a total of 10 drawings.
-Suspected stamp.

-Update my report.

23 June 2010 (Wednesday)

-Doing the same task as before, photocopying, faxing, distribution of letters, and etc.
-updating my report.

-We went to Lok Kawi Heights with the other SUDC's Staff to send the model house of Saujana Impian project.

22 June 2010 (Tuesday)

-Continue with my structural designing check. Apart from that, I was given the oppurtunity to try out the software "ProCon".

-Basically, ProCon is a software used by the engineers to analyzed components of structure.
-Different with Esteem, ProCon can only analyzed limited number of structure components.

21 June 2010 (Monday)

- In the morning, went to Kingfisher semi-detached 2 storey house, on a joint inspection with Pan Sheng S/B. We SUDC as the land owner are joint venturing with Pan Sheng (Developer). These are some arguements happens during the inspection between SUDC and Pan Sheng as the developer. Since SUDC were the land owner, we were given the royalty in a sum of 28 units houses.

The purchaser of unit 5 and unit 7 came with us to inspect together. There's a lot of defects founded, but Pan Sheng doesn't want to take responsibility, since the liberty period has already ended. Most of the defects are caused by bad workmanship.

Hence SUDC agreed to do all the rectification work. We appointed our contractor to do the work. Here, in the picture, we can see Mr. Lim were discussing with the purchaser.

























SUDC foreman are inspecting for any problem causing the leak at the car-posh ceiling.













-Later on we went to SabaConcrete S/B. This time we're gonna do the test cube testing on our own. The cube we used for testing was not the concrete for any of SUDC's project. But it was especially made for our testing. There were a total of 3 grade 3o concrete cubes. All of them were 7 days old. We then do the calculation to determine the strength of the concrete. It was quite challenging because all the explanation were in Malay.

-Observe how the concrete were mix from a silo, to the lorry mixer for transportation to the construction site.

18 June 2010 (Friday)

I'm one leave for half day. One of my grandmother pass away earlier this morning. so I'll be back to my office only in the after noon. As promised before, Dr. Fathoni came to visit me. We discussed a lot in the matter of my points regarding my Internship in SUDC. Mrs. Nurziah as the representative from project Department, ob behalf of Mrs. Kalsum act as my supervisor for that day.

- other then welcoming my lecturer from Uniten, I managed to help Mrs. Fatimah (Executive Assistant Administration) to print out a total of 100 pages of certificate for tonight's event.

16June 2010 (Wednesday)

-Continue with structural Design check, for the same project but differrent section of structure.

-Assist Mr.Ali Hassan to divide an area in a drawing plan into 2 lots, (Lot A & Lot B). We used AutoCad for this task. It was quite challenging since the drawing plan was a photocopy, hence the coordinate seems divisible.

15 June 2010 (Tuesday)

-Help the Assistant Manager of Business Developement, Mr. Anthony Dumpangol on the SPA document of Lok Kawi Heights, Seri Maya Apartment. He wanted a photocopy of the SPA's front page and schedules. There were 9 house units all together.

-After lunch break, Mr. Ali Hassan again asked for my help, to photocopy the finished stamp strata titles because he needed them to be put inside a file for company's records.

14 June 2010 (Monday)

- Mr.Ali Hassan ( Land Admin Executive ) came and asked me to help with the land title deeds. These Strata Title need to be stamped each with proper measurement and name stamps. There was over a hundred Strata titles and this took my day at the office.

- Mr.Ali Hassan also briefed us with some knowledge on the strata title. He said that these titles came from the Land and Survey Department and has to be given to us (Land owner) to be certified, before passing it to the respective owner.

11 June 2010 (Friday)

- We went to Pan Sheng Development Project for a site visit. This is a 2 storey terrace house project. It is located near Kingfisher Park. This site visit was conducted by Mr. Fabian.
The first section we went to is the section where they are doing the concreting for ground slab.

-Those pipes coming out from the ground are the M&E pipes. As in the picture, the bigger diameter pipes is for the toilet bowl.
-Those starter bars coming out from the ground beam will be the re-bar for apron slabs (short bar) and for slabs (long bar).

-Bunch of formwork for different size and shapes of footing were placed at one corner of the site.

-This section where they are doing the first floor column. A number of column has finished.

-Workers pouring concrete into the formwork using a pale. For a small size column, this method is a satisfactory.

-to safeguard the piling base, usually the contractor will pinned a 4 points offset wooden sticks.

-Then using the footing grid line box to navigate and mark the piling points later on. Different size and shape, depends on the design.
-This project use bakau for piling, instead of the RC piles. Emphasize by the government as an eco-friendly approach.

-This piling sleeves made specially for bakau only. It helps to joint bakau pile.

-Piling machine for small diameter pile (6-12 inch diameter pile)

-Using manual method to bend steel bar into links, for RC.

-Excavator and backhoe, can be found in most all construction site.

10hb June 2010 (Thursday)

-Went to Seri Kayangan Apartment, in LKH to inspect defects on the unit Houses, that were affected by the rain that had been going on almost every evening here in K.K. This was a joint inspection, with Mr. Alex from City Top Sdn. Bhd. They are the specialist in Roofing. Basically this inspection not just to inspect,determine the cause of the leaking, but also to determine the cost and duration for the repairing.

-It was found that the total cost will be around RM400 (Inlcluding inspection fees).

-we can see there was a leak from the roof, seep through the plaster ceiling.



-Improper gutter installation was one of the main cause for the leak problems.

-After the lunch break, we then head over to another unit at Seri Maya block Apartment. The purchaser of unit G-5-1 ha just signed for SPA. Hence inspection on the unit must be done to determine the defects.


-Most of the tiles are either not matching in colour, cracked, uneven level & etc. Therefore, we will request for replacement for all the tiles.

-Another defect here is water seep through the wall from the hair crack due to inperfect installation of window's frame.

9hb June 2010 (Wednesday)

- Previously I've done the structural check design for the ground slab. Today, I will continue with the ground beam. Some parts of the steps can be analized by using ATS software. With the help of Mrs.Ima, we managed to get the Shear and Bending envelope using ATS.

- Did the example display of t he Aluminium, Roller Shutter & Glazing work sample for Darvel Bay project.

8hb June 2010 (Tuesday)

-We went to Kingfisher Cove construction site.
-Met with the Construction Project Manager, Mr. Liew. He told us on the authority he has towards the success of the project.
-Picutre shows ground to 1st floor column has finished.
-The arrow shows the conduit system for the M&E, buried down the slab.
-Those rebars "Dowell Rebars" point by the red arrow is somehow much longer than the other rebars. This rebars will be used for stairs construction for better strength.
-Those bricks were arranged using interlocking basic for porper bonding and strength.
-Picture shows the formwork for pre-casting the lintel beam has already been eloborated on previous entry.
-Service Hole : crucial part for maintaining optimum efficiency for drainage.
-Manhole
-Bar bending machine
-Concrete spilled along the column. This usually occur due to defect/unproper formwork for the beam above.
-In the evening, we went to LKH for handing over key to the purchaser officially. We came there early, just to check on the unit. It was found that there was a problem with the window, in the master bedroom. We managed to called the maintenance to fix the problem.
-workers repairing the window.
-Filling the handing over form.

7hb June 2010 (monday)

-Starting from today onwards, I will do some structural design check. I will use my basic knowledge on RC and Steel Design subjects to do this task. Old manual calculation from previous project done by SUDC was shown to us.

-The project that suits with our level was then selected. After a short briefing by Mrs.Ima, we start doing the calculation design check.

-For the first task, our project was the "proposed Light Industrial Building at Sandakan SEDCO Light Industrial Estate Phase II, Mile 3, North Road Sandakan. Below are some examples of the calculation steps:

4hb June

-Waited for the contractor to take the document.

-Upon receiving the document, those contractors paid an amount of RM400 to SUDC for documentation fees.

-They will be given 1 week (until 14th June 2010) to return and submit their proposal. And each of the proposal, they will attach cheque or RM1500 for project deposit.

-Those who failed to obtain the project, will be given back their check.

3hb June 2010 (Thursday)

-Assisted Mrs. Ima to get the document tender ready. Basically this document consist of the Drawing plan (Building,Civil & Structure, M & E, Developement Plan) and tender folio.

2hb June 2010 (Wednesday)

-Did some folio for Land Admin department, rearrange the content according to the issuing date.
-receive 8 sets of drawing from Mrs.Ima. These drawings was then folded into A4 size.

25 May 2010 (Wednesday)

-Assist my officer, to do some photocopying, filing, faxes, and other office work staff. I also tried to called the contractor at Lok Kawi Heights, regarding the repairing work. What's their total progress, anything short and any more complaint. From the conversation, unit G-5-17 in Seri Maya Apartment has been fully repaired. Now we will wait the purchaser to come and Handing Over key Officially next week.

24 May 2010 (Monday)

It was pretty slow today in the office. My Supervisor for Project Department (Mrs.Nurziah) is on leave. She left us some task to do during her absent. First, I helped the other trainee to mark the location on the grid line as stated on the checklist form.This is a sample of the inspection form given to the site supervisor during the concreting or after they dissemble the form-work. The project is Shopping Complex Darvel Bay, Lahad Datu.

The location that will be check is:
1) 1st Floor Beam & Slab at G/L 5-6/ J-L
2) 2nd Floor RC feature wall at G/L 17-17c/ C-D
3) Parapet wall at 17c / G1 - G3



Both the form above is the continue form after previous page. It is the checklist for concreting. any defects, problems will be reported here, and any step to overcome these problem will be noted here.


Here is the Grid Line for 1st Floor Slab. The colored area is the area where checking for the slab done. G/L 5-6/ J-L.

22 May 2010 ( Saturday)

I've became the official photographer for SUDC during the SEDCO Group Marathon Tournament at Likas Stadium. This 2 days event was organized by SEDCO.

21 May 2010 (Friday)

We had this birthday celebration to celebrate those whose birthday are on May. As usual, before the event started, me and the other trainee help to set the veneu, arrange the chair, and today I'll become their official Photographer.

Later afternoon, Kaamatan Fest.