Date: April 21, 2008 [Monday]
Morning
Time In: 8:00 AM
Time Out: 12:00 PM
Afternoon
Time In: 1:00 PM
Time Out: 7:00 PM
I arrived at the site this morning at exactly 8:00 am. Just on-time. There was nothing much to do till Archt. Ambos, the Project Engineer came and gave us daily task which is to constantly inspect the three buildings. I was assigned to inspect building 2 and another two levels from building 1. My other classmate was assigned to building 3 and the other two levels in building 1.
My classmate and I had a simultaneous inspection during the morning and took notice keenly of every detail of lacking and unsanitary in every room in the building we were assigned. I have observed that most of the rooms in level 1 of the three buildings were still unfinished. The walls have been installed but were incompletely plastered. The toilet and bathroom of each rooms were also unaccomplished yet- some were incompletely plastered and some dividers of the toilet and the shower area were not yet installed.
On the second level of each building, the concrete hollow blocks were still being installed. Level three and four on building 3 were still on the process of construction while levels three and four on building 1 and 2 still have shoring posts and form works supporting the slabs.
After few minutes of inspection and observation of the works of some workers, we went back to the office and were given another task which was to calculate and estimate the floor area of the Sacred Heart Jesuits School located in Canduman, Mandaue City. I was tasked to compute for the floor area of the four-storey High School Building, the two-storey canteen and the Administration Office located at the second level of the adjacently connected High School and Grade School Building. The purpose of the area calculation was to provide accurate data of the floor area of the school building to be painted and tiled.
The computation lasted for only few hours. At around 4 pm, my classmate and I decided to go back to the three buildings to perform inspection on the rooms. There were only few improvements and still no room was completely finished at the end of the inspection.
At around 5:30 pm, my classmate and I were called to the Project Manager’s Office where we presented our respective calculated floor areas. We were with the Site Engineer, few people from Davies and Epoxy Company Representative and Engr. Dennis Oporto, the engineer assigned to estimate the Sacred Heart Jesuits School Buildings and perform a check on the estimate we made. Most of our breakdown estimate coincide with the data provided by Engr. Dakay except for the floor area of laboratories and the corridors. Our data is way lesser than the one from Engr. Dakay. After few checks performed by Engr. Oporto, our data for the corridor area turned out to be lacking. Also, we could have not included some laboratories. After another checking performed by Engr. Oporto, Archt. Ambos decided to let us go and have Engr. Oporto continue the task.
We left the site at around 7pm. Our day was productive enough and we have completed the task given to us. We have definitely enjoyed another day with another smile..
