Sem 3 - QSB 2115 Measurement 3

Lecturer : Mr.Soon Lam Tatt

In Measurement 3 i had learnt how to measure a door, window and roof. It is very hard to measure for roof because there is a lot of components in there and also very easy to have mistake.

In our assignment we have to complete a measurement of a building. We choose one of our group members hostel to proceed the assignment. In this assignment, we found out that it is not that hard to measure all the window and door but is just we keep making mistake on miss measuring some components.

In our assignment, i have doing all the window for the whole house. In the building all the window are made of aluminium . Thus it is not a problem for me to measure because aluminium is the easiest type among of all the window.

Those are the photo taken from the house.

Sem 3 - QSB 2414 Management Science

Lecturer : Ms. Habizah Bt Sheikh Ilmi &  Ms. Mariatul Liza Bt Meor Gheda

In Management Science I have learnt a lot of knowledge on management. I have understand management principles and able to equip with the knowledge to applied in construction projects. I also able to develop awareness and understanding of the different types of management tools in the construction
industry and to enhance employment prospectus like Leadership, motivation and others. Lastly, We are able to come out a proper solution for the problem with strategy formulation and decision making.

In this subject, our case study is on hotel industry. We visited Hotel deArt, GTower Hotel and Citrus Hotel.
We are basically choosing Hotel deArt as our case study and used GTower hotel and Citrus Hotel to make a comparison on it. Before we visit those hotel, we have been rejected by a lot of others hotel due to reason of not free or they don't allow for study case study but at last we also able to get to visit Hotel deArt, GTower Hotel and Citrus Hotel. After the visit on all the hotel, I had understand the management on the hotel industry. It is a useful case study for us because it can help us to understand more not on theory but on actual world and also to have teamwork among the group members.

Those are the photo from the hotel we visited

QSB2714 - Building Services 2 (BQS)

Lecturer : Mr. Kam Kenn Jhun

What is Building service? Building service enable users to live comfortable in the building. There are a lot of building services but at this semester we only learnt 5 services which is Fire protection, Electrical supply, vertical transport, air conditioning system  and passive fire safety system.

Basically in this semester my group assignment or case study are at U-residence. We are doing a reseach on U-residence about the building services in that building. U-residence is having 5 of building services which is  Mechanical and Air-conditioning system, Fire Protections in Buildings, Vertical Transportation Systems  Hot & Cold Water supply, Security System and Electricity Supply to Buildings.We also recommended the U-residence some suitable system to have a better and comfort building.

This are some of  photo we taken from U-residence

QSB2514 - Construction Technology 3

Lecturer : Mr. Chiew Seng Khoon

In this sem3 QSB2514 - Construction Technology 3 I have learnt a lot of knowledge. First of all is the IBS system stand for Industrialised Building System. In system , We learnt tunnel form work, aluminium form work, retaining walls and others. In theory Mr chiew teaches us about this all the process and components of the all system.

However there is a different between the theory and the actual site situation. We found out that the actual site situation are not following some procedures. Beside that, the most important thing is we learn about the teamwork between each others of the group members. I found out that, it is important to work well between group member to achieve quality and efficient work.

In this Semester my case study is Prestress concrete. We have been doing a lot of reseach on this chapter and we found out that it is not that easy to form a prestress concrete. To form a prestress concrete need to have a lot of step. Prestress concrete have the advantages in prevent cracking, to overcome load problem and save cost.

This is the photo we taken from actual site 

QSB1124 - Measurement 2

In measurement 2 we learnt on measurement in staircase, wall finishes and floor finisihes.

In Staircase, we need to measure tiles of the staircase and nosing which is non - slip homogeneous tiles. We also need to measure the plaster finished for the horizontal soffit of landing slab. The hardest thing in staircase measurement is counting the reinforcement bar because it hard to read the drawing and hard to understand also.

In wall finishes, We learnt one brickwall is 225mm thick and half brickwall is 113mm thick. Type of brick bonding like stretcher bond is half brickwall and english and flemish bond is one brickwall. We required to measure stiffener, formwork , reinforcement bars, brickwall and Damp proof course. In wall finishes for external, we need to differentiate which is common brick and facing brick because facing brick we required to add Extra over in dimension sheet. Besides that we also need to deduct the opening of the whole building like window and doors. The hardest part of wall finishes would be bathroom deduction parts. We need to careful deduct to avoid double counting.

In floor finishes, the hardest thing is the dropping because i don't know how to read the drawing clearly.

Lastly, our measurement also having a RICS-RISM-AALSM ISCU 2013 event. All the student become students helper.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAAAaqlZY7o

QSB 1714 Building service

In building service, we have learnt the ventilation of a building. Ventilation consists of 2 types which is natural ventilation and machine ventilation. Ventilation allow to cool down a building , prevention of heat concentration from machinery, lighting and human, control of humidity and others. We learned other topic  like cold water supply, hot water supply, storm water management, sewerage disposal and treatment system, telecommunications.

With those topics we have learnt, is that enough for us to know the service systems in a building. Each an every system is very important in order to provide a comfortable environment for the users.Furthermore,

Building service allow us to know more about construction which will leads to understand and knowledge for prepape our  Bills of Quantities and for estimating purposes.

                

Besides that, in our assignment we choose ventilation for our case study topic. We went to visit Putra Mosque for the ventilation system. Putra Mosque is using natural ventilation. The cool air is channeled into the Putra Mosque from the lake. This allow to cool down the interior of the building. Futhermore, The big door size of Putra mosque also good in helping the ventilation, it allow more cool air to enter to the building and discharges.

This is the lake of Putra Mosque

.After that we also went to visit Rumah merah In Malacca . Rumah merah also have a lot of window , to allow ventilation of the building 

QSB1524 - Construction technology 2

                In Constuction technology 2, I learn about the Pile foundation. For examples soldier piles and laggings, contiguous bored pile and basement diaphragm walls. Every piles excavation required a temporary support and maybe need additional support depand on situation.

                
In my Assignment we choose Scaffolding topic as our case study. We have visit 2 place one is at Ara Damansara, Petaling Jaya and One more is at The site Near Taylor University.

This is our 1st site, which is located at Ara Damansara, Petaling Jaya, Selangor. The title of the project is ‘’CADANGAN PEMBANGUNAN PERNIAGAAN’’

This is the Sleeve coupler and it is used for connecting the steel scaffolding pipe or other similar pipe.

This is the Main frame of a scaffolding and it is one of the components of scaffolding. In order to make a frame scaffolding 2 main frame is required.

This is scahe platform and the green net is called as netting to prevent thing from dropping down and prevent the dust from going out from the building.

This is the U-Head jack and the main function is to hold timber beam in securely in place or help to support the weight of the suspended slab.

This is a base plate which connected with the main frame and help to transfer the load to the ground. The base plate also can help to adjust the frame scaffolding into a require height when there is a uneven ground.

 This is the cross brace which connected with diagonally to the  both side of main frame. Cross brace is used stabilize the frame scaffolding, in other word is to support the main frame scaffolding.

This is the Frame scaffolding with all the components are connect with each others. The function is to transfer the load from the upper to the ground and provide a safe place of work with safe access suitable for work being done.

This is a joint pin it is used to put between of the two scaffolding and it function is to connect the upper and lower scaffolding together.

 This is Follow section which place under the suspended slab formwork.

The Follow section help to spread the weight of the upper floor to the scaffolding. Follow section also can be a timber but in this site they use metal as a follow section.

 This is a crossbreed. It function is to Stabilize the scaffolding. It is required to put on both side of the main frame and this crossbreed required to every 3 scaffolding.

2nd site

This is a scaffolding walking board which allow the workers to walk and work on the scaffolding.

This is the save passage way for the worker to walk through it is one of the safety rule required.

This is a wall tides which tide the wall together with the scaffolding to prevent the scaffolding from collapse.

The green colour net is called as netting the purpose is to prevent the dust or object from going out from the building

This is another type of shorter frame scaffolding basically it have the same function as the longer type of frame scaffolding

Jack base used as a handrail to act as a temporary Staircase handrail.

This is the passenger hoist it can transfer the worker from floor to floor just in few second time.

QSB 1813 - Site surveying

In Site Surverying I have learnt the leveling theory and practice. In theory of leveling  we learnt What is bench-marks , temporary benchmark, Reduced level, Backsight, Foresight, intermediate sight, change point and Line of collimation. Those are the term we know to learn before to calculate.

Remarks	Backsight	Intersight	Foresight	Rise	Fall	Reduce Level
Bm1	114					100
A	133		131		17	83
TP1	132.5		135		2	81
Ramp 1	374.5		133.5		1	80
Tp2	123		136	238.5		318.5
B	136		123.5		0.5	318
C	138		137		1	317
TP3	48		139		1	316
Ramp 2		61.5			13.5	302.5
TP4	107		258		196.5	106
D	110.5		126		19	87
TP5	132		130		19.5	67.5
BM1			116	16		83.5
	1548.5		1565	254.5	271

                There is 2 method in calculate levelling which is ‘’Rise and Fall’’ and ‘’HI’’ method.

Example of Rise and Fall method

Besides that, we also learnt how to make correction of misclosure

Remarks	Reduce Level	Correction	Adjusted Reduce Level
Bm1	100	0	100
A	83	1.5	84.5
TP1	81	3	84
Ramp 1	80	4.5	84.5
Tp2	318.5	6	324.5
B	318	7.5	325.5
C	317	9	326
TP3	316	10.5	326.5
Ramp 2	302.5	12	314.5
TP4	106	12	118
D	87	13.5	100.5
TP5	67.5	15	82.5
BM1	83.5	16.5	100

This is one of the example of Misclosure Table.

We also learnt what is the required equipment for Levelling. A levelling staff , tripod, auto level meter, staff bubble.

This is our first pratical in Taylor University. We are learning on how to use the auto level meter to measure the BS, IS and FS.

Beside that’s we also learn practical and Theory of traversing. In theory, the equipment of traversing is the almost the same as levelling just the levelling staff changed to rod staff. Traversing is using the azimuth and bearing to calculate.

The following is the examples of our Practical field work

Station	Angle Measured
A	75°
B	70°
C	117°
D	98°

Points	Distances	Azimuth	Bearing	Latitude	Departure
DA	8.4	98°	S 82° E	-1.169	8.318
AB	12.9	353°	N 7° W	12.804	-1.572
BC	7.58	243°	S 63° W	-3.441	-6.754
CD	7.55	180°	0	-7.55	0
	∑=36.43			∑=0.644	∑=-0.008

Points	Correction to Latitude	Corrected Latitude	Correction to Departure	Corrected Departure	Coordinates	Coordinates
DA	-0.147	-1.316	0.00184	8.32	100mN	100mE
AB	-0.228	12.576	0.00285	-1.57	98.683mN	108.32mE
BC	-0.133	-3.574	0.00166	-6.752	111.259mN	106.750mE
CD	-0.132	-7.686	0.00166	0.002	107.684mN	99.998mE