Tuesday, October 13, 2015

A LIFE IN A DAY OF AN ARCHITECT

Everyday I perform a different task in my job:
THINKING, PROCESSING, EVALUATING, REVIEWING, COORDINATING, PARTICIPATING, INSTRUCTING, ISSUING and the most popular, MEETING.
What goes after that?....MINUTING.

Take today for instance, I started off my day with reviewing the design drawing done by my team member, something to do with fire authority, which we call FIRE COMPARTMENTATION DRAWING...which look something like this:


The compartmentation needed to prevent the fire spreading from one space to another

The elements of structure in Basement floor must be 4-hour fire rated, the compartment wall and fire-rated roller shutter must be 2-hour fire rated and fire door is 1-hour fire rated. The design must take into consideration of all safety aspects such as dead end limit, travel distance, hose reel installation, number of staircase, width of escape route, final exit floor and so on so forth. WOW...really comprehensive huh!

Luckily, we have all contained in a special book called Uniform Building By Law (UBBL) and also Guide To Fire Protection in Malaysia...which we call 'red book'.




I reviewed the floor plans using AutoCAD LT 2014, a special software to produce drawings that can be edited. Anything that I feel like ADDING, RELOCATING, REMOVING, ELIMINATING, I can do it easier and faster, but now I don't do that kind of stuffs anymore.

In the evening, I got meeting with the Client and all consultants involved in the project. We call it Client/Consultants Coordination Meeting,CCM. I was the chairman for the meeting.
It was a good meeting with a cup of white coffee

After the meeting, I walked near the window and saw this...

They said the lizard is the company's logo....COOL eh!

The haze condition in Kuala Lumpur still not so good, whatever the reading is, you can judge from this photo which was taken at Level 29.



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