Time for a change!

So i haven't blogged anything for last week yet, but there's is quite alot for me to say....
Well, this is my third month working at the firm and i grew concerned about the fact that i wasn't doing the range of work I'd like to be doing as most of my time in the office was taken up by schedules and joinery. After portfolio submission and looking over my log sheets, i decided to speak to one of the directors about my concern which I only felt was right since he was the one who interviewed me for this job. 


I then explained to him what I have been covering in the office and what i still need exposure to according to the log sheets that we're given at campus. He was really understanding and listened to what I said because he obviously wouldn't have known this if I hadn't said anything, and advised me to speak to my mentor who I'm working with for most of this year. Once I explained the situation to her she was really helpful and went through the list on our log sheets telling me when we can cover that... and a change took place that very day!!! Later that day we were scheduled for a meeting with the client, quantity surveyor and the engineer to discuss cost considerations and the piling layout which is to be resolved by the engineer. This was the first meeting I sat in and it was interesting to see how decisions are made.


For the rest of that week, I started working on council drawings...rider plans to be more specific. The original plans were previously approved but along the way, certain parts of the design were changed and that's the reason for submitting rider plans which are the plans with those new changes. Another reason for submitting rider plans is so that when the building inspector goes to the site and notices that the construction is not corresponding with the plans, the resolution for that problem would be that the rider plans have already been submitted to council. I also worked on the plans for that same house where I had to make bathrooms correspond with the bathroom layouts that I had previously drawn up.


Well that was last week...
Ciao for now ;)