Week 5, Friday 6/17

This morning I finished the new CAD floor plan and got it sent off for review. We are hoping that the Decatur terrazzo samples will be in at the beginning of next week so we can present the new boards. I finished gluing and mounting the finishes, other than the terrazzo, I am waiting on a paint and carpet sample.

I also did window shop drawings for the Clarksville Fire Dept. I had to check quantity, dimensions, roller shade type and elevation.
I did a lot of organizing projects and cleaning up today.

*Pictures are on BB

*Today completes my required 200 hours for my internship

Week 5, Thursday 6/16

In the morning I finished up the floor plan for FirstSource by labeling the rooms, finding the area for each, making sure everything was on the correct layer. We sent it off to the contractor who quickly responded saying that he wanted to use the entire space, instead of what he had given us, (instead of only using about ¾ of it for a potential other tenant) and sent us a pdf of what was on the first floor and said he would like something like that, which isn’t even accurate because what he wants for the new space is much larger in content and square footage. This was a little frustrating because the guy doesn't really know what he is talking about, just knows what he wants, which is to use as much square footage as possible, to get more money out of the tenant purchasing it. But I stretched everything out so it would occupy the entire space, it will be sent to him tomorrow morning.

*Both floor plans are attached on BB

Week 5, Wednesday 6/15

Today Amanda went over with me what I had done for the FirstSource floor plan. I explained to her my reasoning behind things and she made some adjustments and suggestions then showed me how to correctly draw wall thicknesses and decide room dimensions in CAD. I also added some office furniture and casework.

I also began cutting and measuring samples for the new Decatur finish boards.

Week 5 Tuesday, 6/14

Today I worked on the FirstSource floor plan in CAD. I came up with a couple different options to discuss with Amanda.

I tried to attach a pdf of a floor plan but it wouldn't let me. I attached it in BB instead.

Week 5, Monday 6/13

Since a lot of things were changed after we presented the sample boards to Decatur, I reselected the necessary finishes, and then called Sherwin Williams to get the mix of the custom maroon used for South Decatur. I also had to select new mixes for the terrazzo. Later Amanda and I were informed that the contractor had called the terrazzo manufacturer to order the mix for the one terrazzo they did approve. They requested 44,000 lbs of chips, which the manufacturer said they were out of for the next 12 weeks, well this project will be done in 12 weeks. They suggested another mix and are going to send samples of it. And since the superintendant and principles have requested to see it before it’s ordered, we decided to go ahead and make 2 new sample finish boards.

Later I was given a partially open floor plan was told to design it to the clients requested. It is an office space for Firstsource, which includes 80 cubicles, offices, training room, reception, break room, conference room, copy room, ect. This will be done in CAD.

Week 4, Friday 6/10

Today we went to Decatur to present our two color schemes to the superintendant and the two principles. This didn't quite go as planned. One school color is burgandy, the other is blue, which were the two different accent colors of each scheme. This through them off because they felt then that all the accent colors in each needed to either be the burgandy or blue, which down played the overall look, and made it look less fun, with it being an elementary school and all. So they changed some paint colors and they also didn't like the terrazzo which is a little bit a problem because they are ready to start and it takes at least a week to get a sample of terrazzo made. But other than that they liked it.

We then visited North Decatur Elementary where they had already started tearing down the ugly bright blue green and yellow wallcoverings.

Week 4, Thursday 6/9

Today was spent putting together the finish boards, including mounting, and some double mounting as well as creating a title block in Illustrator and a legend. This was very long process. But check out the pics of the final boards!

Week 4, Wednesday 6/8

Today we had to finish getting the Decatur finishes selected and check them with Hal. So I picked them all out, then got samples in the mail for the project saying they wanted Formica instead of Wilsonart and LG Surfaces instead of Corian, so I had to go through and change those, finding a matching laminate was difficult. I then typed up all the samples on a letter head and put back the tons of paint and other samples we didn’t end up using. Hal, along with everyone else in the office liked them, so I started on the finish boards for the meeting this Friday.

Kovert Hawkins finish boards are black matte board with a title block and legend, and then the samples attached. Flat samples such as paint get double mounted. Then the samples get lettered for the legend.

Week 4, Tuesday 6/7

Today I did a webinar on “What’s New in Revit Architecture 2012” I learned some new things that can be done in 3D orbit with locking layers, and some other new updates in the general programing of it that will hopefully be helpful. Later they got into more of the architecture done in revit like columns and rebar and sharing files, stuff we don’t deal with. I was hoping they would have some info on rendering and settings but they didn’t, but I did email them with a couple questions so hopefully they will respond.

We finally got the carpet and terrazzo samples in today that we had been waiting on for the Decatur Elementary Schools. Lucky the terrazzo we had picked out for the original options match the new ones. I then did more reselected of finishes for the schemes.

Week 4, Monday 6/6

At the staff meeting this morning I was introduced as a new employee, which was nice. There are 8 total projects going on for Decatur schools now and some stuff is behind. So Amanda is busy today with that and I had to finish picking out samples for the two elementary schools and I am still waiting on new carpet samples and the terrazzo to come in.

I went with Amanda to New Washing State Bank for artwork install, the guy that had the pictures and was installing them was coming from St. Louis and he didn’t realize there was a time change, and he was 20 minutes late, totaling an hour and 20 minutes of wasted time which is always frustrating. But the pictures were beautiful and really finished off the small open office space.

I then got a small taste of shop drawings. I checked the signage schedule for the Clarksville Fire Dept. I had to make sure the ASI, the signage manufacturer’s shop drawings matched up with was said in the project manual. This was a detailed task and I know that what I did wasn’t the worse aspect of doing shop drawings. And I did actually have to change some things, which means that ASI will have to send us new updated shop drawings that will have to be checked again.

Week 3, Friday 6/2

This morning I went to a pre-construction meeting with Heather, one of the architects. The meeting was for the new Clarksville Fire Department. The meeting consisted of the project manager and superintendent from EH construction, the subcontractors, town council members, and fire marshal. This meeting was a good experience for me, I really learned a lot. Being a construction management minor I have heard all of these terms before and had learned about them in class but to actually hear them being used out in the field in a real situation is totally different and makes everything real. After today I am glad that I’ve choose CM as my minor.

We had another “lunch and learn” today about adhesive roofing. After the meeting Hal one of the principles had a meeting with the Decatur Schools board the night before, Amanda and I have been working on the Elementary interior finishes and had the options pretty much complete. Then Hal tells us the principle doesn’t want any brown. We have a brown based scheme, and a grey based scheme. So we are starting from scratch with two new options. This isn’t a huge deal, except for the terrazzo, because it takes over a week to get samples of terrazzo.

This is a sample of trying to please clients when they really don’t know what they are talking about, “no brown” is very broad.

Today ended awesome. I got offered a paid position for the rest of the summer! This is really exciting because it makes me feel like I’m doing a good job and that they like me, and also because I was fretting about making money this summer.

Week 3, Thursday 6/2

Today was spent on the Elizabeth Library Project. We have two options picked, and one we aren’t very partial too. Amanda had selected two more carpet samples and I selected, paints, tile, wallcoverings and wall base for each. Then ordered memo samples. I also contacted reps about furniture specifications and such for the project. I then began selecting fabric samples for the furniture pieces that require fabric.

Week 3, Wednesday 6/1

I had speced Benjamin Moore paints for the Decatur Elementary schools, and they had speced Sherwin Williams, so I had to go through the SW fan to find matches which was difficult because SW doesn’t have as near as many samples as Benjamin Moore. After I typed up all the finishes we planned on using for the project on a Kovert Hawkins letter head to have a record, and cheat sheet for the color boards.

There was a “lunch and learn” today and a rep from Wasco Skylights brought in Panera Bread and gave us a presentation on skylights, and a new type of skylight that uses polycarbonate panels instead of glass with a nonogel, or aerogel fill that is 100% water resistant, lowers heat emission, and doesn’t change color, and causes a diffused natural light instead of direct light that can cause glare.

We got resource samples in so I put those away in the library, and contacted a rep that a client insists on using to get product information.

*Today marks 100 hours, so I officially have half of my internship complete.