Industry Placement: Day Four

29th March 2012

As aforementioned in my last post; I had the morning to draw up a steel struture being used to life two pieces of glass onto a roof using a crane. I drew - it was checked several times by members of the production team and after several draughts (see folder) I was able to hand it to the metalworkers for construction.

Having something I have drawn being made for an important client is quite exciting - and also having someone checking over my drawings is very useful - telling me where I can improve etc.

The afternoon involved a site visit at a top secret location in London for a major sports event happening over the summer. Mysterious.

The Project Manager and myself went into Westfields in Stratford for a burrito. It was very nice and I had rice, chicken, sour cream and guacamole in mine. I went for the medium strength salsa - although in retrospect I think I should have gone for the hot. After lunch I donned my steel toe caps, a hard hat and my hi-vis jacket and sauntered onto the building site located not far from where we had lunch.

I can't say much about what was being built on site - but it was high up and everyone was very busy. There was a lift and everything. I was introduced to lots of members of the construction crew and they were all very nice. I sat in with the Project Manager on a few meetings - but also did some surveying of the site (laser measurers are very exciting!) and the boys also roped me in to laying some oak wood laminate flooring. There was a continued faff with the AC unit cassette as the one that was deemed to be the correct one was actually twice the size of the one we had back at Mitcham and would not have fit.

The View

The view

Oak laminate

This was fun...!

Cisco House

Where the 360 cinema is going

Tube tunnel

Site

Afterwards we got an ice-cream and journeyed back to Mitcham to end the day.

I really liked going out onto site as I had been looking at technical drawings and pieces of scenery all week and it was good to be able to put them into context and see where they were going. There is a plan for me to go on site with the Project Manager next week to act as his assistant to [hopefully] make his job easier.