Tutorial Drawing Week 6

Here's my Week 6 attempt. I think I missed the mark on quite a few components here but I'm still learning.

Here's the actual drawing.
I'm not sure if we were meant to know that there were windows and doors in this drawing.
So my excuse was that my section was 'through another part of the wall'. lol

Tutorial Drawing Week 5

Here's my attempt at drawing Week 5's tutorial drawing exercise. I'm really enjoying these exercises. I think that I'm actually learning something. You can see as the weeks progress that I'm actually getting better at doing this. I'm leaving less and less components out as I go along. This is a great way to learn!

This is the actual drawing.
You can clearly see that there's much less difference between these two than the two I did in weeks 1 & 2.

Tutorial Drawing Week 4

Here is my attempt at the Week 4 drawing exercise. I'm starting to get the hang of some of the terms and some of the required measurements. But I'm still clearly missing many components that are required in the drawing.

This here is the actual drawing. You can see that I missed components such as the blind footing, the starter bars cast into the slab and panel. I also got the idea of the UB very wrong in my attempt.

The circled drawings in the bottom left of the Actual Drawing shows some different examples of capping that would cover the top of the concrete panel to prevent water from entering inside the structure.

Tutorial Drawing Week 3

This is my first attempt at the drawing exercise for week 3. It's definitely an advancement on previous weeks' attempts.
But there's still some work to be done once you see the actual one:

Actual Drawing

Site visit IV: (The Westfield Bay City Flyover [under construction])

Westfield Bay City

Malop Street
Geelong VIC 3320
(03) 5224 2384

Westfield Management Ltd. & Perron Investment Pty. Ltd
Total project cost of approx $200 million.

1500 square meters of concrete will be used, equal to around 2300 truckloads.

Westfield contractors empty an average 70 concrete trucks a day during a pour.

Approx 1800 tonnes of structural steel is required to complete the new structures.

This photo shows the progress of the flyover in the background. In the foreground it shows some materials being stored on-site during construction.

Click this link to watch a Westfield promotional video about the new shopping centre. It also provides a look at some construction areas that are otherwise unable to be viewed.
Video: Inside the new Westfield Geelong

This photo is an example of some of the components of the new Westfield building. Shown here are pre-cast concrete panels along with a steel frame structure.

This detail photo shows some of the connections between the flyover and the building structure on the east side of Yarra St. The steel beams appear to be bolted (or something similar) to the concrete flooring/roofing.

The following photos were taken on a tour I managed to organize of this site.

This photo details the electrical wiring that hangs from the ceiling. Shown here, you can see that it sits on metal supports too keep it up off the ground.

This image shows an area ready for a concrete pour. It has foam blocks to reduce the amount of concrete required and create a level base for the circular bar-chairs (seen in the photo) that holds up the reinforcement.

Here, you can see the blocks stacked up ready to be put in place within the pour area.

This images shows a plasterboard wall from behind. The plaster is placed onto a metal wall frame. Seen here, are small metal parts that hold each of the plasterboards together where there is no framework.

Here you can see you're average workman doing some work on the construction site (posing for a photo). He wearing a bright yellow/green jumper for safety. He needs to be seen at all times and because it is bright, he won't be missed.

Something that is always seen on a construction site: vacuuming water!!!

You can see here, lots of insulation and the ducts for the environment control system. You can also see the metal wall framing prior to the plaster being applied.

Site visit III: (TAC Building [under construction])

The New TAC Building

Brougham St, Geelong

Developers: FKP
An estimated $50 million to build

An artist impression of the finished TAC Building.

IMAGE A
This is a photo of cranes lifting steel members up to the floor currently being constructed. Also seen here are temporary supports for the concrete panels.
You can also see the steel reinforcements jutting out of th tops of the columns on the top floor. It shows that more concrete components will be added on top and the reinforcement will continue into that member.

IMAGE B
This photo shows the steel reinforcement that will eventually be surrounded by the steel encasing shown in the lower level. Also seen are the temporary steel supports that will soon hold up the next floor level. You can also see safety railing to prevent injury.
Also shown here is the beginnings of form work for the next level.

IMAGE C
Here is a view of some bondek used on the first floor level. As you can see the span is huge!!! It's around 5 meters.

IMAGE D
This shows the composite metal and wooden temporary form work that will support the floor construction above.

IMAGE E
IMAGE CThis photo shows the rear (Corio St) part of the structure. As you can see the workmen have offices/tea-rooms and other temporary rooms on top of the construction. It shows that there is a limited amount of space at the site and a part of the already constructed building needs to hold required buildings.

IMAGE F
This shows the crane in place (on a closed road) lifting pre-cast concrete components onto the top of the structure.

IMAGE G
I was so excited when I saw this happening!!! This is a great example of construction in action. The crane from the IMAGE E is lifting this pre-cast reinforced concrete column into place. You can see the holes in the bottom of the column for the reinforcement to slot in to. This shows that a machine can't do everything. There are men on either side of the column guiding it down into place. IMAGE H shows the men in action.

IMAGE H
Shows the men guiding the column into place.

I will continue to update this post as the construction on this building progresses.

Site visit II: (The Carousel)

The Carousel

1 Eastern Beach Rd
Geelong VIC

The Carousel is a Geelong icon. People come from around the region to visit this structural masterpiece.

This close-up of the steel frame shows exactly how this structure is held together. The pin joints on the angled members support the roof frame shown in the picture below.

1. Detail of pin connection


2. Detail of pin connection

These two images detail the pin joints that make up the framing of this structure.

Image 1: shows the connection of the roof beam to the angled member off the column.

Image 2 shows the meeting of all the beams in the centre of one the 'waves'. These steel members createthe shape that makes the Carouselso recognizable.

This photo shows an external view of one of the columns and all it's connects beams. The main type of connection in this building is a pin joint.