Construction Technology 2

Throughout the whole semester of my Construction Technology subject, I have learned and gained a lot of knowledge about construction. I’ve learned how to read the actual drawings and identify sketches of a construction project. Our construction technology lecturer Mr Chiew had lectured us patiently. He was willing to explain and teaches us whenever we had problems and difficulties. He is the most well experienced lecturer so far I’ve met. With his patience and helpful lectures, I could understand every single thing he taught us. I have learned a lot of types of elements such as piling, portal frames, scaffoldings, diaphragm walls, foundations, underpinning, partitions and so much more. Besides that, I have learned the different types of construction methods which is very important for us in the future in our construction industry. In the early of our semester, we were given an assignment. Mr Chiew had separated us into groups for the assignment. The assignment is about a study on sites and to write a report about the sites which relevant to the topic that we have chosen. We had chosen piling as our main topic for our assignment. We did a lot of researches with books and internet. It is considered a big challenging task for us. We have 5 persons in a group and we had distributed the work evenly. We had faced a lot of problems and difficulties in doing this assignment especially looking for piling sites. We had searched a lot of sites but we were being rejected and some even ignored our proposals. We had argued and discussed for a period of time about the contents of the assignment. We had different ideas and sometimes we were confused on the overlap of content between our group mates. However, I think that our lecturer was trying to train us to become an independent student and wanted us to learn more by ourselves. In the process of doing the assignment with my group mates, I have learned how to communicate effectively with them. Without a proper communication with them, we would not be able to complete our assignment. Besides that, I was able to learn some ideas and knowledge from my group mates. Honestly, this assignment challenged our EQ. In a nutshell, our group mates were doing great and we were able to finish up the assignment on time.