Life of A Slacker: February 2007

Jumeirah Beach Park

Went with my colleagues to Jumeirah Beach Park during 1 of our off day which is friday... in Dubai, work from sat to thu 8am-5pm officially.. however the bus will pick us up at 7am, reached site ard 720-730, then the 1st bus back to apartment is 630pm...

This is a building opp the beach park, at 1st i tot it is some shopping centre or wat, later i saw the sign then know it is a hospital... lol...

Entrance to the beach park.. it is a paying beach which means need to pay to go inside... cost 5 dirham

Inside the park

Grp pic 1

Grp pic 2

The following pics are taken when we were playing soccer.

while we were playing soccer, these 2 kids came along and play between our field, in the end one of my colleagues end up playing with them... haa..

Next few pics are taken when we went for dinner later that day. Show some of the low end buildings/housings.

Ibn Battuta Mall

This Ibn Battuta Mall is ard 10-15 min drive from the PC yard... a very big mall again...

The architectural inspiration behind the distinctive design of the shopping mall is based around the travels of renowned 14th century explorer, Ibn Battuta, a man who travelled over 75,000 miles during his lifetime. The mall will be segmented into six distinct architectural zones, representing key destinations visited by Ibn Battuta.The six courts are comprised of the Andalusian Court, the Tunisian Court, the Egyptian Court, the Persian Court, the Indian Court and the Chinese Court. The architecture within the Mall’s six main courts is a reflection of the most influential places Ibn Battuta travelled during his time, allowing visitors an invaluable glimpse into the past.

the Andalusian Court

the Tunisian Court

the Egyptian Court

the Persian Court

the Indian Court

the Chinese Court

the Chinese Court, IMax cinema is there

Saw this model which seems like the project I am doing now, which is on the palm Jumeirah

PC Yard

Pic of our off site PC yard which is ard 30 mins from our project site. I will be working in here in ard early mar.

The pc yard with the production line

This is a stock up for letting the facade to rest on it

This is the facade which consist of column/wall/beam

A mock up on the site which assemble each of the pc components

Close up of the top portion of the mock up, shows the connection of the beam with the column

This paveway is build by the workers when they are free as they are awaiting shop drawings approval before they can begin to cast our pc components.

A mock up using wall formwork for casting

This is the pc half slab

Rebar cage for the beam

Rebar cage is put into the mould

The white circular thing is for making an opening in the beam when casting

When the anchor bars are bend down (usually bend up or go straight), need to dig a hole in the lean concrete surface.

A box up for casting a void in the beam for secondary beam to anchor in

The casted pc beams all wraped up and kept moist for curing

Site Photos

Here are some photos that i took at my project site.

This is the site office, quite big

Taken near the site, looks not bad with the sun behind

Alot of cranes and our workers

This is the spot where our morning exercise is conducted.. yes, i need to walk to the site and do exercise although the rest of the time i will be in the site office only

Alot of cranes and trucks

Basically, there are mostly piles only at our site, the piling sub con just handed the site to us, and we are preparing to do excavation and getting ready to cast our raft foundation

Rows of piles

More piles

Plies that had lean concrete casted over it and water proofing done

A big crane used to hoist a tower crane

This area is the most constructed portion of our project. The raft foundation will be casted in 3 partsfor each tower block. The first part of the raft foundation had been casted as in the front of the pic and at the back workers are tying rebars for the second part of the raft foundation

This is the front part of the raft foundation for one of the tower block, scafold had been ecreted to support formwork for the walls

Rebars and wooden formwork

Closed up on the second part of the raft foundation. Alot of rebars for this raft

This is the metal formwork for our lift corewall

Side view of the lift formwork

I saw this formwork at other site near our project, it is a sliding formwork with 2 platform, 1 for casting and the other for doing patching and repair