Intern progress report, 2018

Monthly Internship Report One

Name Of Student: Merdokois gizaw
Student Id No.: TR5017/07
Mentor’s Name: Mamuya
Department: Civil Engineering
Site Location: Sunshine Real Estate 2 Around
CMC

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Week 5

Weekday Activities
Monday I saw the construction of bar placement and
formwork for column
Tuesday Slab and beam formwork construction
Wednesday Reinforcement placement on slab and beam
Thursday
Friday

This week witnessed how the column formwork is tied, the formwork gives it the required shape of the
column by casting the concrete in its mold and carries the labor worker who is in charge if controlling
the filling of concrete in the concrete casting process.
I also discovered some site terminologies like GINDELLA, KEREBAT, STINGA which are the names of the
supporting wood works and SPONDA: the side formwork PHONDO: base formwork STAFFA: the stirrups
TUMBI: the plumb bob used in leveling or measuring a straight line mostly dropped vertically.
In the construction of slab and beam formwork a support called CRISTI in 60cm spacing with a height of
1.50m called CRISTI JORO used for movement.
On the third day I saw the actual work of the reinforcement placement the theoretical concept was
more of limited with visualization so it made it more clear.

In beam

Leff=1/3L

Simply Supported Beam

Deflected beam

Overlap of top bars provided at spans i.e. positive Bars

Overlap of bottom bars provided at supports i.e. Negative Bars

 Negative Bars are provided at tension zones of the beam and used to resist shear failure

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 Positive Bars are provided at compression zones of the beam

 Negative bars; at 1/3 of the length

Place at support of colon and beam
Its preferable that it doesn’t over lap
 Slab is17cm
 Beam30*50
 Corner column 30*30 mid column 40*40
 25cm spacing between bars
 C-25 on plan but on site they used c-30

Week 6

Weekday Activities
Monday Finishing works

Tuesday plastering
Wednesday Partition and wall building
Thursday
Friday

Finishing Work Is Started After To Finish the Structural Parts

Wall Building:-Wall Is Parts of Buildings That Covers And

Divide the Building

Cover Means:-To Keep the Inside Part from Outside Exposure

Divide Means:-To Divide the Internal Space with Dimension

And Different Service. The Wall Is Made Up Of The HCB And Bricks. The Wall Thickness Is

20cm 1st Plastering (Berea Grief)

Mixing Ratio 1:3 (Sand &Cement)

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To Spread By Trowel & Allow and Cur for 24 Hours Before

Apply the 2nd Coat

Thickness 1.5 mm

2nd Plastering (Mullet)

After 1st Plastering Getting Harder, the Second Plastering Started

The Thickness 1.5cm

Mixing Ratio for 2nd Plastering Similar To 1st Plastering

3rd Plastering (Final Coat) FENO

Mixing Proportion 1:3 (Cement: Sand)

Has Maximum Thickness 1cm

Fines Sand Used For Final Coat

Gypsum Plastering Needs Final Coating.

N.B In Those Plastering The Edge Of The Corner Is Keep Carefully To Make The Corner90
Degree.

Plastering of Solid Slabs, Columns and Beams Needs To Make The

Surfaces Rough by Chiseling. Unless, The Plastered Mortar Cannot Attached With the Structures

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Cement screed works; concrete floors to receive cement screed are first cleaned thoroughly
with water. The application of cement screed is made through three layers.

• Concrete screed;
 Applied first to the clean surface
 Has mix ratio of 1:2:3 (cement: sand:01 aggregate) Act as foundation for the
cement screed.
• Sand screed;
 Applied after concrete screed,
 Has mix ratio of 1:1 (cement: fine sand)
 It is very essential for absorbing moisture from the cement screed and provide
level surface for cement screed.
• Cement screed;
 Is the final layer over the sand screed bed.

Has a very small thickness and should be finished even and truly smooth

 Cement screed finish should be protected from drying up so quickly, by keeping

it wet for a period of no less than seven days.

Week 7

Weekday Activities
Monday Electrical installation

Tuesday Labor day no work

Wednesday Electrical installation
Thursday
Friday

Electrical installation starts parallel with ground slab work by installing conduits. Starting from second
floor we observed when they install the conduits according to the design, before slab is filled with
concrete. Additionally the conduits are covered before concrete is filled to prevent clogging of cables. At
site, electrical installation is done for different kinds of utilities such as light bulbs, switches but TV cable,
telephone and sockets are installed after casting of slab.

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Week 8

Weekday Activities
Monday Gutter works

Tuesday The supervisor explained The general work

flow in the site
Wednesday Prepared a weekly report
Thursday
Friday

Project manager

The project manager, in the broadest sense of the term, is the most important person for the
failure and success of the project. The project manager is responsible for planning, organizing and
controlling the project. In turn, the project manager receives authority from the management of the
organizational to mobilize the necessary resources to complete the project. The project manager must
be able to exert interpersonal influence in order to lead the project team. He must possess leadership
quality and the ability to handle intricate interpersonal relationships effective within an organization.

Another duty of project manager is preparing meetings, with different section heads for reviewing
schedules, evaluate performances, better understanding of problems and solutions, and recollection of
resources, removal of doubts, acceleration plans etc… he also briefs to his boss sufficiently before the
meeting between the client and the company representative

In general, the project manager acts as leader (guiding the entire resources to an efficient activity), as
planner (planning within the agreed time), as decision-maker (representing the whole site
management).

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Site engineer
Site Engineer controls all the activities in the site and is responsible for the whole construction
work. He/she makes sure the works executed are according to the specifications and drawings, checks
the construction of structural and finishing works, makes necessary reports to the project manager all
activities on the site, and strictly follows the given time schedule to avoid any delay on the project
completion time.

Office engineer
The main responsibility of the office engineers are:-

1. Prepare material lists for the project and ensuring deployment

2. Preparing payment certificates for sub contract works based on actual quantity executed. Keeps
records of payments certificates related to the sub contract works.

3. documentation
 keeping contract documents and drawing
 keeping proper documents of corresponding variables order
4. Under taking other responsibilities assigned by the project manager.
Sanitary engineer
The sanitary work is carried out by a sub-contractor and the sanitary engineer conducts the
sanitary work carried out is as per the drawings and suggest (propose) constructive ideas if
there is any need to change the drawings

The Contractor
Executes the construction by employing different workers such as Site Engineer, general Forman, and
machine Operators etc.

Sub-contractors

In building work there has been a long trend to pass the majority of work to sub-contractors,
who specialize in various trades, where many operations are ‘packaged up’ and sub-let to them.
Thus subcontractors make excavation, formworks, reinforcement making and erecting, plastering
masonry work, etc. .

The advantage of letting the sub-contractors is reducing the staff needed on the site and reduces
capital outlay on plant and equipment. The contractor retains responsibility for the quality and
correctness of the work and of course has to plan and coordinate the sub-contract inputs, and often
supply any necessary materials.

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In our site there two type of sub-contractor, it is based on payment of TOT

 2% sub contractor
 15% sub contractor (currently 15% sub contractor. More dominant)

General Forman’s

Acts as the agent’s right hand man for the execution of the work at the field, his duty is to keep the
work moving ahead as the agent has planned it. He often has much authority on the site. Controls most
of the skilled (masons, carpenters, plumber…) and un skilled (gang leaders) labors by giving directions
that he receive from the general manager or the site engineer. we learned a lot from the Forman during
our internship practice, even the professional engineer often learn much from him. On many civil
engineering jobs the general Forman is the key outside person in charge of construction

General work flow in the site

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Week 9

Weekday Activities
Monday Revise how to prepare take off sheet for finishing
work
Tuesday Learned how to prepare payment summary
sheets for all takeoff sheets
Wednesday practice
Thursday
Friday

Week review

We prepared take off sheet for

1, earth work;

 Site clearance
 Bulk excavation
 pit excavation

2, concrete work

 For footing
 For grade beam
 For ground floor slab

3, form work

 For footing
 For foundation column

4, rebar take off sheet

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Week 10

Weekday Activities
Monday Learned how to prepare schedule and how to
prepare payment certificate
Tuesday The supervisor gave us un assignment on
scheduling so we worked on measuring an
putting in the measured data
Wednesday How to prepare equipment cost and cost break
down
Thursday
Friday

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Monthly Internship Report Compiled

On the first day i had a general introduction about the site, its work Routine and some rules and
regulations from my site supervisor & a general site assessment by asking around she also helped with
the site plan.

On site, in this project I looked around 114 blocks, different kind of g+3 building structure which are
finished and under construction, from those construction I witnessed three block types based on their
footing column number. Type A; it is the largest which has 32 footing Columns, Type B; It is medium one
also have 15 footing columns and Type D it is the Smallest of all which has 12 number of footing
columns.

The most typical type of buildings which are under construction are B and D types. Then on the next
working day I tried to observe the site with respect to what I have learnt and ask questions to the Site
supervising engineer and also to the site Forma. Main task of the other challenging week was to prepare
take off sheet. It is clear that the material use in Construction site is one of the essential units of a
certain structural element and for these reason it is important to determine the type and amount of
steel, form work, concrete, required for a certain project so that i did it with my group member.

I have also seen the batch plant, it is one of the equipment used to mix and prepare concrete .Such as c-
5, c-25, c-30, and special orders for c-50. C-5 is known as the lean concrete which is used to separate the
soil from the concrete. The rest are used to construct structures like footing, beams, slabs and columns.

The other thing I have observed during my site survey was that the soil type is expansive soil (black soil)
this type of soil it will expand by increasing it volume when it gets wet. I have seen how to replace the
excavated soil or selected material from another place and compacting around foundation this called
back fill. Compaction is necessary because it reduces voids, approve strength [safe Bearing capacity] of
soil which creates safe condition for buildings. After the trench Excavation is done around masonry wall
structural contracted masonry work include sub Structural only. At this site stone masonry is used for
retaining wall which separates the building into two zones and to reduce the soil and water up lifted
pressures on Structural also, the total trench excavation is highly economical they prefer retaining wall
to retain the soil at high elevation by leveling and compaction, so that the grade beam can lay horizontal
on it.

I have also seen a beam that failed due to concrete filling, when the beam fails the slab also fails along
with it and it did fail too.so the measure taken was to supply 3 forced columns under the failing beam at
an equal distance even though it has an effect on the grade beam, when we asked its effect in the future
their answer was that the effect wasn’t that much due to the failure happened on the ground floor the
supplied forced column weight won’t have a greater effect. They also supplied a reinforcement bar
under the slab for strength. Other problem was while filling of slab and beam they were out of concrete
so the effective way or solution was filling the concrete we have until we reach the negative bar of the
beam and leave the rest of the bar for the next fill.

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THE whole concept of this report is to shortly describe and explain what the three month internship
experience looks like what I have gained.

To generalize my report in this internship period I have seen almost all the important things to know as a
student, except for foundation work I have seen the construction of the whole building starting from the
construction of masonry wall then to grade beam, filling of hard core then how rebar for column are tied
how the panels are place then filled with concrete how long it take it to remove the panels and move to
the next step of constructing a slab putting up the supports, cristi, then again slab rebar is ties panels are
placed then concrete is filled the process continues.

I have tried to ask around what wasn’t clear from my supervisors and will to in the rest of my internship
period.

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