Internship
Abstract
A short semester of internship at the beginning of a new year was the perfect start to value of what’s coming ahead. As a student in Taylor’s university, we are trained to do projects which are marked and graded by our beloved lecturers. What lies beyond a university’s studies is a working life of an architect who works day and night to strive in this never ending growth of built environment. An architect’s life at work is very contrasting to what we do a university as everything done in office will be accounted and held responsible if anything is wrong or right. A smallest amount of error can make things go real bad, from endangering a built environment or even people’s lives. The experience I got from an intensive nine weeks of internship was extremely valuable and worth remembering.
Learning Outcomes:
1. Recognize and recall authorities’ procedures and requirements with regards Planning Submission and/or Building Submission drawings.
2. Appreciate the requirements of a complete set of Planning and/or Building Submission drawings and the need for compliance with the relevant by-laws.
3. Appreciate a typical written specification in support of a set of working drawings
4. Produce a typical set of Client-Consultant Meeting (CCM) minutes
5. Work successfully in small teams for the success of medium-sized projects.
6. Appreciate the resource planning issues that take place in a typical architect’s practice.
7. Produce a complete logbook documenting experience in a typical architect’s practice.
Objective:
1. Create awareness and understanding among students of the existence and application of the Uniform Building by Laws and similar Building Regulations existing nationally and internationally
2. Create an awareness among students with regards the different activities that occur within the typical architect’s office
