Chinese New Year Holiday & EPS System

This week is a 2 day week since work only started on Thursday. I had a great 5 days packed with activities and visiting to relatives houses. But the only disadvantage to having such a long holiday is the number of emails and mails that had been sent and posted during the CNY period. It took me 2 full hours to finish reading and reply to those inquiries from the resident. The number of phone calls did not stop even during lunch time....

I am barely able to read up more on the Electronic Parking System (EPS) that Mr Chan hopes to implement on one of our commercial buildings. Let me share with you some basics to EPS.

Common EPS that can be found in most carparks

Components of EPS System

The following is how the system work when a car enters a EPS equipped carpark;

1) Upon Entering; EPS Antenna reads the IU serial number in the car, non-local motorist will have to insert their cashcard into the Entry Station to get a ticket

2) Data will be stored in the validation terminal/ Data of season parker will be stored in here too

3) Upon exit; those with IU will had their fee deducted directly, while those with tickets will have to insert their cashcards to pay for the fee

The reason why i chose to read up is because of the meeting with the supplier of this EPS. Hopefully the meeting will not dragged and we will be able to focus more on the cost of this system.

Spring Cleaning/Painting and Work!!

Lunar New Year is round the corner and i had been busy at home. Everyday after work i had to clean and paint my house. It is the worse week for my body and i will barely survive if there is work tomorrow...

The most draggy assignment for this week is the continuous work schedule for Gentle Reflection. Let me state the things i had to supervise and coordinate with both contractor & owners;

1) Inform and make sure all cars is out and specialist start their work on time and end on time

2) Coordinate the draining of reflective pool water before and after the work at the roof terrace

3) Supervise the rectification work for 3 units and update the progress everyday

Luckily Mr Chan asked Huo Lin to help out with the supervision, i just have to make sure everything is going according to plan. After working for so many weeks i had learnt to include buffer time for work so that the time frame known to owners will always be more than required. This is to prevent negative and sarcastic feedback from the owners.

Next Wednesday will be a company off day, will update if Mr Chan gives me a blessing ( Hong Bao) next Thursday :D Happy Lunar New Year to all my family/friends/brother&sister/lecturers/acquaintances/ etc, May the Dragon be with YOU!!

Lapidolith :)

"Lapidolith" is the a scientific name for concrete hardener. I chose to write about this is because ever since i left secondary school, i had not been in touch with chemistry. This is a study done due to the need to increase the intensity of our carpark area in our estate. In the end, i had not only achieve what i wanted but also got the feel of chemistry once again. The following are some pictures that will illustrate where hardener can be applied.

This is a picture of hardener applied in a big factory flooring

This is a picture of hardener applied on walkway

Basically lapidolith can be applied on any concrete surfaces to increase the hardness of the surface. In the process of hardening the surface, it also increases the resistance to wear and tear and the ease of cleaning concrete flooring.

The nature of concrete is porous hence it will absorb most liquids. If the liquid is oil, it will be hard to wash off and cause a dirty patch or unevenness on the flooring. This is important to the aesthetic of estates as visitors will see and comment to the owner and thereafter complaint will start to flow in as "design flaw". Although we know that it is not a design flaw but we are doing it out of goodwill to improve the relationship between the developer and the owners.

The above is the chemical formula for hardener

In short, when hardener comes into contact with concrete it will react with the limestone in the concrete to form a compound that had a higher hardness than limestone.

After studying the reactions and effects of hardener, i went further to outsource and found a contractor that is willing to do our carpark at a low rate and it will be done next week.

Three more weeks to end of internship and i already starting to miss this job. Had learnt so much more in just thirteen weeks and Mr Chan & Ms Lily had been so kind to me. Really hope Mr Chan will call me back after this internship.