Weekly Update

Greetings,

Lastweek was a bit of a laid back week for me, nothing too hectic, although for majority of the staff here at Nightingales, it was a roller-coater. Many of the staff worked about 3 days overtime lastweek, and yes that i alot of overtime for one week.

I managed to complete all the tasks assigned to me on McGill, Í completed minor adjustments according to the mark-ups sent to me by Annie Cheung. Once I was done with that, I was back on Lennie's team working on Papworth, a project that was reaching a very hectic milestone.

With regard to working on Papworth, the team and myself seemed to have been having trouble with Revit. The program just crashed out at random times. We had to take precaution to this by saving or synchronising as often as was possible, to make sure that none of the work was lost. As this problem persisted, our IT department had to take action, and sent the Papworth BIM (Building Information Model) to the IBI Group for a general review in order to assess the problem. (IBI Group is an organisation which consists of a number of firms which includes, engineering, architecture etc). We recieved feedback from IBI, and they informed us that there were over 1000 warnings in the Papworth Model, which is what caused the program to crash all the time, and it is also what caused Revit to lag. So Lennie assigned me to the task of fixing and cleaning up of the Papworth Model. Revit has a special feature with fixing up warnings, it has a special tab just for this particular problem which lists all the warnings, and with the click of a button, it takes you to, and highlights the problem immediately. This is what I spent most of lastweek doing. It is a long and dragging task to do, but I managed to fix over half of the warnings and errors in the project. Our team have agreed to fix warning messages as soon as they pop up while working on Revit, this will save us the trouble of having to fix them afterward, and not causing anymore crashes.

The entire office worked so hard lastweek, that the UK were so pleased with the time and effort put into the work, that they gave the entire office (Cape Town Branch), friday afternoon off, so we all got an early start to the weekend after a very stressful week. Seems like the saying is true, "a little goes a long way", it really does, goes all the way to the UK. lol I trust all are well, peace and blessings.

Ciao -G