Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Assignment 10B: RUS101-XZBIT (Dymaxion)

This assignment is given by Mr. Rusli, we were asked to make a dymaxion with 20 faces full of our pictures.



Photostat the outline of the dymaxion globe.


Make lines using pencil on the photostated paper for trace.


Finished trace on the card board.


Cut it out.


Make line using steel ruler.


Fold the edges.


Globe done.


Laser printed picture on 100 gsm paper.


Double sided tape is used to paste the pictures.


Write details on one face of the globe.


My dymaxion globe is totally done^^
Intention: Make our own dymaxion globe.
Actor: Me
Act: Trace, cut, paste...
Rule: The size of the globe must same as the size given.
Product: My dymaxion globe
Place: Exhibit in Studio 100.


Monday, October 18, 2010

Accidents & Bottom Billion

There were 2 lectures been given today, which are on the topics of Accidents and Bottom Billion.



  • Traffic accidents in Malaysia have been increasing at the average rate of 9.7% per annum over the last 3 decades.
  • Road accidents seem to be like a Malaysian national culture.
  • From a survey, women seem to be drive more aggressively than men.
  • Human error is the main reason for the road accidents to happen.

During the lecture, Dr. Llias asked all the late comers to sit on the floor in front of the class. He was very angry because they are disturbing the lecture.

Terrible pictures.


More and more late comers.


Dr. Llias asked us to throw paper to all the late comers.


This is the first time I heard the word "Bottom Billion", it refers to the billion of people which live in poor life.
After the lectures, En. Wan asked us how we can relate the accidents and the Bottom Billion to APEX. He said, we should avoid the accident along the APEX journey so that we will not be the Bottom Billion. By the way, he wanted us to relate the Bottom Billion to the "one eye". Is this all been planed?
*Think More

Assignment 9B: 1500 words paper

This task actually asked us to expand the 300 words abstract that we done before.
In this 1500 words, we write out more detail on:
  • roles/responsibilities of QS
  • job opportunities of QS
  • QS with related to envinronment
  • what can QS do to spread the facts to the world
  • how to spread
  • what to spread
  • etc

This task made me know more about my major and my role in my field.

Monday, October 11, 2010

Dome Assembly(11/10/10)

Here come the time to construct the big dome!!!
The dome theoretical should be build upside down, but we will try to build it from the bottom up
En. Wan and Ar. Najib were there to conduct the construction.
At last the construction fail due to the problem on the struts.
We were asked to fix all of our struts in order to construct the dome up.








Assignment 9A: Abstract


In group of 5 according to major, we are first asked to write an 300-word abstract on the topic given.
In my group, there are Chin Wei Yong, Gan Kai Sen, Loh Chin Bok and Yvonne Lai Hui Ying.
As students of QS, we are given topic "Spread factual info to the world".
Before start over our task, we go to see our studiomaster, Dr. Mastura to get the guideline for this project.
Here is our abstract:
Quantity Surveyors are the professionals working in the construction industry concerning the cost of projects. They estimate the project cost by analyzing the architects and endineers designs to make sure the project does not over budgeted. They advised architects and engineers on the cost implication of their design.
As far as what we know, some building materials are expensive and this further increase the product price. As a customer, we'll not be happy when the price of a house is expensive. So, in order to prevent this from happening, we can reduce the cost of production.
This can be done by replace the construction material with bamboo. Bamboos are cheap as it can be obtain in large amount. It's sustainable and is a strong building material. It required low maintenance because it's ery durable. Bamboo can be use for building the component of the house like the door. The most suitable bamboo os bamboo from India as it grows individually which make harvesting a lot easier.
Quantity surveyor need to be strict in choosing the materials. In Japan, they used paper to build temporary school buildings for the earthquake victims. Quantity surveyor has the responsibility to know all this low cost materials and let everyone especially the architects and engineers to know it. They must know about this so that they can design their building with lower cost and sustainable.
How it can be done? Conferences and talks throughout the world can spread the knowledge. For example, the Bamboo Interest Group. RICS is also one of the organisation that can spread all this latest info. Quantity surveyors are not just namely cutting the cost of the project but we must aware of the nature as well. We need to have knowledge to enable us to provide better future to the human being.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Assignment 8B: Report on Big Talk

4 Oct 2010, A discussion about BIG(Bamboo Interest Group) on "APEX leap to 2012".


En. Wan as the head of BIG explain about what BIG is all about. Most of the information can be get on BIG's website: http://www.hbp.usm.my/1b/buluh/

En. Wan used and emphasized model of production(intention, actor, act, rule, product, place) and 3P(people, principle, place) in his talk.


En. Wan said that although we don't have money, but we have priciple.


2012 logo by En. Wan.


Mahram shared her experience and her change during undergo RUS101.




There are few things to touched in this discussion:
  • Bamboo is a fast-growing plant which can grow up to 1 meter in 24 hours.
  • Actually there are about 10% of our forest is bamboo.
  • We need engineers to help in the process of havest, where it is difficult to access the old bamboo that surrounded by new bamboo which grow at the outside layer of bamboo cluster.
  • We need engineers too to perserve the bamboo.
  • The role of BIG in the contribution to APEX program is that we will never follow others, but lead.
  • Bamboo can be used in medical field, for example, to cure Epilepsy.

According to En.Wan, there are people who not willing to see us to build up our big dome. I wonder why they do so. Maybe because they cannot accept the reality of disaster 2012 or what, I don't know. What I know is that I will never let them set us down. They will never be the reason for us to stop working.

*Failure is not an option

*We are who we are waiting for


Assignment 8A: Big Dome (part) Assembly

Time to assemble part of our struts!!!(section 3)
But......it look a little bit weird=.=

Connect the struts using bolt and nut


Blood!!! Its nothing...since this is not the first time...for this project...


Hurm....like this...like that...


Change our structure after Mr 1B said it must be upright



Sunday, October 3, 2010

Assignment 7: Ibu Construction

Intention : Make the struts for the big dome
Actor: All RUS101 students
Act: Cut the bamboo according to size and put on the connectors on both ends of the bamboo strut
Rule: The length of bamboo strut must be accurate and the connectors must be connect tightly to the strut
Product: Struts with connectors for the bid dome
Place: School of HBP, Bamboo site


I thought it was a simple project...then.......

Mr. WanB brief about the task given

Ladies first to choose the strut that need to be done


The length of the strut of each strut, I'm in C which is 2.503m long


Choose the bamboo


Cut it in length that we want


Strut is ready for further process


Take the bamboo to School of HBP


Explanation by X-man


Reduce diameter of the end of the strut to fix in the connector


Cut the pipe for our connector


Wait for our turn to cut the pipe


Burn the pipe

Make the part of the connector flat


Make hole on the connector

Before we fix in the connectors, we just know that the length given is suppose to be the length from the hole to hole of the connectors but not the bamboo strut's length. So....we need to correct the length of our bamboo strut again.

At last, the struts done