Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Assignment 10B: RUS101-XZBIT (Dymaxion)
Monday, October 18, 2010
Accidents & Bottom Billion
There were 2 lectures been given today, which are on the topics of Accidents and Bottom Billion.
Terrible pictures.
More and more 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.
- 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.
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:
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.

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 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
- 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=.=
But......it look a little bit weird=.=
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.......
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
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.......
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