Brilliant video and the quality of commentary accompanying is par excellence. Your video is even better then the professional companies as your explanation is literally down to earth for anyone to understand it fully. I take my hat off for you to film this for the upcoming future Engineers, and the practicing Engineer as myself your truly, who will be using your video to understand the intricacies of the problem and the nature of the job of building the ground work to good standard. Superb. 1: Is the top of the ring beam is the bottom of the ground floor slab to sit on? 2: In the ring beam, the beam face of concrete from the steel cage inside is always 50mm or different? A faultless video. Congratulations. Bravo.
Depends what type of ground beam, but it will be working differently as it will span eg. between piles, while capping beam all sits on piles getting the load evenly distributed to the pile. Capping beam will also be working during the temporary condition - during the dig locking all the piles in.
Really helpful videos. Do you have any advice on how to get into site engineering after doing a PhD? I am having a hard time finding the right position as they all require extensive field experience?
Hi Ali! Not sure really, but probably you have to start as a junior engineer despite PhD (if you want to work on site) and than you will quickly go up. You can also look for the job as a QA engineer which is rally good too.
Thanks a lot Mr.Greg for whole good videos, because I follow your channel, and I think your videous enable me to wonder the Site Engineer. I graduated from Geomatics Engineering departmant, and you know this departmant is also related to costruction projects. Also, Geomatics Engineers also use measurement instruments such as Total station, Gps, Level and Laser scanner. I have a question sir, Is Geomatics Engineer equal to site engineer in Uk. In other words, Can onebody who graduated from Geomatics Engineering Departmant in a foreign country work as a Site Engineer in Uk?
Hi Sami! You can work here as Site Engineer as you really do not need a degree in UK. It will be much easier for you as you actually graduated and have knowledge of measuring equipment. Go for it :)
Hi Greg. Your channel and videos are brilliant as I am also a site engineer in Ireland. Please keep uploading these brilliant videos as you are better than any lecturer. I’m just wondering if it would be possible for you to demonstrate sometime how to overlay drawings on cad to the correct coordinates. Such as overlaying an engineer or architects drawings on a site base drawing. Anyway thanks for the great videos 👌👌
Hi Stephen! There are robotic stations now on most of the jobs, but if not there is a chainman / assistant engineer to help you. In most cases you don't have to provide equipment, you will be working as self employed under the company which already has, or hire the equipment. I have my own kit and company that I worked for agreed to pay me for it instead of hiring. There are also jobs where you need equipment as you're hired like 'real' freelance engineer, so you're expected do cover all they need, but if it comes to frames and groundworks contractors that's not the case.
@@SITENG Thanks for the reply. I understand regarding the robotic station it a one man instrument. But there are lots of tasks you need a Helper like, Snapping chocklines, using a automatic level or holding the end of a tape. I have always work with a Helper.
Yeah, it's one man station and you have to grab someone to help you like Chippie, or fixer. It also depends on the job size as on big jobs there will be some juniors to help you, but in most cases you are expected to do the work yourself. No one really wants to pay extra for juniors these days, which is bad as it's harder now for people to start, how they can get experience if chainperson job is slowly dying.
@@SITENG 😂, 16 years as senior production supervisor at Hy Ten , currently tower crane operator just subscribed today really interesting content and definitely sky is the limit in Uk 👊
Hi Leonard! There will be joint between the liner wall and the slab as the beam is poured 'not in full'. I will cover this on the drawings video as I did not do the ground floor slab there. I believe there won't be waterbar anyways as there is a different way of waterproofing (injections made by Rascor)
It depends on the waterproofing detail required but in most cases, yes a water bar is installed at the construction joint but it must be well prepared. Sika and xypex waterproofing details allow you to install a hydrophilic strip at the construction joint with the right lap detail and based on the design crack width of concrete, you need to ensure a waterproof concrete is placed in those areas to achieve effective results. Like Greg said, rascor has a different concept but they introduce an injection channel at the construction joint with the tubes connected prior to concrete pour after which when curing is achieved, rascor is mobilised to site to complete the injection process and thats it.
