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Name : Gan Xiao Ying
Student ID : 0322998
Course : Bachelor of Quantity Surveying
School : School of Architecture, Building and Design
University : Taylor's University Lakeside Campus

Occupational Health & Safety

This is a core elective subject, it is quite interesting because our lecturer will talk about safety in construction sites. We will learn why the risk happen, how to prevent and how to manage the safety in construction site. Even though this subject is not very deep but it is very important because it is related to people's life. If some serious accidents happen in construction site, it might cause death. We need to be really careful about the safety in construction site. Our lecturer also got talk about some safety laws that can protect employee's privilege. Employer, contractors and designer have the responsibility to make the construction site is safe enough to let the employees to work inside. I have 5 members in my assignment group, they are Wen Qi, Vay, Hayley and Lejun. We make a questionnaire and send it to construction company. Our assignment is to do a research based on what are the risk assessment of the construction company. After we receive their reply, we need to evaluate the data and found out which accident are the most commonly happen in their construction sites in Malaysia. We will investigate why the risk happen and how to prevent it. We need to know how serious is the accident when it happens and the consequences. This subject is really useful for people who are related to construction site.

Building Services II

Building Services II is quite different from Building Services I because this subject is about air-conditioning, fire protection, electrical installation and vertical transportation system. It is quite theory and hard to understand. You need to memorize all the nouns in the subject and all those illustrations. In this subject we got one assignment, my group members are Wen Qi, Jia Yii, Yie Xin, Maybelle, Wendy and Veena. We do about the fire protection system in shopping center, we choose Subang Parade as our target. We distribute the work and started to do by taking photo of the shopping center. Our lecturer told us to take photo about the fire protection system in the shopping center including car park. After I read finish the UBBL, then I know why he say staircase is really important for fire protection. There are several laws are talking about the fire protection of the staircase. UBBL is really helpful for us, I should read it in my previous semester. We can know all the rules and regulation about the fire protection in the building throughout UBBL. There are still a lot of things we need to learn about construction process and building. How is the building need to be design, how many meters to the nearest opening in a building, where should we need to use fire resistance building materials and etc. We need to have several fire distinguishes and the sprinkler system to help us to have more time to escape from the building when there is a fire.

Construction Technology III

This is the second sem taught by Mr.Chiew. I am so happy whenever we are having construction technology class. It is so interesting to learn new knowledge about construction site and the construction methods. IBS system and green building really take me to a new world. These construction methods really can help our client to save time and labor cost in construction site. We got learn some basic in last year for the rest of the topic. Mr. Chiew still like to use video to show us how it works in the real life. I really like to learn through video compare to word by word. If we didn't have video, he will show us picture to explain the construction method. In this sem, we got a individual assignment and one group assignment. We need to draw 20 drawings in the individual assignment. I felt satisfy when I finish my individual assignment because my drawings is quite good. My group assignment got five members, they are Wen Qi, Vay, Jia Yii and Chuang Jing. We go to a construction site at Salak Tinggi. We met the supervisor at there and look around in the construction site. Whenever I walk into construction site, I will feel very excited and hungry to learn new knowledge. They are constructing the suspended ceiling. We stand there and record their working process. We got ask them some questions when we are looking at the construction process. I am so happy to work with them and thank you Mr.Chiew for being our lecturer in this semester.

Video Assignment

Measurement III

I loved this subject so much and we are so lucky to have our lecturer to teaches us. Our lecturer teach us measurement in a very details way and step by step to make sure we can catch up in the class. I can learn measurement in his class easily and write down important things. If our lecture class can be in normal classroom is better for us. The table is too small for us to put so many things to do measurement. Tutorial class is better because the table is bigger. Our lecturer will discuss with us the answer after we finished our tutorial. It is very good for us to know where did we make mistake and correct it. So that we won't make the same mistake in the exam. I think door and window is not to hard to learn how to measure but we need to know memorize the taking off list and how to write the description. The rest of it you need to memorize it such as steel roof structure. Our measurement group got five people, they are Wen Qi, Yea Zhe, Elliot and Jackson. We manage to find a big house so we can have five different door and window to fulfill the assignment requirement. We work together from semester one as a measurement assignment group. This is the third times we work in the same group. We will keep the same group in the next sem also. It is so happy to learn with the same people but new knowledge. We are improving ourselves together as a group member. In this semester, the most exciting moment is we can learn how to use the Glodon software. We like to use computer because computer is fast and accurate. When I open the software I felt very excited and I can remember the step that taught by our lecturer. We are so lucky to learn it and we might have the chance to use it in our future working career. When our drawing become 3D, I am so excited. It was like I built a building in the computer. I felt so satisfy when the lintel can auto layout. Thank you our lecturer for teaching us so much in this semester. So happy to know you and your funny stories.

Management Science

I am so happy to have this subject in this semester. All the topic in this module really help us a lot in our future working career. Our lecturer like to show us some short video when we are having lecture class. I like to watch video when I am learning something because they can easily get my attention, I will remember what I saw in the video and learn to think why our lecturer show us that video. Got one tutorial we watch a video of a speech gave by the Eco World CEO. In that tutorial, I learn to take note and link it to the topic that we have learned. In our lecture class, our lecturer always asks some unique questions to us so that we can solve it while we are learning. If you hear you can't learn that much but if we think, then we will remember what we have learned in that lecture class. My tutorial class is on Thursday morning. I will be very excited when we are going to have a tutorial class. I am so willing to learn how to express my thoughts and public speaking skills. In my high school, our teacher got let us come out and speak in front of our classmate. Throughout that kind of practice, I used five years to talk without nervous but confidently because I can memorize before I present. In this semester, every tutorial class we need to present. We only have 30 mins to prepare or maybe less than that. Our lecturer wants us to have the ability to advice clients and improve our critical thinking skills. So he will ask us questions related to our presentation. I felt so nervous and shy to express my thoughts. I know I need to be confident to answer his question but I am still trying to overcome this problem. However, I got a little bit improve compare to the first tutorial and our last presentation. I hope I can do it better in the future. I am so happy to work with my lecturer in this sem and thanks to my classmate that are same tutorial with me. We might work together before. Thank you for helping and growth with me. I got three group mates in my assignment group, they are Wen Qi, Yea Zhe and Ren Jet. It is an interesting experience to work with them. We can imagine we are having our own company and brain storming for great ideas. It is so excited to work with them.