Kia ora Practioners,
I have been asked about Heading 3 which you have to complete and contains the siting of the hall, in order for the truck to back in on a resulting prearranged turning circle, drop the hall and then get out again. The Contour person is very important as they not only site the hall but they have to work with the truck driver in that the provide the contour and to the grid and the locate the hall and then discuss it with the truck driver who has to use the same plan(s ) for their turning circles.
I have listed one way of performing all this below. That is, with regard to the assignment, actually, heading 3 is probably the best to do in terms of ease because it involves jut the following;
- Obtain a copy of Google Earth's site plan showing the unitec carrington road drive and the area in front of Building 115 down the duck pond. I have issued the same plan with contours on it.
- Draw a 5m by 5m grid over the whole site from duck pond up to 115 and from the big eastern tree to the big western tree by the pathway down to the bridge.
- Print this off in colour with the grids yellow. Put a line at the base called the legend to the same scale so that you can scale of other dimensions later when the plan has been colour printed.
- Save your plan as a screenshot or snip into a flash drive; Note that you have to save the file on you flash drive in the A3 size mode and by vary ing the % zoom scale in the print commands to fill exactly that A3 size page. Put a title ie group 15 Unitec Site Plan and Grid Base Plan.
- Go to the Printers and print off your Google Earth plan at that A3 Size. Draw the contours onto that new A3 plan by hand in coloured or lead pencil - A rubber is useful. You can do this by continuing the grid at the same scale ie 5m by 5 m until you have covered the area needed to then plot the countoiurs as given. Call this the Unitec Site Plan and Grid Base Contours
- Take the hall plan from the information provided and add in all the hall lengths and widths including dimensions of the rooms (excluding individual WC's), then Copu y that onto another A3 sheet as well,
- Now you have the grids and the contours on one plan and the Hall on another.
- So, using the same scale that you haves in the grids, redraw the building outline of the hall including showing steps and ramps.
- Then simply superimpose this hall plan onto your grids and contours plan. Try to show the hall in 3 locations. That is, move the plan to find, say, 3 options for the truck driver to back the hall up onto. Remember, that the truck after dropping off the hall in each location has to then drive the trailer out from under the hall, missing all the pre-laid piles which another of your team will have prepared as a result of your chosen site, and yet still be able to return frontways to the Carrington Road Access Drive. So, put any retaining wall as far back as possible or pull the hall forward as much as possible.
- You final siting with then have the locations of the toilets and kitchens to run drainage power and water from and to and entrance paths to the front steps and landscape and planting to go around the whole site.
Nga Mihi
Rodney Harvey