MY EVERLASTING EXPERIENCE AT ANTRIKSH

From where to start I mean after spending 6 weeks at construction site I am really feeling like I  have done something fruitful. Training session was just awesome. I really feel that training is an important part of engineering and is important for all the experience we came across during the training session. So I did my summer internship at ANTRIKSH ENGINEERS CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION. My project during the internship was construction of non-tower basement slabs and raft foundation.

Previously I even don’t know what this non-tower means but on the very first day of my training my industry guide told me and explained me in brief about the project. First day was very interesting because there was a little of work for me I was treated like a new student who joined her college/school recently and everyone was introducing me with the project. The project was about for 1600crores. Actually it was a residential building construction whose basement is to be constructed under my project. Rest interiors of the flats are to be done. There was a system of attendance over there although I get to know about that system at the end of the training but each employee, worker or any other have to mark his/her attendance over there.

During the first week of my training my industry guide asked me about my learning experience in the college. I tried really hard to implement all my bookish knowledge practically at site. During 1^st week I was given the architect plan of the project and my guide explained me the whole drawing and after explaining he use to give me drawings of another tower and asked me to explain that to him. That is a kind of testing that whether I am getting all the things and not just nodding my head.

Then the excavation was done that took about one week and during this week my guide showed me the towers construction. This was the knowledge that we get only at the construction site that is the material or thing called ‘murga jalli’ in layman’s language, used when the wall cracked, the special kind of coating done on the wall for purpose of water proofing, all such things are not written in the books these are the one which one’s find at the site only. I find really interesting in learning such things from my guide.  

I saw the working of the batching plant and various other instruments. Then for leveling I was aware about the dumpy level only but after doing work I get to know about autolevel which is another instrument used for this purpose. Then my guide allotted me work of construction of boundary wall. I enjoyed that work thoroughly. For that firstly I have to mark points for the boundary line and that is done by theodolite, already used by me during my surveying lab in college. Then I instructed the workers what to do and what not, at that moment I really feel like I am a civil engineer like a head of everybody who knows everything.

At construction site I was instructed to wear shoes and helmet that is necessary for protection. I learned how to make columns, where to use round one and where to use the square one, construction of raft foundation, stirrups, reinforcement, and all those things that we have only studied in college but haven’t done practically. All the calculations that we have done we applied at the site and felt the difference the manipulations done at the site.

My industry guide helped me a lot throughout my training session. My project also includes that mechanical basement which will be constructed soon and my guide promised me that he’ll inform me. So I am really looking forward for that construction to take place and I visit the site again. I guess that 6 weeks experience can’t be expressed in just one single post. So at last I would say that I enjoyed my training and it was a great learning experience in ANTRIKSH ENGINEERS CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION.

Neha Aggarwal

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