Summer Internship Expereince

Summer Internship Experience

In Today’s World, Multistory Residential Apartments and Row Housing are becoming more and more popular. Every person aims to own one of these – either to reside or to invest.  Good Designing and construction of these structures are necessary for the nation to look tidy and be a better place to live in. Therefore, to gain hands on experience in this field, the practical training was conducted on the topic “Multistory Residential Apartments and Row Housing. Everything was practically witnessed and understood in accordance with the classroom learnings.  By this training I learned a lot about the practical aspects of construction process.

It is a vast topic and requires thorough knowledge of Civil Engineering.  The project was carried out in the field of Real Estate and efforts were made to cover as much of different types of construction as possible.

In 7 weeks of training under Lahoty Associates, I was sent to several sites but  two sites - Lakshya Towers and Landmark City, were observed closely to understand everything from excavation till superstructure.

Lakshya Towers, is a Multistory Residential Apartment project. It is located at Road no.1. It has

9 floors. Basement is for parking, on ground floor is the manager’s office and parking for two

Wheelers. From first floor to seventh floor it has one 2BHK apartment   and    three   3BHK

appartments on each floor. On eighth floor there is one 2BHK apartment and a duplex. This

building also has a swimming pool and a gym.

Landmark City, is a complete township. It is situated at  the Kota-Bundi Road. It has 2 sizes of

Apartments i.e. 40’X60’ and 30’X60’ in the form of row housing. The first type is a framed

structure and the later one is the load bearing structure. It also has multistory apartments, a mall

and a school. A recreational area is also provided.

On the first day of the training  I was introduced to the office staff and to the site engineers of Lakshya Towers. I was a bit nervous at first but they all really did well in comforting me. I was soon made aware of the tasks I had to do in the first week of internship. First day went very smoothly and I was quite happy returning home. In my first week, I only visited the Lakshya towers but gained a lot of knowledge as every floor of the building had some different type of work going on. During this week I learnt about services - plumbing work, sanitary work, water supplies and electrical fittings.

During the second and the third week, I visited Landmark City and witnessed the foundation work, construction of pavement, ramp, water tower, plaster work, and learnt to read different maps required for construction.

I again visited Lakshya Towers in the fourth week of internship in order to understand the casting of slab, concreting, and also saw the construction of raft foundation.

Next week I was sent to various other sites like university being constructed by career point etc in order to gain some knowledge in the finish work like placing of tiles, toilet fitting, door fittings etc.

Sixth and seventh week were for acquiring knowledge on the software. So in the Lahoty associates office I was taught AutoCAD. AutoCAD is a software application for computer-aided design (CAD) and drafting. The software supports both 2D and 3D formats. The software is developed and sold by Autodesk, Inc. first released in December 1982 by Autodesk in the year following the purchase of the first form of the software by Autodesk founder, John Walker.

The aim of the research project was to study the various processes and techniques involved in construction of a Multi-Story Residential Apartments and Row Housing. This aim was truly achieved as I gained a lot of on field knowledge and concepts got clearer after witnessing practically what had been studied theoretically.

This training helped me understand the correct methods, which are adopted for construction of any structure. I learned to implement things practically and it also helped me  understand the atmosphere of the construction site. The different stages of construction were studied in great detail with all its practical applications. The project helped immensely in understanding the construction process and also helped in learning how to interact with labors and other officials.It has been a great learning curve and it has proved to be very useful in connecting the theoretical knowledge to the practical aspects of the subject.The practical training gave me the required on field exposure and it bridged the gap between the class room learning and actual work on field. It was very beneficial to see and learn the construction work as this increased my thinking ability in this field and the way of seeing at things.

It has been a great learning curve and it has proved to be very useful in connecting the theoretical knowledge to the practical aspects of the subject.

Aditya Sethi

B.Tech- Civil + MBA

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