One month internship report starting from 15-02-2014 up to 15-03-2014

The building where I am engaged my internship was found on the main road of industry park to
adisumenaharia located in hawassa textile industry.it is a three story building and its purpose was
for super market. When I was there the building was started and its sub structure was finished.

During my stay for 1 month I observed and took knowledge of some building construction
structural and nonstructural parts like colons, beams and staircase from the structural parts on
one hand and HCB wall construction and plastering from nonstructural one. on site I have also
observed the way of mixing concretes starting from batching up to casting including the steps of
vibrating of the concrete compaction in order to have good interaction of the mixes and to
remove voids.

Unfortunately when I start my internship sub structural parts of the building was finished so I
missed the setting out of the site, excavation for footing, the types of foundations used and the
way how the floor slab was casted.

Detail monthly activity report

No Structural member dimension size Longitudinal no stirrups Stirrup

reinforcement spacing
bar
1 colomn square 40*40 24mm 8 8mm 20cm
2 beam rectangular 25*40 24mm 8 12mm 20cm

Mix ratio1*2*3 for beams and columns by volume method 50*40*18cm

Plastering also another activity that I have seen during my stay starting from building the HCB
wall with 20cm size of external wall after setting the HCB the plastering work started from the
first coat up to the final the mortar ratio for plastering was 1;3 with box size of sand
(50*40*20)cm leveling the wall using rigga and fasha.
I have also seen dismantling of the formwork in order to cast the slab of another compartment
slabs using the name called modini with the 50cm spacing.

During my stay at the site i had some problems with the integration of the team from the
contractor where there are no professionals/site engineers/ on the site there are Forman’s that
they have no adequate knowledge to transfer so i decided to see other site located behind sidama
coffee cooperation building the client of the building is sidama regional state from the contractor
site it has full staff professionals engaged on the work site having adequate knowledge to transfer
during my stay at the site i have seen

 Retaining wall constructed for lateral earth pressure

 Shear wall for seismic /earth quake/
 Ribbed slab at the last stories of the building
 Slender column

Observing the above structures with various engineers at the work I have gained a lot of
knowledge of those structures regarding their purpose, reason and their applications.