Foundation Work

It has been a great learning experience so far. I truly appreciate the effort that goes into construction work. It is one thing to sit in the office and design and make decisions on something and completely the other thing to execute it on ground.

Udaybhai and team are very competent and efficient at executing the column and foundation details given to them. However, reliance on technology slows things down a bit at times.

I hear that nowadays contractors are so reliant upon TotalStation output that they do not undertake work without the surveyor coming to site at multiple occasions and giving them the markings on site. So far they have visited our site for following activities:

1. At the very beginning to survey the site
2. To give excavation points
3. To give PCC location and size points
4. To give actual column footing location (on the PPC) and size points
5. Pending: Once plinth level PCC is done, to give final column locations. After that, next levels all will be vertically above the ground level columns.

At several occasions, our work has stalled since the surveyor is not available to come on site to mark points. What happened to our good old tape measure?

Here are some pictures from the foundation work: