My experience during week three at Novus.

 

Monday, Jan. 27th

• Weekly Staff meeting at 8:30 A.M. Discussed associate’s breakfast from Friday morning where the Principals, associates, and overall management team discussed the atmosphere of the office and things to improve on.
• Worked on Enlarged plans & Elevations of Hematology Project.

1 hrs – General Overhead – Weekly Meeting – AXP: Practice Management

1 hrs – General Overhead –  Revit tutorials – AXP Practice management

2 hrs – Hematology – AXP Project Development & Documentation

4 AXP hrs total

 

Tuesday, Jan. 28th

• Continued working on Enlarged plans & Elevations of Hematology Project.
• Began working on Dimension Plan, and Ceiling Plan.
• QC meeting with Josh, Ashley, Lee Ann and myself. Discussed organization of the central cluster of rooms in the clinic and attempted to revise the exam room to be a more common configuration like the others. The curtained, semi-isolated rooms had differing widths and ultimately wasn’t working in relation to the hand washing stations, hospitality storage, and nurse’s station millwork. This brought up the discussion of trying to align the ceiling grid and the curtain mounting tracks. Changing the sizing would make uneven tiling or mean the curtain tracks would mis-align with our existing windows. Although the curtain rooms are presumed ‘temporary’ until later phasing warrants more space for permanent exam rooms, we want the solution to not look ‘temporary’ and look elegant and give the client the best organization as possible.

.5 hrs – General Overhead 

.5 hrs – General Overhead –  Revit tutorials – AXP Practice management

4 hrs – Hematology – AXP Project Development & Documentation

5 hrs total – 4.5 AXP hours

 

Wednesday, Jan. 29th

• Weekly meeting with Medley/Worship/Healthcare team. Discussed meeting structures, staff meetings vs. team meetings. Feedback by non-team leaders and project managers was encouraged as part of the office wide effort to boost work culture.
• Continued working on dimension plan, relocating and straightening wall tags, room tags, etc.
• Lunch & Learn – Luke presented IBC Chapter 10: Means of Egress. Great presentation and very informative on the process of navigating that section of the IBC. Very enthusiastic presenter.

1 hrs – General Overhead – Weekly Meeting – AXP: Practice Management

1 hrs – General Overhead –  Revit tutorials – AXP Practice management

2 hrs – Hematology – AXP Project Development & Documentation

4 AXP hrs total

 

Thursday, Jan. 30th

• Continued working on dimension plan, relocating and straightening wall tags, room tags, etc.
• Met with Lee Ann to discuss red-lines and progress.

1.5 hrs – General Overhead –  Meetings – AXP: Practice Management

.5 hrs – General Overhead –  Revit tutorials – AXP Practice management

2 hrs – Hematology – AXP Project Development & Documentation

4 AXP hrs total

 

Reflection:

I enjoyed our Monday morning meeting where the managing principals informed the teams on their discussions from their associate’s breakfast. This began a discussion on workplace ethic, atmosphere, and perception of the company. The whole staff was invited to discuss their thoughts on meetings and the company wide survey to gain insight on how everyone is feeling about their jobs, workplace, and if they feel they are working towards their personal goals. I have a general idea of what I want as a career, what I want as an employee, and what my goals are. But, chances like these to hear what is important to my colleagues and mentors is invaluable in helping me craft a better idea on how to be a contributing member of a firm. I will eventually reach a point in my career when others will really rely on my experience and input on tough topics, like status of the firm.

 

My experience during week Four at Novus.

 

Monday, Feb. 3rd

• Weekly Staff meeting at 8:30 A.M. Typical discussions.
• Continued working on the CD drawing set. Picking up red-lines.
• I spend small portions of my days consulting with Andrew on how to do things in revit that I need to show in the drawing set.

1 hrs – General Overhead – Weekly Meeting – AXP: Practice Management

1 hrs – General Overhead –  Revit tutorials – AXP Practice management

2 hrs – Hematology – AXP Project Development & Documentation

4 AXP hrs total

 

Tuesday, Feb. 4th

• Continued working on the CD drawing set. Picking up red-lines.

.25 hrs – General Overhead 

3.75 hrs – Hematology – AXP Project Development & Documentation

4 hrs total – 3.75 AXP hours

 

Wednesday, Feb. 5th

• Continued working on the CD drawing set. Picking up red-lines.
• Weekly meeting with Medley/Worship/Healthcare team.

1 hrs – General Overhead – Weekly Meeting – AXP: Practice Management

.5 hrs – General Overhead –  Revit tutorials – AXP Practice management

2.5 hrs – Hematology – AXP Project Development & Documentation

4 AXP hrs total

 

Thursday, Feb. 6th

• Continued working on the CD drawing set. Picking up red-lines.

1.5 hrs – General Overhead 

.5 hrs – General Overhead –  Revit tutorials – AXP Practice management

2 hrs – Hematology – AXP Project Development & Documentation

4 hrs total – 2.5 AXP hrs

 

Reflection:

I think this week was just average. Nothing too exciting happened and I mainly focused on picking up the red-lines of the Hematology set. I’m not unfamiliar with red-line work in my short professional career and being an intern sometimes means just putting together drawing sets so that I can build my familiarity.