Week 8: That time the ceiling caved in

I know you are waiting in anticipation for me to tell you what my title means, you'll just have to wait til the end.This week the pace of things were pretty normal, compared to last week when we had to through together boards at the last minute. I finished up the specs binders for Sewanee Inn, one of the designers Jenny had me come back on Monday and scan all the pages we had put together into the computer because they wanted a digital copy as well as physical copy, so I worked on that. Then I pulled together samples for Leslie for her St. Mary's project and then later in the week she had me Photoshop some floor plans. Leslie is really good at what she does, so it was great to see where these materials I was ordering were going and just see cohesively how all the project works together, so I enjoyed that. And Anna helped me Photoshop because she is a pro, it takes her like half the time to finish a project, genius Anna at it again! Besides that a lot of this week was spent putting together boards for different projects, which I have become a pro at working the x-acto knife again. And different designers create boards in different ways so we learned how to lay them out in InDesign and print them off which was nice and makes everything really neatly laidout. We also learned how to dry mount which I didn't know was an option so that was great too! I think the highlights of the week were one of two things. First, Christie called on Tuesday and was having a problem, apparently someone sent her boards to the wrong location in Colorado, some how I was volunteered for damage control of the situation and frantically called Fedex employees to figure out what was happening. Let's just say my heart was racing because Christie needed them to transfer the boards to the correct city that day because they were presenting at 7:40 on Wednesday morning. Thankfully all was successfully taken care of, but it was unnerving that I was taking to a Fedex representative that was in a room with 100 other Fedex employees who answer the phones and look at the their computer screens to track where packages are. Lesson learned for the interns, get your friends to double check the address you put and make sure it's correct. Then Thursday night we went to Post NeoCon! I didn't know this happened and was thrilled to get to meet vendors and see the new products. That was really fun and we got lots of free stuff! Not to mention I ran into some UT grads that are working in Nashville. What a fun way to celebrate design!

This is our materials list. The designers pull it from Revit and once it's ordered and they are sending it we highlight it. It's how we keep track of all our samples.

This week we discussed how ESa present to the client their design ideas. There are multiple ways ESa goes about doing this such as: books, contracts, models, renderings (interior and exterior), 3D renderings from Revit, hand renderings (interior and exterior), finish boards, digital boards, PowerPoint and loose finishes. Depending on what phase of design the job is in will determine which way ESa presents to the client. In schematics it is usually hand renderings or 3D revit renderings,sometimes models if it is a big job and obviously power point presentations in the initial design. Then these are left there. If the company is dealing with a non-profit  they have renderings prepared and leave them to help raise money for the project, they also do this with models as well. In CD's (construct document), they take loose finishes and rendered floor plans and leave them there if the client needs to look over them or if they need a reference. In DD's contractor binders are given to them for reference now and later. As well as edited renderings along with finish boards. The client gets to keep all of these and store them incase they need to refer to them or re-order materials. ESa uses Revit, Photoshop, SketchUp, and InDesign when creating these different visuals for the client. They also have a rendering department that specifically works on hand renderings and computer aided renderings. So that's a little look at how ESa deals with that presenting to the client.

This week I want to introduce to you Haley. Haley was hired last year and interned previously with ESa before that. Haley graduated from Mississippi State University in 2011. Haley is very outgoing and very involved with ESa as well as extra curricular activities around Nashville. She is apart of Young Professionals of Nashville and is also apart of ESa's kickball team. Haley works next to Emmy and is paired off with designer Molly Alspaugh, she works mostly with health care design. Haley is one of the nicest people I have ever met and always willing to help if you need to get something done. I'm pretty sure she knows everyone that works at ESa and she gets everything done on time. She is one of those people that is apart of a million things and contributes to everything and you just wonder how she does it all. We interns also have loved Haley because she was an intern and knows how to do everything. Not to mention she let us help her with the design of a physical therapy building recently, which was very exciting.

Now to the part everyone has been anxiously awaiting. I know you probably think that by saying that time the ceiling caved in you thought I was talking about the mass amounts of work we had to do this week, but I was not. Actually, the ceiling sprung a leak. So Thursday we were sitting at our desk and then it was raining really bad outside and we heard something that sounded like water dripping. And she enough in the hall outside our cubicle we see water dripping. The architects were in a frenzy running around getting different trash cans to put under it and then we noticed that a large group was gathering by a cubicle. Sure enough another spot was leaking, but this time it was bad. This nice man named Rocky was out of town and it was his desk that it was leaking at. Now, this was probably the worst possible place this could happen because Rocky has mass amounts of Vol collectors items. So they cleared his computer off his desk and started moving stuff. While we are all standing there watching the ceiling tile caving and waiting for it to bust. Well before it busted maintaince came in and stuck a hole in the tile and let it drain into the trash can. They had to do that with two other tiles, it was a crazy day and it was also humorous because then all the architects were trying to figure out what was going wrong and how to fix it. Very exciting! 

And of course have to finish off the week with a funny little photo from our comedic relief Lauren. 

Lauren modeling our newest shipment of bubble wrap.

Comments

[Samantha S]

I LOVE reading your blog posts! You always have a funny story and the pics of your coworker Lauren crack me up! It looks like you are having such a blast and learning a lot! I miss you! Can't wait to see you in just a few short weeks :)

[Amy P]

Thanks Sam!! I can't believe it the summer is just flying by! Can't wait to see you!!