Hostel Building Project: 2008

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

pillars for first floor

Now the ground floor is done, they started making the pillars for the first floor.

It is getting more shape now. You can actually see someting on the pictures. ;-)

finishing ground floor

after pouring a layer of cement on top of the floor panels, the floor is ready (for now)

5 floor plates at a time. The more experienced workers that had experience kept looking up, ready to jump away when one of them would fall. And it happened; one cable came lose and one floor plate dropped.

wet floor

where all the blue pipes are sticking out will come the bathrooms

balancing

I felt sort of sorry for this guy. He had a hard time staying on top of the beams because of the amounts of cement that came blasting throuh this big hose.

pouring the beams for ground floor

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Steel work

Putting the steel work in place for the first floor

lay out of the foundation

This is how it roughly is going to look like.
Funny how on paper a building always looks bigger than in real life.

checking the plans

Sami Westerholm (fieldleader Wec Thailand) are checking the blue print. The guy in blue is the foreman. As you see we are all smiling: it is going well!

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Our two kids, Simcha and Ava, often go with us to the construction site. What a fun it is, to play on a big pile of dirt.

The guy on the left is holding the 'electricity' for the man in the hole, while our building supervisor checks the quality of what is done.

Looking at the buildings those people can build with so little equipment make me respect them.

this is all the electricity there is on the site

the whole concept of working effectively has a different meaning here

Protection against the sun

Looks a lot like Dutch cheese, with all those holes.

Pouring concrete 2

pouring concrete

Here they are putting the steel work together that goes into the foundation.

In Thailand there are a lot of women working in the construction world.

This is one of the typical jobs they do.

This man is called Phaset and stays at the buildingsite during the nights. The shed behind him is his 'house'. He was telling me that the nights were so cold, so I brought him one of my sweaters and a blanket. It is our desire to give a good testimony and treat them well.