Sustainability and Building

What sustainable materials can builders use?-Macrocarpa
-Using stone for construction
-Straw

What are 2 methods of sustainable building?-Eco logical design
-Bio energy

How can constructers minimise waste during construction?-Take time to segregate waste into the right recycling tips
-Use suppliers who will take back your un used materials
-Think creatively
-Use excess earthworks materials to contour and landscape your sites

What features can be added to new buildings to conserve and use less energy?-Read into more energy sufficent contractors & builders
-Green eco suppliments for houshold items, e.g green lightbulbs

Three Tasks

In this picture Butch and Jamie were explaining to us where the sides and corners of the shed were going to be with the pieces of wood for temporary corners. The string was to make sure the sides and corners were all 90 degree angels and level with the rest of the string so the shed didnt end up on a lean.

This is Jesse and Jamie starting to dig the trenches which were going to be filled with concrete later on. We used pieces of wood to mark out where needed to be dug. The trenches were as wide as shovel width and as deep as the shovel depth too. They were as long as the string we had used to level where the shed would be in the picture before this one.

In this pictures the trenches had been dug and we put barriers up to

hold the placing of where the  cement would go to set as the concrete. The cement was being used to set for the base of the shed as we couldnt put the wood straight on the ground. The barriers were built with everyones hel[p, two at a time putting up the walls, one holding planks and one hammering nails.

How successful was my army tank

My army tank was successful and looked and rolled like a army tank, even though i thought it should have had tracks instead of wheels. The machine gun went well and looked good. If i were to do it again i would sand the wheels better and more evenly so the tank kinda flowed a bit more. The time period i had fitted with making a tank because i did it in the rest of the day i had left. The group was very successful making the toys. Some of us made more than one.

Toys

I made a army tank, using a block of wood for the base, i shaped it untill it looked like a army tank, they had a circle piece of wood with a long sort of cylander coming out of the side for the machine gun. i cut out four circles for the weels, i didnt actually cut them. I used a machine that punches the hole out of the wood. It took me two hours to make and is yet to be painted.

Tool Box

Hammer
Ruler
Tool Belt
Combination Square
Beval
Plane
Chizels
Nail Punch
Tape Measure
Ear Muffs

Whats the maximum amount of timber the thicknesser can remove at once?

3mills

7/11 Carpentry

We were given two project ideas for the class to do. Either A shed for the polytech or a dog kennel. Jamie gave us the shed for the polytech as a class project because it would test our skills more than a dog kennel. In carpentry we have to wear saftey goggles for some tasks, steel caps so we dont hurt our feet, ear muffs so we dont pop our eardrums and we have to be careful with the tools, all health and saftey precausions.

5 Machines in the work place
Hand Saw
Grinder
Sander
Air Nail Gun
Drill