surveying internship report

Department of Civil Technology

Written By: Ahmed Zakaria Hosting Company:

Summer Internship Report

Ahmed Zakaria

BS Civil Technology



INTERNSHIP SUPERVISOR: Engr. Ahmed Yahya

AUTHOR: Ahmed Zakaria

(670-2013)

Hosting Organization: Al-Haramain Company of Commerce

and Contracting.

Commencement Date: August 4, 2014

Completion Date: August 24, 2014

Approved By:

Name of supervisor: _____________

Signature:

Name of mentor: _____________

Signature:

Hosting company stamp



ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to thank Al-Haramain Company of Commerce and

Contracting for giving me the opportunity to undertake my three

week internship in their working area. I would like to convey my

heartiest thanks to site engineer Rustie and the project manager

Engr. Ahmed Yahya for their immense support and cooperation

which made this experience very learning and worthwhile.

Dated: August 25, 2014



List of table

Table 1 Road profile Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 11

Table 2

List of figures

Figure 1 Al haramain Company Profile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 04

Figure 2 AL haramain Company Headquarter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 05

Figure 3 Flow in the section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 07

Figure 4 Asphalt in process with the asphalt paver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Figure 5 Compaction of Asphalt with rubber roller and steel roller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Figure 6 Curb stone work in process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Figure 7 Using auto level for leveling the sub grade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Figure 8 Grader use to level the sub grade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Figure 9 Sandstorm in wadi al shaqra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Figure 10 Wadi al shaqra area where road will be construct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Figure 11 Excavation is in process. bulldozer cutting extra material. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 14

Figure 12 Grading work is in process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Figure 13 leveling the surface for framework of concrete. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Figure 14 final concrete, making foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 15

Figure 15 Installation of filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 15

Figure 16 Crusher plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Figure 17A Crusher and the cabin based control room . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 16

Figure 17B Control room (inside view) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 16

Figure 18 The cone crusher and the ramp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .17

Figure 19 Screen done in this part of the plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 17

Contents

Chapter one



1 Introduction of the company 04

Chapter two

2 Over all internship experience 06

Chapter three

3 Materials and methods

3.1 Project: Souq al makhwa road asphalt 10

3.2 Project: Sanaia Link Road 11

3.3 Project: Wadi al shaqra link road 12

Chapter Four

4 Visit of Crusher Plant

4.1 Making foundation for filter 15

4.2 Plant briefing 16

5 Reference 17



Chapter one

1. Introduction of the company

Al Haramain Company is a hundred percent Saudi company owned by Sheikh Ibrahim

Abdul Rahman Al Howaish and partner.

The company has a proven track record of excellence and reliability in all types of civil

engineering projects.

In the public sector, Al Haramain Company has furnished the Ministry of Transport,

Ministry of Defense and Aviation, Ministry of Rural Affairs, Ministry of Education with

the quality, craftsmanship, and professionalism they have come to expect. In addition to

the public work, Al Haramain Company has provided other civil engineering services for

various private sectors.

Al Haramain Company recognizes the importance of being one of the voices in civil construction here in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The company is committed to provide service and a quality product to our customers and building long lasting relationship with both the public and private sectors we work with.

Al Haramain Company is proud to have been at the fore-front of the rapid develpment in the Kindom whose growth has been due to en enlightened and forward looking government.

1.1 Their specific areas of expertise include.

1. Expressways, Highways, Arterials, and Local Roads.

2. Bridges and Fly-overs.

3. Tunnels.

4. Hydraulic Structures, Canals, and Culverts.

5. Runways.

6. Embankments.

Construction of roads, highways, runways, and airstrips. Construction of bridges, tunnels, and hydraulic structures. Construction of retaining walls, and slope protection. Rock excavation and slope stabilization. Surface treatment of asphalted pavement. Maintenance and rehabilitation of roads and bridges. Supply of aggregate, ready-mix concrete, and hot mixed asphalt. Embankments.

Some of the notable works of the company includes:



Road Construction

Client: Ministry of Communication

1. Afeef - Taif Road

2. Taif - Atawla Road

3. Taif - Afeef Road

4. Mahyl - Shugayg Road

5. Tihama - As Sham Road

6. Taif Roads

7. Makkah Roads

8. Al Baha Roads

9. Abha Roads

10. Jizan Roads

11. Jizan - Tawal Road

12. Sabya - Shugayg Road

13. Taif - Al Baha Road

14. Taif - Makkah Road

15. Tabuk - Qulaiba Road

Client: Ministry of Municipalities and Rural Affairs

1. Adam 2. Al Alawa

3. Al Baha 4. Al Lith

5. Aps 6. Dan

7. Ghumaygha 8. Al Makhwah

9. Mudayleef 10. Qilwah

11. Qunfidah 12. Tabuk

13. Taif 14. Turabah

15. Thuraiban

STRUCTURE CONSTRUCTION:

Client: Ministry of Communication

1. Road No. 59, Turabah - Abu Rakah Road

22 Bridges:

Number of Span: 2 ~ 16

Length of Span: 7.35m ~ 14.7m

Total Length: 22.05m ~ 235.20m

2. FR No. 20, Bani Salim - Bilad Thimala Road

26 Bridges:




Length of Span: 15.00m


3. FR No. 34, Nabir - Qalwah - Makhwah Road

25 Bridges:




4. Makkah - Al Darb Road (Al Qunfidah, 61/C-2)

2 Bridges:

Number of Span: 34 & 40


Total Length: 530.40m & 624.00m

5. Thaqeef - Bilad - Zahran Road

2 Bridges:

Number of Span: 6 & 4


Total Length: 90.00m & 60.00m

a. Bridge Maintenance

Various Location


Length of Span: 15.60


b. Bridge Construction

Client: Ministry of Municipalities and Rural Affairs

Various LocationNumber of Span: 2 ~ 48



Box Culvert Construction

Client: Ministry of Communication Client: Ministry of Municipalities and Rural Affairs

. Various Location

Number of Cell: 1 ~ 72 Cell Size: 1.00m x 1.00m ~ 7.00m x 5.00m

Building Construction



Client: Ministry of Education

Client: Ministry of Defense and Aviation

Client: Private Sectors

Residential Villa

Commercial Complex

Shopping Center

Condominium

Private Palace

Sport Complex

and Military Residential Building

1.2 Few images of AHC previous work:

Embankment:

Rock Excavation:

Aggregate Base Course:

Sub-grade

Embankment

Fig 1: Al haramain Company Profile



Fig 2: Al haramain Company headquarter

Company address:

Al Haramain Company for Commerce and Contracting Building

Al Nahda Area

Jeddah

2233

Saudi Arabia

+966 2 694 2000

[email protected]



Chapter Two

2. Over all internship experience

2.1. Joining of the company

I joined Al Haramain Company for Commerce & Contracting, Kingdom of Saudi

Arabia on 4th august 2014. The project manager Mr. Ahmed Yahya assigned me with

the site engineer on the three of their on-going projects.

2.2. Section of the company I have been work

My hosting company is working on several projects in Saudi Arabia. I was appointed in

Al-Baha region projects, a city which is 400km away from Jeddah.

The projects I was appointed are as following:

a. Souq Al Mikhwa Road Asphalt

b. Sanaia Link Road

c. Wadi Al Shaqra Lik Road

Our hosting company was a contractor it has so many responsibilities. First the

accountant compute bid for their drawing(architectural drawing) after they selected by

consultant they supply a working drawing like structural drawing, sanitary drawing,

electrical drawing in one copy based on the agreement and the total project cost(bill of

quantity) for the consultant after they officially announced the contractor. Then

construction begins starting from mobilization and office building.

The contracting work includes so many tasks such as inspecting of the site, quality

control and safety of workers. In the site works executed based on the agreement

between the client and the consultant. This document is called contract document so it

is contractor responsibility to checks every trade of work is executed based on the

contract document and the working methodology. Drawings and design also provide by

the consultant side.

2.2.1 Flow in the section

The working flow of the consultant and the contractor has many advantages in order to

work every task closely and to solve problems arise between them. In every work there

is a work flow whatever small is the section, my working site at Wadi Al Shaqra project

the work flow was look like the chart below. As shown in the chart every work was

executed based on this flow



Figure 3: flow in the section

1. Design and supervision team

The team includes structural engineer, architectural engineers, sanitary engineers,

electrical engineers and other experienced engineers in other professions. The design

and supervision team is a team from the consultant side which guide every work

executed in that site and gives supervision for the contractor based on the drawing and

the specification (bill of quantity).

This team mostly comes to the site when there is amiss understanding on drawings,

working techniques, drawing detailing error, and for meeting between the three parties.

The team provides continuous service to the project from start to finish, establishing

and maintaining the quality and integrity of each design.

2. Project manager

The project manager has so many responsibilities at the site and in our site these

positions is accountable for the contractor or the owner and are appointed by the owner

of the construction company.

The main duty of the manager is Manages the whole site work execution, Makes

payment to sub contract workers, Approves material request, Analyses the work

processes, Executes sub-contracting agreements, Reviews and checks the reports made

by the office engineer.

He/she also responsible for approval of change orders, invoices, deals with the

consultant. So, the poject manager mostly control every work as much as possible in

terms of their quality, cost and time.

3. Site Engineer

Site engineer shall be accountable for the following tasks and responsibilities:

Studying the work plan submitted by the contactor and suggests any

modifications.

To watch and inspect the construction work and assure that it is done in full

accordance with the drawings, technical specifications and bills of quantities.

Design and supervision team

Site Engineer

Surveyor

Skilled and non-skilled

workers

Project Manager



Supervising the works on site in accordance with the contract documents and

using the template and procedure established by the consultant.

Ensuring the correct implementation of the works according to technical

specifications, to designs and quality of materials

prepare weekly report and suggest and instruct additional safety measures if

needed

Site engineer manages all the machineries and workers on the different site

A good site engineer is the keystone of their projects since they control every

work more closely than the others

like project manager

4. Surveyor.

In any construction a surveyor is mandatory so, in our site the surveyor works starting

from setting out to checking verticality, keeping the natural level of the building,

checking elevation of columns.

5. Skilled and non-skilled workers:

This group includes masons, carpenter, bar benders, staff man, operator, mechanic and

the daily laborers. In our company workers of such group are appointed only by

experience these have its own advantage on the constriction. They work everything as

they ordered by withers the site engineer or the surveyor.

2.3 Work experience or task I have been executing

Since I have studied surveying course in my university so I was expecting to assigned

with the surveyor, but the projector manager assigned me with the site engineer as his

assistant so that I can easily learn from his experience and his methodology of executing

work on site and managing the whole team. The responsibilities of Site engineer include

management of sites as well as office documentation, computation of readings and

inspection of drawings.

2.3.1 Office Task

In my three weeks internship period I was asked to observe office work and I

experienced that Office works are mostly the work in progress at the site this includes

some tasks performed by site engineer. Such as;

Report writing

Reading and interpreting drawings

AutoCAD 2013

Here I will discuss Report writing, AutoCAD 2013 and Reading and interpreting drawing

as these were my only task in office work.



a) Report writing

Reporting is a controlling / informative mechanism which will help in evaluating the

status of a project. It also help decision makers to follow the status of the project

without being present physically on the site. The reports should explain the history of

the project .It should be realistic and self-explanatory. Numbers in a report are far

important than number crunching. Putting numbers for a report writer like 10 % or

90% may be simple but the meaning for the decision makers is very vital. Putting wrong

figures knowingly or unknowingly are devastating.

Major Contents of Report:

Project data ,Accomplishment of weekly Plan, Weekly labor and Machinery Deployment,

Material Delivered to the site, major Problems of the week , Solutions given to the major

problems, Anticipated problems to be solved for the next week , next week plan.

b) Reading and interpreting drawings

Drawings are the means by which the designer conveys the physical, quantitative,

and visual description of the project to the contractor. The drawings are a two-

dimensional representation of the physical structure that meets the objectives of the

owner. They are also known as plans or blueprints.

In this company AutoCAD drawings are used in which the site engineer design the

road with all the technicalities such as it shows where the filling is required or

cutting and the culvert box.

c) AutoCAD 2013

I was taught AutoCAD 2004 basic in our first semester but that wasn’t much

effective because it was very old version. I was given the software to learn and make

drawings of the simple house plan so that I can at least learn AutoCAD handling.

2.3.2 Site Task

The site work was the very important task for me because it is the main objective of

the internship. The ite work helped me in different areas such as communication

skill, handling workers, management skill etc.

The tasks I have been executing on the site are:

Supervising of ongoing procedure

Inspection of the work element

Handling of equipment (total station, auto level

and GPS device).



Chapter three

3. Material and Methods.

The procedures I followed and performed different task are briefly describe below

on each project respectively.

3.1 Project: Souq AL Makhwa road asphalt

Task: Road asphalt and Curb stone work. Project Cost:

Contractor: AL Haramain Company of commerce and contracting. Consultant: Saudi tech.

Client: Ministry of Transportation Saudi Arabia.

In this project our company was given the task for the road asphalt in the makhwa

market and also the blocks work on the island. Usually asphalt is done on a rough

surface or after scratching the old asphalt with the help of scrapper commonly

known as resurfacing but in this project due to shortage of time and a very busy

point in the city the client decided to re asphalt the all roads.

Here I was present just to witness the whole site and to observe the asphalt procedure. This work requires much accuracy and mistakes are not bearable.

Fig 4: Asphalt procedure with asphalt paver

Fig 5 : Compaction of asphalt with rubber and steel roller.

Fig 6 : Curb stone work is in process



3.2. Project: Sanaia Link Road

Task: Designing and construction of road Project Cost:

Contractor: AL Haramain Company of commerce and contracting Consultant: Baldiyah Makhwa

Client: Ministry of Transportation Saudi Arabia

This project was construction of 10km road which was divided in eight links in a new

housing society. The contractor makes a profile of the land and designs the road on the

area which was covered by mountains so blasting and cutting of the mountains was

carried out. Excavation work was already done on the site and there were total eight

roads. The filling was done and the road was in grading process.

a) Center line

A center line is marked by measuring the both ends of the road so that asphalt can be

done. The road is total of 10Km, after which small steel bars are placed for marking.

b) Levelling

Before asphalt is carried out the road is levelled on all three points which includes both

the ends and the centre line. Levelling is carried out by placing the auto level equipment

on a distance from where most of the road is covered and the staff man can be clearly

seen and reading on the staff scale.

The staff scale reading then gives the value of the subgrade material which should be of

20cm width and if the width is exceeding or it is underneath the 20cm we mention it

with the small steel bar and then the grader or the roller calls on the site to level it.

Table 1: Road profile

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

SUMMARY OF QUANTITIES Ministry of Municipalities

Municipality of Ranyah

SANAIA PROJECT (MAKHWAH) CONTRACTOR:

CONSULTANT:

S LINKS LENGTH REMARKS

NO. FROM TO m. FILL CUT

1 SANAIA ROAD 1 0.000 745.000 745.000 6,488.273 6,804.246

2 SANAIA ROAD 2 0.000 279.000 279.000 2,187.303 2,389.659

3 SANAIA ROAD 3 0.000 325.000 325.000 4,159.697 8,322.543

4 SANAIA ROAD 4 0.000 120.000 120.000 4,486.801 201.871

5 SANAIA ROAD 5 0.000 125.000 125.000 2,184.035 4,616.019

6 SANAIA ROAD 6 0.000 153.000 153.000 485.122 1,541.234

7 SANAIA ROAD 7 0.000 400.000 400.000 4,166.188 42,889.362

8 SANAIA ROAD 8 0.000 131.000 131.000 38.939 948.053

TOTAL = 24,196.358 67,712.987

QUANTITYSTATION

AL HARAMAIN CO.

BALADIYA MAKHWAH



Fig 7 : Using auto level for levelling subgrade

Fig 8 : grader use to level the subgrade material

3.3 Project: Wadi Al Shaqra Link Road

Task: Designing of road and construction. Project Cost:

Contractor: AL Haramain Company of commerce and contracting. Consultant: Saudi tech.

Client: Ministry of Transportation Saudi Arabia.

This project was actually divided in two phase of working procedure. The total road constitute of 5Km, the first phase of the road was completed earlier (3Km).

The major problem we face here is the weather condition and its geographical location as it was low latitude, the danger of heavy floods and landslip is quit high, also the area is surrounded heavy mountains and the road is to be constructed in the gap.

Completion of this project in a given time was a challenge.

Fig 9 : Sandstorm in Wadi Al Shaqra



Bench mark

Before we start work we have to put the bench mark for further construction and to put

bench mark it is necessary to locate a place on a site area from where we can see the

whole study area where we need to do construction.

There are several methods for putting the bench mark but my company gives me the

GPS device and the site engineer took me to possible highest place and there we make

our bench mark by taking Easting and Northing readings.

Setting out/Surveying

A road is set out in order to clearly define the outline of the excavation and the center

line of the walls, so that construction can be carried out exactly according to the plan.

The basic coordinates of land will be set in position in accordance to the given bench

mark. Surveying carried out and we mark coordinates to take a plane area for the road

where no obstacles such as river, houses or farms in that area with the help of total

station.

Fig 10 : Wadi al shaqra area where road will be construct

Excavation

Excavation is the first step of construction. It refers to the process of removing soil or

rock from its original location, typically in preparation for constructing foundations,

basements, roads in mountain area and underground utility lines and for grading of the

ground surface. Excavation work I have seen was including cutting of the mountain with

bulldozer and the material to be filled where it is needed with the help of grader. The

top layer we placed is of 20cm subgrade.

The subgrade usually tested in the lab by material and geology engineer which tells us

weather the material is fine to spread before asphalt and will it compressed and about

its compaction details.



Fig 11 : Excavation is in process. bulldozer cutting extra material.

Leveling/Auto level:

The leveling is done with the auto level equipment. It is done after the subgrade

material and then we prepare another road profile report for the consultant. if the road

is not level the marking is done so that the grader operator level it.

Grader work:

Grader has to cut the extra material and spread it where the extra material is required

which is called filling. In some places the mountains and the surface are hard so

bulldozer do the same job there. Operator leveling the sub grade material before the

asphalt can done with the grader.

Fig 12 : Grading work is in process



Chapter four

4 Visit of crusher plant

4.1 Making Foundation for filter

The procedure was carried out at crusher plant. When the plant was in process

making crush, sand and stones it produces dust. To minimize the dust and because

of restrictions from the environment control department the filter placed with the

crasher.

Fig 13 : leveling the surface for framework of concrete

Fig 14 : final concrete, making foundation

Fig 15 : Installation of filter



4.2 Plant Briefing

Crusher:

A machine for crushing stones and produce sand, small stones and crush.

Fig 16 : Crusher plant

Control room:

Control room is for the engineer from where he monitored the entire process. The

engineer enters the numeric or the required size of the stone. The engineer also

monitors the plant temperature and the quantity of big stonnes to be thrown in the

crusher.

Fig 17A : Crusher and the cabin based control room

Fig 17B : Control room (inside view)



Cone Crusher:

It’s a part of the crusher plant where the big stones are crushed nto smaller sizes.

The size is specified in the control room. These small stones then send for screening.

The small crush stone are used in concrete.

Fig 18 : The cone crusher and the ramp

Screen:

Screening is done here, and with the help of ramp they thrown out. The wrong sized

stones wich cannot get crushed into specified size were then sent back to the

crusher through the ramp.

FIg 19 : Screen done in this part of the plant

Reference:

W.f. CHEN, J.y.Richard LieW ―The civil engineering hand book‖ crc press, second

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