My Campus Life: Report of 1M Plate Project

REPORT OF THE ‘CELAH’ PROJECT YEAR 2007

On the 1^st August 2007, all the HBP students have to start their ‘CELAH’ Project. The objective of this project is to beautify the HBP area.

The ‘CELAH’ Project is a ‘Zero-cost’ project, which means that we cannot spend any money on this project. To complete this project, we have to find the resources and sponsor ourselves.

To start the part 1 of this project, we have to form a group which contains 6 people with different major from HBP, i.e. architecture, interior design, urban and regional planning, quantity surveying, building technology, and construction management. We have form an international group, which contain Malaysian, people from Thailand, people from China and people from Iran. The major of each our group members is as follow :

1. Mohamad Ali Shahcheraghi (Building Technology, Iran)

2.Pattara Hatsadeevijid (Architecture, Thailand)

3. Loo Chui Shen (Quantity Surveying, Malaysia)

4. Yang RuiDong (Construction Management, China)

5. Zayummie Mohamad Yusof (Urban and Regional Planning, Malaysia)

6. Zhang Bei (Interior Design, China)

Yang RuiDong (Major in Construction Management) is our group leader.

We also have to name our group. After discussing, we finally decided to name our group as ’EVERGREEN’ since we have to relate sustainable development and environment to this project. To fulfill the requirement, Pattara and Zhang Bei had together design the name card of out group, and we manage to summit the name card on 4^th August 2007.

We have started the part 2 of this project by doing a research at HBP area. We finally decided to study the area between E47-E48 building and E15 building. We had done a research on what problems were that area facing and the methods to solve all the problems. We manage to summit our proposal on 8^th August 2007.

To start the part 3 of this ‘CELAH’ project, we first have to find all the materials that we need. We had to go to the construction site of HBP to ask for some wood. We also success to find a lot planks from the HBP workshop after we get the permission from the people who in charge in the workshop.

We need some tools, such as hammer, saw, nails and chisel, for this project. Since we cannot spend any money on this project, we decided to borrow all the needed tools from the HBP workshop.

After we had found all the materials and tools that we needed, we started the part 3 of the project by cut the plank to 1 meter long and 1meter wide. Then, we cut the wood to 1 meter long as the framework of the 1 M plate. After cutting all the woods and planks, we hammer the woods and planks together according to our design.

Lastly, we decorate our 1 M plate and improve the weakness of the plate which had already done.

We finish the part 3 of the ‘CELAH’ project by moving our plate to the place that appointed by Mr. Wan Burhanuddin.

We had faced a lot of problems when doing this project. First, it is not so easy to find all the materials freely. Second, some woods are too hard and not easily to cut, whereas some woods are too easily broken.

Third, the joint was not easy to do well, as it is hard to estimate the depth of the joint that we had cut. Fourth, as our group is the international group, it is hard to communicate to each other.

However, we finally overcome all the difficulties and succeed to complete the ‘CELAH’ project. Besides, we have managed to foster our relationship between each group members. Thanks to ‘CELAH’ project, it really bring lots of benefits to all of us.

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