Inside the office of :: SMM

This is a little of what I have been up to in the office. This first project is project that was only in the office for 2 week. We don't always go though projects this fast, but I worked with another girl in the office on this project and I was able make the site visit as well and work on the plans and doing the montages for the project. The reason the project went thought the office so fast was the city acquired a large among of trees to be planed in the governmental housing part of Sydney. So to plan the placement of the trees properly, as well as to raise awareness to the community the benefit of planting these tree. A local college in Sydney did series of heat test in the community that showed due to the lack of trees it is warming the area up so much that it can't cool off fast enough in the evening. So hopefully by planting these trees it will shade the pavement enough to bring down the temperature over the whole community.... After doing our research on the site and figuring out that it will never be possible due to the power, telephone and water lines that run though the area. But we were told to just continued so hopefully if we could get the raise enough awareness that one day the community would be willing to raise money to complete the project.

This next project is in Sydney's Chinatown. This project is still in the early stages of the design so I am constantly revising these montages as the design changes. But more or less we are make the street in Chinatown more pedestrian friendly, by closing streets and widening footpaths, and of course adding trees. (I know the red tree looks fake ... but it is a real tree, that really gets that red.)

These are just a few of the task I have completed while I have been here and some of these are more interesting images to look at. I jump around on a lot of the projects in the office to I have been doing a wide range of jobs. One being some cool sections on a road where we are installing large pole allowing these flying squirrels to cross the highway, so we had to calculate the distance they can fly and place poles high and far enough apart so they can safely cross, the poles will one day be taken down once the trees reach the proper heigh (very interesting). Sections to come later