Team 1 went to see the Three Villas Project and project director "Superman" showed us around . It was mostly
complete with the exception of putting in final finishes, cabinetry, MEP works,
and appliances. Throughout the visit we encountered many barefoot workers
inside the villa and some hanging off of the scaffolding. You could say some
safety measures are different here in the UAE.
Team 2 went to go visit Galleria Barsha Retail Center. Mr.
Jihad and Ref Rami took us around and on top of the site. From the basement up to
the roof where we walked across the thin fragile and incomplete skylight glass
learning about the riveting topic of MEP finishing and authority approval.
After lunch we went to the main structural designer,
e.construct, for DCC projects. They are best at preforming value engineering
and saves millions of dollars on various construction projects across the
United Arab Emirates. Their presentation was on 3D printing structures and how
it will be the future in building small-scale buildings.
In our free time we all went to the Dubai Mall to have
dinner, shop, and go to the world’s largest aquarium and underwater zoo. We
took a taxi to the metro station and took the metro to the mall. For a lot of
us, it was our first time on the metro. The walking to, in, and out of the mall
was ridiculous. We probably walked a marathon there. In the aquarium, we saw
many sharks
and a few big ones with lots of razor shape teeth swimming above us. One fish we saw in the underwater zoo called the Archer Fish would shoot water with pinpoint accuracy at us, our cameras, and setup targets. It was wild.
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