Project Planner, Laing O’Rourke, Nottinghamshire, UK, Jun 2008 – Aug 2009
Project: Staythorpe Gas Power-station – Alstom Power – £54m
Construction of 4No 400 MW power-train units and cooling towers for a combined cycle gas turbine power-station. Works consisted of deep excavations, concrete foundations, duct, drainage and water cooling pipe installation.
Design and construction of a reinforced concrete nuclear waste storage facility, including overhead cranes, shield doors and full mechanical and electrical instrumentation and control.
Numerous projects including: piling and concrete works to the 440x50x20m concourse B building, rail, baggage and service tunnels, airside roads, a 6No level 400x60m multi-storey car-park, and site wide drainage and electrical infrastructure.
My previous job is on quantity surveying. I was into a precast industry, doing the quantity take-off, costing and minor schedulling activities for production. But my planning experience was very elementary in procedure, I was doing it on Excel. Nevertheless, the past experiences had never been taken for granted as I had learned and developed the concept of planning from this simple procedure.