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Chapter one

HISTORY OF libu kifle COMPANY

1.1. Brief history of the company

Back ground of libu kifle building

constructor

 libu kifle building constructor started in 1990 E.C firstly the company was grade
seven level building contractor (B.C7 ) generally grade of Contractor divided in two
classes
 The company has possessed experienced workman and key construction facilities. It
undergoes his work by participating females, youth, micro and small enterprise and
other private limited company.
 The company is mostly engaged in construction, Water work & equipment rental
services And now we are in market investigation phase of in the foreign market.
 generally the company preform many works in addis baba,hawasa, negale borena,
guji zone , ambo university ,welaita university and afar rigion .
 in the present time the campany working some projects like bole ayat 40/60
condominium houses , Jigjiga university in main compass staff –Residence (G+4),
ambo university in guder campass and other project the libu kifle construction
companies there class work progress .

1.1 VISION AND MISSION OF libu kifle

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VISION
Enabling the owner of the house by building quality and low cost houses for
those who have low and medium income in Addis Ababa city in2012 E.C.

MISION

By reducing high house shortage problem in Addis Ababa city, enabling the owner of
cost saving houses through enhancing integrated work approach via participating
consultants, and micro and small enterprises, and strengthening industry of
construction
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Section of the company I was involved in:

Organizational Flow Chart at the site(G+4 STAFF RESIDENCE )

General manager

PROJECT MANAGER

SITE ADMINISTRATION CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING

GUARD OFFICE SITE ENGINEER

STORE KEPER TIME KEEPER
ENGINEER

QUANTITY GENERAL
SURVEYOR FORMAN

DATA COLLECTOR FORMAN

 General Manager: would be accountable to the company operation would head the
firm based on his/her authority depicted on memorandum and job description.
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 Project manager: - manages the whole site work execution.

- Makes payment to sub contract workers.

- Approves material request.

- Analyses the work processes.

- Executes sub-contracting agreements.

- Issues the grant of higher power of working class.

- Reviews and checks the reports made by the office engineer

etc.

 Office engineer:-includes quantity surveyor.

 General Forman: - assigns and controls the gang leaders and carpenter Forman

- checks the whole work process

- quantifies some materials and makes request

- Reports any challenges of work procedures and their execution

etc.
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Site Engineer

The site engineer controls all construction activities on the site starting from the
very beginning. Generally, the site engineer;

- Set out the site

- Check the excavation and earthworks according to specifications and
drawings.
- Strictly follows the given time schedules in order to avoid any delaying on the
project completion time.

Foreman

The Forman coordinates the workmen according to their particular activity like
masons, carpenters, bar benders, electricians, plumbers, labor and operators on the site
order and control them.

In general the foreman;-

- Keeps the work moving ahead daily as the project engineer has planned it,
- Organizes and directs the work done by the skilled and unskilled labors,
- Studies the working drawings in detail before starting the work,
- Checks that the various construction works goes parallel,
- Checks whether skilled or unskilled labor, materials, is sufficient or not for the
given work schedule,
- Executes the order that come from the project engineer.

All the other members of the company have their own responsibilities and duties which will
be described to them according to the company policy and agree on signing the contract
agreement.
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1. HOW I JOINED THE COMPANY

For practical purpes universities have a time for internship program for their
technology student, among that jigjiga university institute of technology is one of them. Thus
the University Industry Linkage (UIL) gave me the application/requesting paper to choose
and apply into convenient companies. I have visited a number of construction companies
which had negative responses before I joined jijiga university. Most of the companies I sent
my request letters to said they have already other students and some of them said they have
no policy to host interns. This was totally out of my expectation and since there were many
construction companies in the country and I believed they could host interns competitively. I
had sent my request letter to many contracters in my home town mekelle unfrotunitly all of
them did not have new site.fainaly iam forced to join to jigjiga university .I know I have a
good chance being present in jigjiga because i have one course raming to take Rcc -2.
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2. CHALLENGES DURING THE INTERNSHIP

There were many challenges I faced during my internship experience in the past four months.
Most of the challenges are at the work place. The challenges I faced during my tasks where:-

- During concrete works and payment checking for calculating lengths I encountered
that some of the dimension where not on the blue print so I had to refer to the soft
copies and also with understanding the details on the drawings I had to see the actual
field work in order to get a clear vision.

3. PROBLEMS OBSERVED AT SITE AND THEIR PROPER SOLUTION

As per design the work at site may not took place because of some errors and
misunderstanding by site engineers or may be due to carelessness of site engineers .since the
purpose of design is to ensure that ,the structure being designed will not become unfit for
the use it is required which ensure suitable margin of safety.

Accepting the fact that the strength of construction material varies, as do also the loads on
the structure designed to be five floor.