INTERNSHIP REPORT KULKA LLC.

Malhar Modi 7/30/16 SUMMER INTERNSHIP

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Contents 1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................. 2

2 Amneal Pharmaceuticals ......................................................................................................... 2

3 Windwatch Condos.................................................................................................................. 4

4 Homewood Suites .................................................................................................................... 4

5 Perfume Center of America ..................................................................................................... 7

6 Contract Pharmacal .................................................................................................................. 8

7 Lumber Earth ........................................................................................................................... 9

8 Hampton Inn .......................................................................................................................... 12

Table of Figures Figure 1 Amneal Pharmaceuticals Front View ........................................................................... 2

Figure 2 Amneal Pharmaceuticals Warehouse Construction ...................................................... 3

Figure 3 Mechanical Schedule Sample ....................................................................................... 3

Figure 4 Parking Takeoff on the Software .................................................................................. 6

Figure 5 Flooring Takeoffs on the Software ............................................................................... 6

Figure 6 Perfume Center of America Site ................................................................................... 7

Figure 7 Parking Takeoff ............................................................................................................ 8

Figure 8 Lumber Earth Site ......................................................................................................... 9

Figure 9 Parking Drawing ......................................................................................................... 10

Figure 10 Surveying Reading .................................................................................................. 11

Figure 11 Hampton Inn ........................................................................................................... 12

Tables

Table 1 Windwatch Bidding List Sample .................................................................................. 4

Table 2 Roofing Shingles Quantities ......................................................................................... 5

Table 3 Flooring Summary Quantities ...................................................................................... 5

Table 4 Partition Wall Quantities Sample ................................................................................. 5

Table 5 Ceiling Quantities Summary ........................................................................................ 5

Table 6 Structural Steel Takeoff ................................................................................................ 8

Table 7 Request for Information from Architect ....................................................................... 9

Table 8 Surveying Calculations ............................................................................................... 11

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1 Introduction The internship report is based on the internship by the author at Kulka Construction, LLC at

Hauppauge, NY. It was a 14 weeks’ internship partly on site on partly in head office. The title of

the author was Construction Management Intern. The author was involved in various projects of

the working for project managers and superintendents of each project. The work assigned was a

mix of construction management and site supervision. Being involved on various projects, the

author got to experience various types of construction comprising of residential, commercial,

industrial and warehouse. The further report includes a description on each of the project that

author worked on and work assigned for each of the projects.

2 Amneal Pharmaceuticals Amneal Pharmaceuticals is a large pharmaceutical company whose headquarter is being

constructed in Brookhaven, NY. The size of the project is a 326,267 sq. ft. including offices,

manufacturing, and warehouse. The project started in July 2012 and expected completion date is

September 2016. Estimated project cost is $ 148 million. It is considered the largest project

currently going on in long island area, NY (Figure 1 and Figure 2). The projected is implemented

through Construction Manager Agency contract with many prime contractors with a direct contract

with the owner. The payment to the CM company is on the time basis for fixed manpower used on

the project.

While working at the office I prepared all the mechanical systems’ schedule on Microsoft Project.

I identified the status of the mechanical works on the site with various site visits and made a

schedule with the mechanical subcontractor. The schedule consisted of 65 major activities with

expected completion time of 60 days. (Figure 3)

Figure 1 Amneal Pharmaceuticals Front View

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Figure 2 Amneal Pharmaceuticals Warehouse Construction

Figure 3 Mechanical Schedule Sample

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In between the internship for around 1 month the author was kept onsite inspection working

directly under the senior superintendent. The author’s work was to inspect the quality of all the

site works and carry out the necessary field coordination required among all the trade contractors.

There were more than 15 trade contractors working at the site simultaneously. The project being a

pharmaceutical manufacturing plant, there were various types of mechanical work going on.

Clashes among different utilities were often found which had to be resolved among the contractors.

The author had to maintain a daily report on the software Prolog Manager. The number of labors

for each contractor along with the work executed for each day was entered into the software. Due

to lack of space, the material was stacked in the working area (Figure 2). Hence if any contractor

had to work over the stacked materials than rigger team had to be coordinated for shifting the

materials to any other place.

3 Windwatch Condos Windwatch Condos is a residential project of 128 apartments currently in planning stage. The type

of contract between Kulka Construction and owner is Construction Management Agency contract.

The format followed for the project is CMAA Document A-1, Standard Form of Agreement

Between Owner and Construction Manager. The author had to request the bids from various

contractors for various trades. Few list of the contractors was given by the company and few had

to be searched from the ‘The Blue Book”, which is an online construction directory. A spreadsheet

was maintained for the status and price of the bids from all the contractors (Table 1). At the time

of the deadline, a follow-up was made to all the contractors with their status of the bids.

Table 1 Windwatch Bidding List Sample

4 Homewood Suites Homewood Suites is a hotel project in Ronkonkoma, NY comprising of 122 suites of different

categories. This one is Construction Management at Risk contract with Guaranteed Maximum

Price (GMP) yet to be decided. The project is in planning stage. GMP is yet to be decided for

which the author to carry out estimation and request for proposals from various contractors.

Estimation for various flooring, roof shingles, walls, ceilings, curbs, footpaths, asphalts and

various ceilings was carried out by the author. The company did not use any professional takeoff

software hence, the author found out a software called ‘Bluebeam Revu’ which had a one-month

trial, was used for the takeoffs. The plans The purpose of the estimation is to make a budget of the

project to decide a Guaranteed Maximum Price. Quantities of the major trades were calculated by

the company whereas small trades like bathroom accessories, partitions, fireplaces, swimming

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pool were left to be directly proposed by the contractor without takeoffs. to Table 5 Ceiling

Quantities SummaryTable 5 shows the takeoffs done on the spreadsheets. Figure 4 and Figure 5

are the takeoffs on the software Bluebeam Revu.

Table 3 Flooring Summary Quantities

Total Quantities (SF)

Carpet 59355

Normal Kitchen Flooring 8622

Kitchen- High-Pressure Laminate 586

Ceramic Tiles 7798

Solidified Concrete 4270

Resilient Vinyl Tiles 1504

Porcelain Tiles 1684

Quarry Tiles 340

Sealed Concrete 120

WD 80

Total 84359

Table 4 Partition Wall Quantities Sample

Table 5 Ceiling Quantities Summary

Total Quantities (sf)

G.B./ PTD Gypsum Board/ Paint 16479

ACT/ G.B. PTD Acoustical Ceiling Tile/ Gypsum Board Paint 693

ACT Acoustical Ceiling Tile 19836

PTD Paint 5124

Ext C.B. Exterior Ceiling Board 1669

WD WD 80

Texture Texture 37896

Exterior C.B./ PTD Exterior Celing Board/ Paint 9140

Total 90917 SF

South Building Fire Rating- 1 hr, 2 Side 5/8" Gypsum Board 1 446.58 37.98 2 33,922.2

North Building Fire Rating- 1 hr, 2 Side 5/8" Gypsum Board 1 446.58 37.98 2 33,922.2

East Building Fire Rating- 1 hr, 2 Side 5/8" Gypsum Board 1 307.25 19.83 2 12,185.5

West Building Fire Rating- 1 hr, 2 Side 5/8" Gypsum Board 1 111.66 11.67 2 2,606.1

Staircase Walls Fire Rating- 2 hr, 2 Side 5/8" Gypsum Board, 2 layers Gyp Liner 4 27.83 37.98 2 8,455.9

South Building Fire Rating- 1 hr, 2 Side 5/8" Gypsum Board 1 998.83 37.98 2 75,871.1

North Building Fire Rating- 1 hr, 2 Side 5/8" Gypsum Board 1 998.83 37.98 2 75,871.1

West Building Fire Rating- 1 hr, 2 Side 5/8" Gypsum Board 1 60.81 11.67 2 1,419.3

East Building Fire Rating- 1 hr, 2 Side 5/8" Gypsum Board 1 188.32 19.83 2 7,468.8

350,970.5 SF

Corridor Partions

Other Partition Walls

Total

Roof Area

(sf)

A 11084

B 556

C 10907

D 6160

E 356

F 248

G 913

H 2846

I 754

J 248

K 248

L 356

Total 34676

ROOFING AREA

Table 2 Roofing Shingles Quantities

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Figure 4 Parking Takeoff on the Software

Figure 5 Flooring Takeoffs on the Software

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After estimation, the request for proposals was sent to the contractors of different trades and each

contractor were given deadlines to submit a bid. The drawings and Project Manual Plan were

shared on one drive to the contractors. After receiving the proposals from each contractor,

summary sheets were prepared for comparing each contractor of respective trades with differences

in their proposals. The comparison was used to select the aptest price for the particular trade to be

used in the GMP. Further, all the selected prices were summed up and adjustments were made by

the project manager to come up with a GMP.

5 Perfume Center of America Perfume Center of America is the world’s biggest whole-selling company for perfumes. They

moving their headquarters to Ronkonkoma, NY. The total construction area is 220,000 sq. ft.

which comprises of office, store, warehouse and various loading docks (Figure 6). The project has

been executed in 2 phases. 1st phase consists of offices and warehouse has been finished and

occupied. The second phase consisting of warehouse extension and building surrounding

construction is in completion stage. The type of contract is Construction Manager Agency.

Figure 6 Perfume Center of America Site

The author had to search for a trailer from trailer traders for using it as a temple in the company

basis on a permanent basis. The author contacted various traders, collected prices and shortlisted

few of them. Further, the author went to check the shortlisted trailers and took pictures of each of

them. Later on, my reviews and pictures, the project manager and the owner decided the trailer to

be used.

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6 Contract Pharmacal Contract Pharmacal is Hauppauge-based pharmaceutical manufacturing company who is going

under continuous renovation since few years. The author had to carry out quantity takeoff on the

basis of architectural drawings and existing structures. Drawing indicated the final structure.

Hence, the author had to make site visits to mark the elements which are not to be changed,

elements to be destroyed and make new and the elements which are to be completely new. Author

calculated quantities for walls, steel, curbs, asphalt, and concrete. The takeoff was done on

Bluebeam Revu and spreadsheets (Figure 7 and Table 6). Many details were missing in structural

drawings for which Request for Information was carried out from the architect (Table 7).

Figure 7 Parking Takeoff

Table 6 Structural Steel Takeoff

Structural Steel Quantities

Fill Rooms A

Description Length No. Linear Weight Total Weight

ft lbs/ft lbs

W 4x 13 5 20 13 1300

W 8 x 17 16.58 8 17 2254.88

Steel Tube 4" x 4" 8.67 16 Missing

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Table 7 Request for Information from Architect

Request for Information

Sr. No. Description Drawing No.

1 Linear Weight of Steel Tubes at Fill Room missing. S-1

2 Foundation details of columns at Fill Rooms is missing S-1

3 Type of girder used for Fill Rooms B given in plan is W 10 x 17. Whereas, the girder given in Section of Fill Room B is W 8x 17.

S-1

4 Linear Weight of Steel Tubes at Mezzanine Room missing. S-2

5 No. of proposed columns at Mezzanine Room is not given. S-2

6 The depth of Mezzanine slab missing. S-2

7

Type of beam used for Mezzanine Floor given in plan is W 12 x 27. Whereas, the beam given in Section of Mezzanine Floor is W 12 x 26.

S-2

8 Details of Metal Deck missing S-2

7 Lumber Earth Lumber Earth is a 22,500 sq. ft. residential and retail store project on downtown Roslyn, NY. It is

$ 12 million project comprising of 20 rental units, one retail store and recreational space for the

residents. The project is in construction phase (Figure 8). The author had to carry out surveying in

the parking area with the help of surveying rod, measure tap, dumpy level, and marking spray. The

objective was to find out how much soil to be cut or fill for the finished parking area. The reading

was taken at each 20’ x 20’ grid with the help of superintendent (Figure 9 and Figure 10). Further,

the final calculations were done in the office on a spreadsheet (Table 8).

Figure 8 Lumber Earth Site

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Figure 9 Parking Drawing

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Reading on the Dumpy Level 3.375 ft

Level from Sea of the Dumpy Level 15.375 ft

Points Readings

Existing

Level

Proposed

Top Curb

Proposed

Top of

Soil

Level

Differe

nce

Volume

Difference

(ft) (ft) (ft) (ft) (ft) (cub. Ft.)

1 4.71 10.67 11.10 10.31 0.36 143.33

2 4.08 11.29 11.10 10.31 0.98 393.47

3 5.00 10.38 10.40 9.61 0.77 306.67

4 5.25 10.13 10.40 9.61 0.52 206.67

5 5.25 10.13 10.40 9.61 0.52 206.67

6 5.17 10.21 10.08 9.28 0.92 369.87

7 5.25 10.13 9.75 8.96 1.17 466.67

8 6.00 9.38 9.75 8.96 0.42 166.67

9 4.42 10.96 11.40 10.61 0.35 139.99

10 3.75 11.63 11.40 10.61 1.02 406.67

11 3.92 11.46 11.06 10.27 1.19 475.99

12 5.92 9.46 10.72 9.93 -0.47 -188.01

13 5.33 10.05 10.38 9.59 0.46 182.67

14 5.25 10.13 10.04 9.25 0.88 350.67

15 5.17 10.21 9.70 8.91 1.30 519.87

16 5.33 10.05 9.00 8.21 1.84 734.67

17 4.17 11.21 11.40 10.61 0.60 239.87

18 4.08 11.29 11.00 10.20 1.09 435.47

19 5.08 10.29 10.59 9.80 0.49 197.47

20 5.08 10.29 10.19 9.39 0.90 359.47

21 5.08 10.29 9.78 8.99 1.30 521.47

22 5.33 10.05 9.38 8.58 1.46 584.67

23 4.13 11.25 11.40 10.61 0.64 256.67

24 5.29 10.08 11.04 10.25 -0.17 -66.67

25 5.33 10.05 10.68 9.89 0.15 61.33

26 5.25 10.13 10.33 9.53 0.59 236.66

27 5.17 10.21 9.97 9.18 1.03 413.19

28 4.67 10.71 9.61 8.82 1.89 756.53

29 5.42 9.96 9.25 8.46 1.50 599.99

30 4.08 11.29 11.20 10.41 0.88 353.47

31 4.08 11.29 11.10 10.31 0.98 393.47

32 4.67 10.71 11.30 10.51 0.20 79.87

33 5.08 10.29 10.50 9.71 0.58 233.47

34 5.29 10.08 10.25 9.46 0.62 250.00

35 5.42 9.96 10.00 9.21 0.75 299.99

36 5.42 9.96 9.75 8.96 1.00 399.99

37 5.50 9.88 9.50 8.71 1.17 466.67

38 5.50 9.88 9.25 8.46 1.42 566.67

39 5.58 9.79 9.00 8.21 1.58 633.47

40 5.58 9.79 9.00 8.21 1.58 633.47

41 4.83 10.55 11.30 10.51 0.04 14.67

42 4.96 10.42 11.25 10.46 -0.04 -16.67

43 5.67 9.71 11.20 10.41 -0.70 -280.13

44 5.88 9.49 10.81 10.02 -0.53 -212.25

45 6.17 9.21 10.43 9.64 -0.43 -171.57

46 5.96 9.42 10.04 9.25 0.17 66.19

47 6.17 9.21 9.66 8.87 0.34 137.00

48 6.29 9.08 9.27 8.48 0.60 241.42

49 6.08 9.29 8.89 8.09 1.20 479.17

50 5.71 9.67 8.50 7.71 1.96 783.33

51 6.00 9.38 8.75 7.96 1.42 566.67

52 4.67 10.71 10.85 10.06 0.65 259.87

53 6.00 9.38 10.38 9.58 -0.21 -83.33

54 6.67 8.71 9.90 9.11 -0.40 -160.13

55 6.33 9.05 9.79 9.00 0.05 18.67

56 6.08 9.29 9.68 8.89 0.40 161.47

57 6.42 8.96 9.57 8.78 0.18 71.99

58 6.75 8.63 9.46 8.67 -0.04 -17.33

59 6.67 8.71 9.35 8.56 0.15 59.87

60 4.88 10.50 10.50 9.71 0.79 316.67

61 7.17 8.21 10.19 9.40 -1.19 -475.13

62 7.08 8.29 9.88 9.08 -0.79 -316.53

63 6.79 8.58 9.56 8.77 -0.19 -75.00

64 6.67 8.71 9.25 8.46 0.25 99.87

15257.85 cub ft

Dig Out 565.11 cub yard

Figure 10 Surveying Reading

Table 8 Surveying Calculations

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8 Hampton Inn Hampton Inn is an extension of the existing hotel in Rockville Village, NY. It is a new building

with 62 guest rooms and suites. It is in construction phase reached until 3rd-floor slab as on

7/31/2016 (Figure 11). This is Construction Management Agency contract.

The author attended the weekly meetings of the project which resulted in few data missing from

the Architectural drawings. Firstly, elevator pit size was not matching with the size required for

the specified elevator model. Secondly, the entrance to the building was at a lower level than the

rest of the surrounding ground level and drains were not provided in the architectural drawings.

For both of these cases, Request for Information was to be generated from the architect. The

architect had its own online information system on which RFIs were requested. Later on, the RFI

were also maintained and generated through the company software ‘Prolog Manager’ and sent to

the Architect on email. Apart from all the works assigned to the author, daily reports on the Prolog

Manager for this project was to be maintained by the author. Hence, throughout the whole

internship, the author entered the daily activity report on the software, submitted by the project

superintendent on email, as the software only run on the office server.

Figure 11 Hampton Inn