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Structural design
Today, I measured the foundations and walls of my pond by making a 3D model in SketchUp. From left to right, more and more is added: foundation, walls, retaining walls, border stone. Calculations are ongoing, but I’ll give you a sneak peak of the pond model embedded in a model of my garden, as we…
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Sand or soil?
My pond will be right next to our house. Since I want it to stay level “forever”, I will build my pond walls out brick, and I’ll need a concrete foundation. Basics of concrete Concrete is made with two main ingredients: aggregate and paste. The paste contains (portland) cement and water. this is the glue…
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A slow day
I didn’t get a lot done today. I had a headache, took a nap, wrote a lot of reports for work and wasted an hour on a cute video game. In the end, I only extended my project overview matrix a little bit. I am not very concerned about finishing the pond, there’s no question…
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Pond planning
I’m thoroughly annoyed by the project’s Sharepoint at work. People who focus on a sub-project want all the related subfolders (execution, QHSE, engineering,…) in one overarching folder. But people who are responsible for e.g. project-wide QHSE want all the QHSE-related subfolders in one QHSE folder. The result? A confusing mess of redundant folders and non-synced…
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Beginner
A little over a while ago, I wanted to log my personal projects. So I bought web hosting, I registered two domain names (I was unhappy with the first one), and then… Not much happened. For months, I went through a cycle of writing explanatory texts, trying to learn some webdesign, and procrastinating because I…