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Hello, I’m Kamino, a civil engineer and government employee who blogs. This is an introduction to cost estimation for civil engineers! In this post, I’ll introduce the books used in cost estimation work, categorized into the following five groups: Books on cost estimation standards (labor rates) Books on construction unit prices Books on material unit prices Books on equipment expenses …

The Realities Only an Active Construction Consultant Knows I currently work for a construction consulting firm that primarily secures contracts for lesser-known public civil engineering projects. Even as the “God of Construction,” I’ve come across articles highlighting various issues and complaints regarding the deliverables produced by construction consultants, but…

Hello, everyone. This is Enta. The other day, during a special construction project, I used a bit that costs 50,000 yen or more each, and this is what happened right from the very first cut... I totally get that a 6-inch bit is expensive and puts a lot of strain on the drill, but it’s still a bummer when it ends up like this after just about 25 cm on the very first cut, lol. Anyway, moving on... A brand-new ke...

Hello, everyone. This is Enta. The other day, two of our Vietnamese technical interns passed the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) N4. They achieved this after one year and six months in Japan. The difficulty levels are as follows. I hear they took the N4 exam this time and passed. For Japanese people, it’s not that difficult…

Hello, everyone. This is Enta. It’s been getting really cold lately. Since this is important, I’m reposting a previous article lol. This job site was especially cold—the water kept freezing over and over again. It was still okay during the day, but it was particularly cold in the mornings and evenings, so we had to make the grout set quickly…

Hello, everyone. This is Enta. Doesn’t doing the same tasks day in and day out get tiring? I was looking into various aspects of routine work. “Routine work refers to steady tasks performed repeatedly according to a set procedure, or to daily work. In a manufacturing plant, following a set of work procedures…”

Hello, everyone. It’s Enta. All this recent “KY” stuff… Isn’t it annoying? I feel like I’m going to get in big trouble for writing this, lol. Risk assessments and all that… Risk levels 2 and 3… It’s like, “What the heck is that??” right…

Too Many Blueprints That Expect On-Site Adjustments When working full-time in construction supervision at an architectural firm, I often come across blueprints that expect on-site adjustments—essentially, leaving everything up to us. Since I’m just a so-called “architect,” my main job is to verify the documents designed by our in-house architects, but “well…

Hello, everyone. This is Enta. I attended a training session the other day. They had acrylic panels set up at each desk, so it looked something like this lol. What do you think? It was a training session where we were surrounded by acrylic panels on all sides—front, back, left, and right. Well, it was a precaution against the novel coronavirus, of course. At every seat…