Six students from the Technical University of Civil
Engineering Bucharest (UTCB) practiced their knowledge for three weeks within
the construction company OCTAGON.
Remus Anuta, Andrei Besu, George Dulama, Ioan Lazar,
Valentin Nicolae and Maria Utu are students in the 4th year at the Faculty of
Hydrotechnics and have had the opportunity to visit the company’s construction
sites in Bucharest and see how works are being performed, but also spent a few
days in the tendering department.
The students spend their first two weeks of practice on the
site of the underground passage from Piata Presei Libere Square, where OCTAGON
is executing diaphragm walls.
The students were present to
all the construction stages and asked questions whenever they needed
clarifications related to the execution technique and the materials which were
used.
They were coordinated here by the Project Manager, engineer Dan Gerea, who explained to them the execution method of diaphragm walls within this project and the issues that can occur during execution.
The six students also visited Green Court Bucharest
construction site, where OCTAGON is building the superstructure of building B,
part of the office complex. The works started in 2014 and continued at fast
pace.The building has already reached the 8th floor of the total
11. The students were accompanied by
Mihaela Moraru, Quality Engineer, who indicated to them the most important
stages of the execution of reinforcement and concreting works, which are
currently performed on the construction site. 
In the last week some of the students, who expressed their
interest to see how the tenders are being prepared within the tendering
department, were coordinated by the company’s Technical Director, engineer
George Visan.
