쉐도잉 연습: Working as a Fire Protection Engineer - First Six Months Experience - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기

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It's now been half a year since I started working as a fire engineer
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and during that time I had a total of 53 projects ranging from smaller projects like sheds
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and offices to shopping centers and health clinics and here are some of my thoughts.
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For my first day at work I got a quick introduction to the basic commands in AutoCAD
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and the company's routines and was then handed the CAD drawings of a new building.
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I got a few minutes to look at it before having
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a meeting with my co-worker without really knowing anything about consultant
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work whatsoever where the drawings was for a new two-story shopping center with a two-story parking garage
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and this was going to be my first ever project.
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That specific project quite literally just started digging just around a month ago
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which got me understanding of how long the pre-building process of new buildings actually take.
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Now that I got quite a routine built I start every new project by going through the plans of the building, seeing a situation in comparison to other buildings,
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as well as a distance to the closest fire department.
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I then instantly start to sketch out the ideas of how
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the fire protection strategy can be made as efficiently as possible
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with my knowledge of the pre-accepted rulesets from the regulations before even writing a single word in the report.
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After sketching off the drawings, I get it up in the report, running down the criteria given for the specific risk category that the building is set in, using the regulation's 17 chapters on fire safety,
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ranging from a building's load-bearing capacity to securing the safety of the fire department in an emergency situation.
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If there's some parts of the regulation that seems a bit redundant for for the specific buildings or even hard to achieve, it might be needed to do some extra analysis,
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calculations or simulations to prove that the fire safety of the building is achieved without that specific criteria.
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So far during my 53 projects, there's been the need to do that for 60% of them.
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So it's quite a common practice.
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Doing this involves doing some other measures such as the installment of sprinkler systems where it's not technically a requirement, direct alarm to the fire departments,
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or just passive measures that will just secure a quick egress of the building.
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But I think I'll dive more into that in a different video.
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It gets quite hard to keep track of all the projects, as in a busy day you might work on up towards 10 different projects at the same time, so to stay organized I got a folder with shortcuts to all my projects,
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links from our work database, while also typing up the progress of each project onto my personal Notion page or OneNote.
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When I first started I was very afraid to do any mistakes, as a slight mishap from my part might result in an unsafe construction being built
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but luckily our internal quality control ensures
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that there's at least three engineers on each project where one creates the product one does a thorough quality control
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and a third person evaluates the quality control as the final
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step before the project is sent out to a customer
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if it's a more complicated project where some of the solutions
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are not amongst the regulations pre-accepted ones it might also require the separate quality control from a different firm
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which has their own multi-step quality control it really puts your mind to ease a little bit more than
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if you were the sole responsible person for each project.
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All in all, I really like my job.
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The fact that every building is different and
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that some buildings will require a totally new solution
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that needs to be simulated and documented to fit the regulations makes it that you're constantly learning something new.
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There's also different routes to take as a fire engineer, but becoming a fire safety advisor was most likely the best fit for me personally as I enjoy using my brain.
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And even though it's mainly an office job, you also get to go out on site and see what the sentences that you write in the report actually mean.
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Another route
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that I would personally consider doing is experimental fire research as
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you get to see more of what the different solutions Amongst other things actually does firsthand.
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So during my bachelor thesis we did multiple full-scale experiments and I had a lot of fun
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So we did experiments using water curtain sprinklers protecting windows towards an outdoor emergency path
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So you can watch this playlist next if you're interested in
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that it shows the whole process from gathering theory to finishing the actual experiments Anyways, thanks for watching and have a good one.

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이 비디오는 소방 엔지니어로 일한 지 6개월 된 사람의 경험을 담고 있어요. 첫 날의 긴장부터 프로젝트 관리법, 품질 관리 프로세스까지, 직장에서 자주 쓰는 실용적인 표현과 생활 영어를 배울 수 있는 좋은 기회예요. 특히 "프로젝트 진행 상황", "품질 관리", "현장 방문" 같은 직장 용어를 자연스럽게 습득할 수 있어요.

외우면 유용한 구문과 콜로케이션

  • routine built: "이제 일하는 패턴이 생겼어요"라는 뜻으로, "I got quite a routine built"처럼 사용해요. 직장에서 일하는 방식을 설명할 때 자주 쓰입니다.
  • pre-accepted rulesets: "미리 승인된 규정"을 뜻하며, 법적 규정이나 회사 정책을 이야기할 때 유용해요. "regulation's pre-accepted rulesets"처럼 사용합니다.
  • quality control: "품질 관리"로, 모든 산업에서 공통적으로 쓰이는 용어예요. "internal quality control"은 "내부 품질 관리"입니다.
  • on site: "현장에서"라는 뜻으로, "go out on site"는 "현장에 가다"입니다. 직장에서 현장 작업을 이야기할 때 필수적인 표현이죠.

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