Conor O'Loughlin - October 2019 Portfolio

CONOR TERENCE O’LOUGHLIN STUDENT

OCTOBER 2019

PORT
FOLIO

NAIT LAT LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE / TECHNICAL REPORTS

PORT-
FOLIO

SKETCH UP MODEL & RENDERING

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

4 ABOUT ME 16 TECHNICAL SURVEY REPORTS

A brief description of my background and experience Various reports produced during tenure with McElhanney Survey Group

6 AUTOCAD 18 SURVEY SKETCHES

A brief display of AutoCad works conducted during the NAIT LAT program A brief display of computer rendering work conducted during the NAIT

LAT program

8 COMPUTER RENDERINGS
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12 A brief display of computer rendering work conducted during the NAIT LAT
program

HAND GRAPHICS

A brief display of hand sketches and renderings conducted during the NAIT LAT
program

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

An outline of the design process

14 3D SURFACES & UAV

UAV photogrammetry, surface calculations, and technical reporting

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ABOUT ME

Conor O’Loughlin

I am a student of the Landscape Architectural Technology program at the North-
ern Alberta Institute of Technology. I am the current President of the recently
reformed LAT Student Society and am working to introduce professional devel-
opment events to my fellow students. Pending acceptance, I plan to continue to
the University of Guelph to continue my studies in the Bachelor of Landscape
Architecture program. Prior to attending NAIT, I worked as a Survey Party Chief
for McElhanney and currently work with the company as a part time draftsper-
son. As an avid fan of golf, I hope to be involved with golf course reclamation
and construction in my future career but am also very eager to work on large
scale commercial and municipal projects.

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Professional Experience 5

Northern Alberta oilfield / Edmonton area survey projects
Construction Surveying
UAV Operations & Photogrammetry Processing
Earthworks & 3D Surface Calculations
Precise Control Networks
Utility Locating & Reporting
Construction Administration

Landsape Architecture Experience

Student, Landscape Architectural Technology Program at
NAIT
Design Process
Site Administration
Construction Detailing
Grading & Calculations

Part-time work with McElhanney Summer 2019 / Work week
experience with McElhanney September 2019
Base Plan Drafting/Setup
Inventory/Analysis
Field Inspections / Site Observations
Concept Plan Drafting
RFP Summarizing
Cost Estimating

Volunteering Experience

Inn from the Cold
Meal Prep, overnight supervisor

Meals on Wheels
50/50 ticket sales

LAT Student Society
President

AUTO- ENTRY FEATURE
CAD
The graphics shown highlight an assignment from
6 the first year of the NAIT LAT program in which an
entry feature had to be designed and drafted with an

emphasis on construction.

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COMPUTER
RENDERINGS

SKETCHUP MODEL

Structures were created based off a
construction plan and objects were
added from the sketchup library for
this display.

RENDERING

Textures and plant material were
added and through irender, these

8 presentation images were produced.

PHOTOSHOP, INDESIGN
& ILLUSTRATOR

After graphics and images are produced,
Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign are
used to produce presentation boards,

covers, plans, and elevations.

The vision of “The Square Cafe” is to reduce the impact on the environment and to create
a welcoming and inviting place for all people to gather and connect. Each store design
is unique and reflects the use of local and natural materials to help connect our store
to the city and landscape it is located at.

Rendered by: Conor O’Loughlin

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HAND
GRAPHICS

PRESENTATION/CONCEPTUAL
GRAPHICS

Through the use of fine-liners, rendering markers, and
principles of perspective sketching, these graphics are
achieved.

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FIGURE/GROUND
RELATIONSHIP

The diagram to the left illustrates
a figure ground relationship and
how through the use of three
shapes, many different spatial
relationships can be achieved.

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DESIGN
DEVELOPMENT

PARKAY RESIDENCE DESIGN
PROCESS

We were provided with a Spanish Colonial house on a large
lot to develop a design for.
An Ideal Functional Diagram was drawn and informed
the development of a Concept Plan. From there, a Form
& Composition plan was drawn and lastly a Preliminary
Master Plan was created as the project deliverable.
Each of these plans were hand drafted.

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3D SURFACES & UAV

SURFACES & MODELING

The surfaces displayed on this page were created from two different meth-
ods and display two different types of information.
In the left image, a surface to surface comparison is observed. Aerial pho-
tos taken by a drone were overlaid and processed to create a point cloud.
From there, an as-built surface was created and compared to a design sur-
face provided by the client. The large amount of red/orange areas indicate
a vast amount of fill remaining.
The right image is an elevation exhibit of the rough grade base for a holding
tank. The surface was created from a 5m grid topographical survey. The
client was mainly concerned with having positive drainage from the centre
of the tank so by method of contour lines and colour mapping, positive
drainage is shown.

Imagery and As-Built data
collected August 17, 2019

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UAV EARTHWORKS REPORT

The report displayed above is an example of a typical deliverable provided to a client looking to see what areas of an earthworks project require cut and

which areas require fill. Typically a cut/fill map is produced from a surface to surface comparison and overlaid on aerial imagery. A “Heat Map” is also

produced from the same surface to surface comparison and areas of cut and fill are shown by colour with a corresponding legend.

TECHNICAL
SURVEY
REPORTS

SITE AS-BUILT

The map shown here was created
over a one month period. Two weeks
were spent in th field locating buried
facilities and collecting as-built data

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covers a 40 acre area.

PIPING EXHIBIT FOR
CONSTRUCTION
ERROR DETECTION

The graphic on the left is an exhibit
of the design vs. as-built elevations of
an installed pump, vessel, and piping.

BURIED STRUCTURES REPORT

The graphic below is one out of a four page buried structures report. Over a
one week period, every utility shown was located and surveyed and relevant
structures were also surveyed. The four page report was drafted as part of the
ground disturbance process for Pembina to install a short pipeline between

caverns at their Redwater Terminal site.

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SURVEY
SKETCHES

VALVE SITE SKETCH

An as-built sketch was hand drafted to aid the survey tech
drafting the data.

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CONTROL SURVEY SKETCHES

Shown on this page are examples of various control survey sketches. The
network is ran with high precision survey instrumentation and detailed notes of
observations is required. Lines between points indicate an observation was made

while the arrows indicate what direction the shot was taken.

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CONOR O’LOUGHLIN