Chapter 132 Provocation
Zhu Hongxing jumped into the dried-up pool, bent down to check the cracks at the bottom of the pool, straightened up after a while, and said firmly and clearly: "There is a geological anomaly in the soil at the bottom of the pool."
Zheng Meng laughed and said, "Engineer Zhu is really amazing. I can tell at a glance." He secretly complained in his heart. The engineer from the design institute who participated in the acceptance inspection that day also said the same thing.
Zhu Hongxing pointed at the crack and said to Zhou Ruowei, "Look, Deputy Section Chief Zhou, the crack is wide and smooth, which is obviously caused by excessive tension."
Zhou Ruowei, like Feng You, was a student majoring in architecture. He had a vague understanding of structure and mechanics, and nodded repeatedly as he listened: "Engineer Zhu, you are right."
Zhu Hongxing climbed out from beside the pool and asked Zheng Meng: "Director Zheng, did you invite me here just to look after the pool? If it's just to treat the pool, it's easy. Re-pour reinforced concrete at the bottom of the pool and increase the number of steel bars to increase the strength of the pool."
Zheng Meng said, "We are more worried about the expert building in Block 17. This is a dormitory building built for foreign experts. The factory requires it to be fully completed within three months. Now the main structure has not passed the completion acceptance, and the subsequent decoration and renovation work cannot be carried out. We asked you to come here to ask you to help us give us some advice and see if there will be any problems with the five buildings in Block 17 and whether they can pass the acceptance."
Zhu Hongxing frowned and asked, "Didn't you do a topographic survey?"
Zheng Meng motioned Liang Youkun to take out the geological survey report and hand it to Zhu Hongxing: "We have done it, but it was done ten years ago on a unified basis. The site is quite large."
Zhu Hongxing took the report, opened the topographic survey map attached to it, and asked Liang Youkun: "Which plot is the 17th neighborhood?"
After Liang Youkun pointed out the location, Zhu Hongxing asked, "From the blueprint, there should be no geological anomalies in this area. However... the drilling position may be biased. Didn't the construction team find anything when they were digging the foundation trench?"
Seeing Liang Youkun shaking his head, Zhu Hongxing continued to ask: "What is the foundation form of the expert building? What is the burial depth?"
"Brick and stick structure, reinforced concrete strip foundation under the wall, buried three and a half meters deep."
“How deep is the water table?”
"Four meters and two."
Upon hearing the burial depth, Zhu Hongxing frowned. "The shallow foundation is only 70 centimeters higher than the groundwater level. If there are geological anomalies underneath, there may be some trouble. Your concerns are justified."
He said to Liang Youkun and Zheng Meng, "Generally, such geological anomalies are not easy to expose in the early stage, but they may show cracks in the main structure during the later use, and even cause the building to tilt or collapse in serious cases. You are lucky to have discovered it early. If it weren't for the cracks in the pool, I'm afraid you would have passed the main inspection, right?"
Zheng Meng felt a little depressed when he thought that it was Tao Nanfeng who gave the warning.
Liang Youkun was eager to bring Zheng Meng down, so he deliberately mentioned: "It was Tao Nanfeng who proposed to test the pool first. She also said that if the pool can be filled with water, she would not be named Tao."
Zhu Hongxing was shocked. "Is there anyone who can predict that the pool will crack without any structural damage? Who is this Tao Nanfeng? Which structural mechanics expert is he?"
Feng You and Zhou Ruowei both looked unhappy.
Feng You tugged at Zhou Ruowei's sleeve. Zhou Ruowei smiled and said, "Engineer Zhu, Tao Nanfeng is just a girl in her twenties. How could she be an expert in structural mechanics? She and I are classmates. She likes to show off. I guess it's just a blind cat that caught a dead mouse."
Zheng Meng also added fuel to the fire: "Tao Nanfeng is a proud and arrogant person. She boasted that only she could handle this problem. No matter where the experts came from, they would be useless."
These words were obviously meant to sow discord, but they were very effective on Zhu Hongxing.
When Zhu Hongxing heard that "experts from anywhere are useless", his face fell: "How can Tao Nanfeng be so immodest? You know, science is endless, and no one dares to say that he knows everything."
Zhou Ruowei smiled and said, "Engineer Zhu has a high position, Tao Nanfeng certainly can't compare to him. Since we are here, let's handle it properly and let everyone see whether Kyoto's engineering quality doctor is more powerful or she, little Tao Nanfeng, is more powerful."
Zhu Hongxing nodded reservedly: "Then I will give it a try."
Zheng Meng was delighted to hear that he had accepted the job, and reminded him, "Engineer Zhu, the factory has a tight deadline for this project. The structural hazards must be eliminated within a month, because time must be left for renovation and post-processing."
Upon hearing this, Zhu Hongxing looked up at Zheng Meng and said, "One month? Are you kidding me? I am not a god. I must re-conduct geological surveys to find out the location, size, and direction of the weak soil layer before I can formulate a structural treatment plan. You want me to handle the entire project within a month based on a crack in the pool. It is too difficult and impossible!"
After that, Zhu Hongxing turned to Zhou Ruowei and said, "One month is only enough to complete the geological survey, find out the geological anomalies, and formulate a preliminary structural reinforcement plan. It will take at least two more months to implement it. The leaders of Jiangcheng Iron and Steel Plant don't know anything, they only know how to assign tasks. Although I am an expert, I am a human, not a god."
Liang Youkun muttered to the side: "The fertilizer factory office building was tilted so badly, and Tao Nanfeng found the problem at a glance, proposed a reinforcement and repair plan on the spot, and straightened the building in a week. It actually took two months for our expert building? Isn't that a bit inefficient?"
Zhu Hongxing heard his words and said seriously, "What are you talking about? Proposing a reinforcement and repair plan on the spot, and straightening the building in a week? Are you sure it's not a rumor? Anyway, I have been in this industry for so many years, and I have never heard of any expert who can find the crux of the problem without the help of instruments and equipment, and without geological surveys."
Liang Youkun said: "It's true. At that time, Tao Nanfeng was still a graduate student."
Feng You snorted: "Is it a big deal to study for a master's degree? She didn't even finish college and went straight to graduate school. Isn't it because of her father's help?"
Zhou Ruowei shared the same opinion with Feng Youzhi in that he could not stand Tao Nanfeng, and he nodded in agreement at the time: "Tao Nanfeng studied architecture just like me, and she is not a structural expert. How could she have transformed herself so dramatically in just three years?"
Zhu Hongxing listened to their discussion and found it even more unbelievable: "A graduate student majoring in architecture can actually come up with a structural repair plan? I've never heard of it. Could it be that she has extensive experience in infrastructure construction and has a high talent for structural mechanics? But... if she has such a talent, why bother studying architecture? Wouldn't it be better to do civil engineering research directly?"
Zhou Ruowei introduced: "Tao Nanfeng used to work as an educated youth on a farm in the countryside, and no one knows how she became the head of the infrastructure department. Because her father was a professor of architecture at Jiangcheng Architecture University, he got her into the school's junior college class for two years. In 1978, when graduate students were admitted again, she got a master's degree through the back door. She is good at taking shortcuts and back doors, but she has no real skills at all."
Zhu Hongxing said "Oh" and frowned a little.
As a college student of the class of 1960 who was admitted to Kyoto from the countryside through hard work, Zhu Hongxing couldn't stand those who took shortcuts by relying on their parents and ancestors, and his impression of Tao Nanfeng immediately became bad.
"Hmph! Don't trust what's said. If you believe in this Tao Nanfeng so much, then go ask her to handle it."
Zheng Meng saw that it was broken! Liang Youkun is really good at causing trouble instead of helping others.
He smiled apologetically: "Tao Nanfeng is too arrogant. She thinks we didn't worship her and just walks away. We will never cooperate with such a person. Let's ask Zhu Gaogong to help us solve the problem."
Zhu Hongxing really didn't expect that there is such a person as Tao Nanfeng in this world: "From what you said, even if Tao Nanfeng is really talented, his character is not good. Okay, I'll take another look and try to solve the problem as soon as possible."
He walked several dozen steps forward and backward along the cracks on the bottom of the pool, and signaled Zheng Meng to mark several locations: "Hurry up and contact the survey team to drill holes and take samples at these locations. The drilling depth should be at least ten meters. Notify me in advance when the samples come out and I will take a look at the situation and make a decision."
Zheng Meng nodded repeatedly: "Okay, okay."
Drilling and sampling takes time. Zhu Hongxing, Zhou Ruowei, Feng You and assistant Jiang Le stayed in the steel plant guesthouse, while Tao Nanfeng was busy on the other side.
Zheng Meng's curse of "starving" did not come true. In just one week, Tao Nanfeng had already taken on two completion acceptance projects and one canteen design task.
Party A has also learned to be smart. Instead of paying 500 yuan to invite Tao Nanfeng to participate in the final acceptance, it would be better to spend 1,000 yuan to ask her to do the architectural design, so that she must participate in the subsequent services and final acceptance.
Tao Nanfeng sat behind his desk with a large piece of white paper spread out on the table. He held a pencil in his right hand and drew on the paper while thinking about the preliminary design.
The design company had just been opened and was not fully staffed. After Tao Nanfeng took over the current architectural design, he directly transferred it to the teachers of Jiangcheng University of Architecture to complete. The university has complete supporting facilities such as architecture, structure, water supply and drainage, power supply, HVAC, and landscape design. No matter how big the project is, you can find professionals to complete it.
This is also the reason why Tao Nanfeng opened his design and consulting company next to the university.
The teachers at Jiangcheng University of Architecture receive a fixed salary, and professors only make more than 70 yuan a month, so their lives are not actually rich. Tao Nanfeng asked teachers to do private work, and the department turned a blind eye and treated it as an internship opportunity for teachers and students.
Zhizhi loves to stick to her mother the most. After having some crazy fun with Tao Nanfeng, she fell asleep on the sofa with a small floral quilt covering her belly.
Yu'er and Tao Ran were well-behaved and obedient, and stayed in the village behind the courtyard under the care of Liang Yinzhen.
It is true that the crying child gets the milk. Anyway, Zhizhi is the child who has occupied her mother's time the longest, no doubt about it.
Tao Nanfeng looked up at Zhizhi and suddenly remembered Liang Yinzhen's words: "The children all like their mother. Don't indulge Zhizhi just because she likes to cling to people. You should also spend some time with Yuer and Tao Ran. Especially since Tao Ran is a boy and is timid, you should take care of him more."
When there are too many children, it is difficult to balance them and you will always lose sight of one while focusing on another.
Tao Nanfeng took out another piece of white paper and drew a child's room on it with a few strokes.
The reception room on the first floor is too big and unnecessary. It would be better to separate out a children's room for the children to play, study and have two kindergarten teachers take care of them.
While he was thinking about it, he saw two figures coming straight towards him out of the corner of his eye.
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