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INTRODUCTION

In order to complete my 2nd professional practice (work experience for University), I worked as an Assistant Administrator Engineer for Ingenieria y Construccion B&L Ltda from January to March, 2006, at the construction of two restaurants, Parrilla Grill, and China Grill at the Plaza Oeste Mall located in Santiago City.

My labour was very variable; I developed the budget, Gantt chart, drinking water and waste water system drawings and supervising installation works. Besides making engineering calculations, and the corresponding Iteming, I had to produce drawings using AutoCAD and also do several other office tasks.

This company was located in Santiago, the capital city of Chile.

BACKGROUND

The Construction and Engineering Company, B&L Limited, functions as building diverse commercial spaces such as: restaurants, bars, shops, etc. At that time B&L principally worked alongside Technical Restaurants S.A. RESTECSA a sister company that owns several fast food restaurants throughout the country such as Burger Inn, Meiling, Daily Topics, Vitto’s Pizza, and some others. Those restaurants are usually located in Malls, Airports, and in the downtown of the principal cities of Chile. N1.1

Construction and Engineering B&L Limited is a small company that was created in 1995. It was a Society founded by 3 Engineers, one of those whom I worked for was Mr. Gustavo Vargas Zurita. N1.2

Construction and Engineering B&L Limited has been working for many years on different steel structures, houses, warehouses, and piping for the iron and steel industry Gerdau Aza and furthermore as a contractor for the government. After a period of time, Mr. Gustavo Vargas Zurita, a Mechanical Engineer, began to work building many fast food restaurants in Santiago the capital city, Antofagasta in the 2nd region, Los Angeles in 8th region, Temuco in 9th region and Puerto Montt in 10th region. N1.3

It was for such reason that the company was highly recommended to

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