Category: Staff Memos

Staff memos are memos to staff.
Purpose to annonce company policies, Process and procedures.
Emphasis is mainly on the process to follow

  • Connecting to Tek1’s Tekla License Server

    Connecting to Tek1’s Tekla License Server

    Documentation on how to do it, for all Tek1 Staff Only.

    Rules

    (1) DO NOT HAVE PIRATE LICENSES ON YOUR COMPUTER.

    Please contact me if you have any questions.

    No pirate licenses. This means genuine Windows, MS Office, and genuine Tekla licenses. In this organisation we pay developers/companies for their labour and services. We don’t steal. Moreover, I need to know the cost of operations, and costs we incur should be added to our invoicing. It is critical that our costs are accurate. If we have to resort to piracy in order to maintain profitability, then we ought to quit the business entirely and do something else.

    New Policy – Our Infrastructure

    • If you are in the office, then you should automatically connect to Tek1’s infrastructure via Meraki VPN. All you have to do is enter the correct internal IP Address.

    steel detailing: [email protected]

    For drafter: [email protected]

    Outside the Office

    • If you are accessing our VPN from outside the office, please follow the instructions in the following video:

    I will tell you the client vpn passwords and codes that you need in order to connect. Just msg me please.

    Old Policy was to connect via AWS VPN to Amazon Infrastructure


    (2) Disconnect your VPN connection when not in use. So others in our team can access. VPN connections are very expensive.
    (3) Do not share your username / password with anyone else.
    (4) Do not use these licenses for your own personal work – i.e. for Tek1 use only. This ties in closely with the first point re: piracy.

    VPN Access to our Tekla Licenses
    VPN Access to Our License Server

    Problems or Errors?

    Please read the trouble shooting page here.

    Administration Notes

    • Users must be added to the “Steel Detailing Group” to get access.
    • External users must be added to the: “External Contractors” group if they are contractors.
    • If staff should leave the organisation, they must be deleted from both groups. Access via Azure Active Directory’s portal.

  • How to do material take offs cheaply

    Take offs needn’t be expensive. If you want accurate reports and a good IFC model you can spin around, you can get it done easily, with some custom software. Now you can get your take-offs done cheaply, and with the quality being just as good.

    Check out this video, which explains it all:

     

    How we do Material Take-offs – Tek1 from Tek1 on Vimeo.

  • How to fill out your timesheet

    • Please see a generic time sheet solution below which I’ve developed – please use it for the time being before I develop a more robust solution.
    • Please fill this out honestly – 1 hour is one diligent hour of hard work. If you work slowly and take two hours – you can only write one hour on your time sheet. So it is in your interests to work as hard and as efficiently as possible. If you can think of  a way of doing something faster and/or better, please go ahead and do so – while communicating this to your team leads and Koshy as well.

     

     

    How to Use The Time Sheet from Tek1 on Vimeo.