Completion Building Inspection of our Puerto Maldonado Site

07 July 2017

Only 56 days until the big party!

This is a brief report on tropical Puerto Maldonado. Udo Klemenz, Doris Manco and I flew to site to make a final construction inspect the FM site and collect the land registration certificate from the local Notary lawyer.  

Udo and I created a list of defects for the builder.  This was necessary as we cannot always be present to monitor the work due to the tyranny of distance.  But on the whole, we are satisfied with the result.

There was also an electrical engineer on site as a representative for the supply authority Electro Sur, where we have discussed out needs and were presented with a cost estimate for the work to be performed the following morning.  It was a lot more than we expected, as we believe liberty was had with both materials and labour.  Our only avenue to contest this is to discuss it with Electro Sur management, which invariably would take us to their head office in Cusco.

 

Coming in to land at Puerto Maldonado interfacing the Amazon “selva” (jungle).

The notary presents the registration of the property from the Registro Público (Land Registry).

Here I am measuring the ground resistance of the 4 tower legs using our digital ground meter (Fluke 1623) with test probes distanced out in the surrounding soil.  This process is to ensure our grounding system is as designed and that lightning does not cause us a problem in the wet season.  I needed to make some quick reconfiguring to the earthing system (a challenge in our tight schedule) per my original design with our builder on site, in order to reach our target resistances.

The finished tower stands at 50 meters to reach the thriving metropolis of Puerto Maldonado.

The finished tower stands at 50 meters to reach the thriving metropolis of Puerto Maldonado.

For interest – at this time the Christian Perú folk group “Kerygma Canta” from Lima enriches the morning service in the hospital chapel.  The Quecha congregation come alive with their brand of music.  Later, Kerygma Canta are recorded in our Centro de Medios for our radio and TV broadcasts.

Regards,

Chris