Wang Nan: A Passion-Fueled Dream of Construction

Tianjin Olympic Stadium Project, Guangda Building Project, Tianjin No. 20 Middle School Project, foreman, project engineer, deputy project manager, Hexi National Defense Mobilization Command Center Project, Tianjin University Mechanical Group Project, Tianjin Public Security Bureau Two-Level Command Center Project—Wang Nan has written his own brilliant life with scientific rigor and full enthusiasm.
    After graduating from university in 2003, Wang Nan joined the Third Branch of Tianjin Construction Engineering Group General Contracting Co., Ltd., and has been there ever since.

Tempering Through Major Projects

In 2010, he led the Tianjin Zhujiang Friendship Home Building Materials Warehouse Project as project manager. As one of the 64 key projects in Tianjin for 2010 designated by the Tianjin Municipal Development and Reform Commission, the Jiefang South Road Comprehensive Commercial and Trade Belt has a total investment of 600 million yuan. Among them, the Tianjin Zhujiang Friendship Home Building Materials Warehouse Project has a total cost of approximately 200 million yuan and a total construction area of nearly 110,000 square meters, positioned as a high-end home shopping center.

In construction management, based on the project's characteristics of deep foundation and proximity to surrounding buildings, he organized project construction technical personnel and, together with the construction, supervision, design, and survey parties, specifically formulated the use of SMW method piles as the support structure for this project to reduce the support structure's footprint and increase the foundation construction operation surface. The plan passed expert demonstration and served as a guiding document for the foundation construction, ensuring the quality and safety of the foundation construction.

Based on the project's characteristics of large beam-slab cross-sections, high story heights, and multiple shared spaces, special formwork support plans and concrete pouring plans were formulated for key parts of large cross-section beams and slabs, and passed expert demonstration to ensure the feasibility of the plans for guiding construction, ensuring the construction quality and safety of key parts and laying a good foundation for the smooth completion of the project.

During the project construction, he led all project department personnel to overcome many unfavorable factors such as tight schedule, high difficulty, and large volume. Through innovative management and meticulous organization, they optimized the allocation of manpower, technology, funds, equipment, and materials, ultimately achieving the expected goals of quality, schedule, safety, cost, and civilized construction in the target responsibility statement, and received unanimous praise from company leaders, the owner, and society. Through scientific management and strict quality control, the project achieved a 100% pass rate in one-time acceptance, and the construction quality reached the national acceptance quality standard. The project won the Structural Haihe Cup from the Tianjin Construction Industry Association, the first prize of the 2012 Tianjin Excellent Project Management Achievement, the Tianjin Civilized Construction Site, and a national patent. The project department also summarized the experience gained in the hollow mold shell floor construction and incorporated it into the company's compiled compilation of construction technology standards for building engineering.

A Miracle in a Small Project

In 2011, Wang Nan led the Hexi National Defense Mobilization Command Center Project as project manager. The project has a total construction area of about 5,600 square meters and a total cost of about 24 million yuan. Once completed, it will become the People's Armed Forces Department with the most complete facilities, the most modern equipment, and the largest camp area among armed forces departments at the same level in Tianjin and even North China.

Although the construction area is relatively small, the project is of great significance and has received high attention from leaders at all levels of the Hexi District Government, Tianjin Garrison Command, and Tianjin Zhuzong. The project has complex construction items and high quality standards; the indoor and outdoor fine decoration grade is high, and equipment installation is complex, which are the key and difficult points of technical management. To this end, Wang Nan organized project technical management personnel and professional construction personnel to jointly formulate special decoration and installation construction organization designs to guide construction.

To ensure the quality of the installation project, during the main structure construction, the installation accuracy of reserved embedded parts was strictly controlled, and the finished surface height of the main structure and masonry was strictly controlled to create a good working surface for installation and decoration construction; during installation and decoration construction, measurement accuracy was strictly controlled, and the +50 cm control line was carefully measured and set for construction positioning. Before construction, he carefully planned the construction parts, construction sequence, and process handover to reasonably allocate construction surfaces and ensure that sub-items do not affect each other. Before construction, technical training and technical disclosure were carefully conducted to ensure that each operator is familiar with the construction content and understands the quality standards, facilitating quality control; at the same time, he required the implementation of the model room guiding method, that is, each sub-item first constructs a model room, and after confirming quality qualification, large-scale construction is carried out.

Through the implementation of multiple measures, the construction quality of the project is qualified, especially the installation and decoration construction effects met the requirements of the construction party, and the construction party is very satisfied with the construction results. Finally, with the collective efforts of all project department members, the project achieved the goals of starting construction, completion, and settlement in the same year, successfully completing the tasks assigned by company leaders, handing in a satisfactory answer to the owner, and receiving unanimous praise from leaders at all levels of the Hexi District Government, Tianjin Garrison Command, Tianjin Zhuzong, the owner, and society.

The Dream of the Luban Prize

In 2012, he led the Tianjin Public Security Bureau Two-Level Command Center Project and served as project manager. The project has a total construction area of 260,000 square meters over two phases, with an underground depth of more than 12 meters, 17 floors above ground, and a building height of 83 meters. The project has a large construction volume and high quality standards and has been positioned by the company for application for the Luban Prize. That year was in the foundation and main structure construction stage.

After receiving the construction task, he carefully planned and meticulously organized, and in the shortest time, together with other project department members, determined the construction plan and construction organization design of the project. The basement civil air defense construction, as a key stage of the project construction, coincided with the rainy season, so it was necessary to make every effort to ensure the structural construction quality of the basement civil air defense, ensure no leakage in the basement, and strive to ensure that the verticality and flatness of the concrete meet design and specification requirements. Under such circumstances, he took the lead in working overtime and staying at the site, seizing the dangerous parts of the foundation trench construction, ensuring the engineering quality of the basement, and now the civil air defense acceptance has been successfully completed.

The main building of the project is designed with 4 concrete-filled steel tubular columns with a diameter of 2 meters, running through from the basement floor to the top floor of the main building, with a height of nearly 100 meters. To this end, he organized professional technical personnel of the project to formulate a special plan, adopting customized heavy-duty large steel formwork according to the project characteristics, determining the height and weight of each section of formwork through calculation, and formulating a special hoisting plan to ensure the verticality and joint quality of formwork installation, thereby ensuring construction quality.

During his tenure, due to outstanding work performance, he was awarded the honorary title of "2012 Tianjin Construction Industry Enterprise Excellent Project Manager". While managing the project, he also actively participated in the research and development of new technologies. During his tenure, he participated in the research and development of 4 patented technologies and was awarded one Tianjin municipal-level and one enterprise-level construction method each.

Walking on the road of construction life, Wang Nan continuously overcomes obstacles on the road of life and realizes his life value. In 2014, Wang Nan set sail anew on a new journey.