What is Construction Management all about?  Well last week we met for our second meeting at the office of Bovis Lend Lease to find out.  Mentors explained what the roles of construction managers are and the processes they go through in order to get a building constructed on time and under budget.  Students learned the differences between the project manager, quality control manager, safety manager, and laborer by participating in a role simulation game.  The objective of the game was to combine yellow and blue colored water to most closely match the control cup’s shade of green water (responsibility of the quality control manager) while spilling as little as possible (responsibility: safety manager), finishing quickly (responsibility: project manager), and perform the work skillfully and correctly (responsibility: laborer). 

CM Role Simulation

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Reminder:  Our next meeting on November 10th is to visit our project site.  We will be meeting at State and Congress (by the Harold Washington Library) at 4:30pm. 

Also, remember to be thinking/sketching/writing/photographing ideas you have on what would make an ideal school.

Welcome to ACE Team 5!

We met for the ACE student orientation this week at the School of the Art Institute.  Students were introduced to the ACE program and found out what fun things are in store for them this year!  This year we will be taking a tour of a construction site here in Chicago, learn what architecture, construction, and engineering professionals do all day, and will design a project of our own to present at the end of the program. 

Mentors and students introduced themselves by playing a game of 20 questions to guess the architecture/construction/engineering  related photo stuck to their forehead.  It was clear that we had a great group of students when they were all able to guess their photo (some of the mentors did not).

If you are assigned to Team 5 and were not able to make it to the orientation, please take a look at the Team 5 schedule and join us for our first meeting at Bovis Lend Lease  (One N. Wacker Drive, Suite 850) on Wednesday, October 27th at 4:30pm.

ACE TEAM 5 Schedule

ACE Team 5  Mentor Information/Firm Locations

Team 5 Contacts:

HOK:  BickVanh Cam  bickvanh.cam@hok.com

Bovis Lend Lease:  Chris Brooks  chris.brooks@bovislendlease.com

Halvorson and Partners:  Randy Herbstman  rherbstman@halvorsonandpartners.com

**please contact the host office if you are running late to a meeting