Next Week: According to our schedule, we will be meeting at Thorton Tomasetti’s office Thursday, November 3, 2011. Their office is located at 330 N. Wabash Avenue, in Suite 1500 (on the 15th floor): The entrance looks like this: You will get an introduction to both Construction and Engineering. We have a fun engineering activity planned […]
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Team 6’s first meeting will be tomorrow, October 27th, at Gensler’s office located at 11 E. Madison Street, Suite 300 from 5:00-7:00pm. This is what the building looks like: The Gensler mentors will be giving a presentation to introduce you to architecture. Lots of you listed architecture as your main interest – here is your
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Team One, It was a pleasure meeting all of you last Wednesday at the student orientation. We’re pleased that all of you have decided to participate in ACE and we’re excited to get started! Our first team meeting will be taking place this Thursday the 27th, from 4:30-6:30 at the offices of VOA which is
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Welcome to A.C.E. 2011-2012. We look forward to another fantastic year serving Chicago’s best and brightest students while introducing the professional fields of Architecture, Construction, and Engineering! The Chicago chapter of the national A.C.E. program is made up of 7 teams, each team enrolling up to 30 students and led by a group of young
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• Student Summary: During Week 6 we started to create a scale model of our design at 3”=1’, it has been very complicated to accomplish that in the small amount of time we have left. Everything has been coming along, all the hand drawings have been finished or almost finished. Last week Bernie Schmidt came
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[slideshow] Student Summary: In week 5 we continued working hard on the two different models. We worked hard on both models and drawings to present them in a way so that the community members could make their decision. On July 19, we had a meeting with the community members and in that meeting both the
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Student Summary: Last week we have been working very hard to finish scale models and structural designs for the two models. However, since they haven’t decided which project will proceed to be built, the students on the team will continue to work the same process for both models. Randy Herbsman came in to talk to
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Student Summary: In week 3 we started off with guest speaker, Andy Fossett who runs his own design build company, and he helped us with our design process. Then in the middle of the week we finished up our bigger models and digital models of the project and also discussed any extras to the
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The Chicago Associate Board is excited to offer two scholarships to former Chicago ACE students who are currently enrolled in Associate, Undergraduate, or Graduate programs in architecture, engineering, or construction. Please download this application for further details: 2011 Alumni Scholarship Application Once downloading, you will be able to electronically complete and email this form — it’s a
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Student Summary: During week 2 we had a guess speaker Thomas from studio Talo who discussed the design process with us. He explained to us that the design process is like a spiral, not a straight line. So we had to come up with a list of design criteria that each of those designs must satisfy.
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