We began the night’s meeting by revisiting our three options for our final project. The three options were Theatre, Sports Museum, or a Low-rise Mixed-use building. Students broke up into the same groups from last week to finalize their “discussion” points. They had to come up with pros for the project they were representing and cons […]
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For our first meeting of 2016, we started off with a plan set scavenger hunt. We broke up into groups and searched through a couple example structural engineering plan sheets to complete the scavenger hunt. Looking at the 22″ x 34″ plans (what we call full-size), we discussed a variety of “tools” used on plan sets, including
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The site visit is always a mentor and student favorite. At this week’s meeting, we met at Power’s site office in Streeterville before heading out to see two of their sites on Northwestern’s downtown campus. We started out learning about the projects. The first was the new Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) building. It’s a
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This week we started by finishing up the intro to disciplines. We saved the best for last – the engineers! 🙂 Staff from CE Anderson and Jacobs teamed up to give a presentation on several different civil engineering topics, including building structures and transportation engineering. To cap things off, the group watched a time lapse
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Tonight we began learning about what architects, engineers, and construction managers actually do. Each of three disciplines prepared a presentation and/or an activity to demonstrate and explain what it is we do on a daily basis. First up, the architects. They presented on the typical steps in the design process, going from a concept all the way
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Week 2 began with an unsolved mystery! Three suspects were identified in a recent job-site murder: an architect, a construction manager, and an engineer. The students had to figure out who the murderer was by asking questions and considering some key evidence found at the site. They asked some great questions, including what hours each
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We kicked off ACE officially on November 5th with a great presentation and intro to the program. We heard from a number of ACE leaders and ACE veterans before breaking out into teams. Turnout for orientation was great! We had plenty of new faces to get to know, parents included. We shared a little bit
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There aren’t too many updates from this week, but progress definitely continued! The architecture group began to look at the final presentation. The outline is in the works, and the group now has a better grasp as to what deliverables will be needed and what topics will need to be discussed during the presentations on
One week closer to final design! We started this week off with a project coordination meeting. The structural group presented their ideas to the architectural group and asked for feedback. The architects liked most of the structural ideas and layouts presented, so it was a relatively easy coordination meeting. After the coordination meeting, the groups
Team 7 has been busy over the last few weeks! The three groups continue to work on individual assignments within their specialty (architecture, structural design, or construction and scheduling) but there is plenty of collaboration between groups in order to keep things moving efficiently. The architecture group made a lot of progress over the past
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