Project
This course is a problem-oriented research program. Students must face the problem that city in East India often flooded and design a construction which can defend floods. Students in the international cooperation (architectural design, structural design, budget control, safety analysis ..... etc.) conduct professional interviews, teamwork, brainstorming, and implements the proposed solution. The result will be present in the end of the semester and the experts in the relative fields will give the scores.
2014 CyberGRID Global Team Project Weekly Tasks and Deliverables
Week 2- Project Planning
Your virtual team has been hired to design a three-room extension to an existing building and propose a construction plan and estimate for the work. This week, your team needs to decide where to build the rooms. The team can assume that structural upgrades are not needed for a single story addition, but are required for multiple story additions. Each of the new rooms will be the size of one bay in the existing building. Once the layout of the addition has been agreed upon by the team, IIT can begin to model the addition in Revit. Remember to include demolition of any existing structural elements in the modeling, cost estimate, safety analysis and schedule.
Each team has been provided with a Revit model of an existing building. Your model has been imported into the space and you will find it in the yard outside of your conference room.
Deliverables: At the end of this week’s session, you will submit two items:
Week 3 - Revit Preliminary Model + Construction Schedule
Through collaboration with teammates from all universities, IIT-Madras will lead the modeling of the 3 room extension to the existing house in Revit during the meeting using tools available in the virtual world to ensure that their UW and UT teammates are familiar with this aspect of the design process. Teams are encouraged to work collaboratively so that during the modeling phase, requirements for the cost estimate, scheduling, safety analysis and 4D modeling phases are considered and incorporated.
Deliverable: At the end of this week’s session, IIT-Madras will submit the preliminary 3D model to Professor Mahalingam.
Preliminary Schedule
Through collaboration with teammates from all five universities, Virginia Tech will lead the development of the schedule during the meeting using tools available in the virtual world to ensure that their UW, UT, IIT and BU teammates are familiar with this aspect of the design process. Teams are encouraged to work collaboratively so that during the scheduling phase, requirements for the 4D modeling phase are considered and incorporated.
Deliverable: At the end of this week’s session, UW will submit the baseline schedule to Professor Dossick.
Week 4 – Navisworks Preliminary 4D Model
Through collaboration with teammates from all universities, the University of Washington will lead the development of the 4D model during this week's meeting using tools in the virtual world to ensure that their teammates from IIT are familiar with the 4D modeling process. Teams will be encouraged to work collaboratively so that during the 4D modeling phase, modifications to the 3D Revit model, cost estimate, and schedule will be noted and incorporated during the model optimization phase in Weeks 8 and 9. Develop the 4D model to represent the construction logic used on site as accurately as possible. Observe any sequencing, spatial or material consumption issues that arise.
Things to think about when designing this collaborative 4D model:
Deliverable: At the end of this week’s session, UW will submit the preliminary Navisworks model to Professor Dossick.
Week 5 – Presentation of Preliminary Design and Scheduling activities
Through collaboration with teammates from all universities, IIT and UW will orientate students from NTU and YU to sococo, and the project thus far. Recall your ice breaker from the first week and share the results with the new team members. Think about an "onboarding process" - what do these new team members need to know about the work you have already done? This is a work in progress presentation and a formal power point slide deck is not essential. The team is free to present in whatever format they choose and is encouraged to use their 3D and 4D models to explain the work thus far.
Week 6 – Design Refinement
Through collaboration with teammates from all universities, YU students will lead an effort to revise the design to address the new criteria of a flood safe house. They will seek to address the engineering challenge of addressing a flood area.
Deliverable: At the end of this week’s session, YU will submit “water & energy supply and sewage water treatment methods during a flood” to Professor Lee.
Week 7 - Preliminary Cost Estimate + Revised 3D Model
Through collaboration with teammates from all universities, Yonsei University will take the lead in developing the cost estimate during the meeting using tools available in the virtual world to ensure that their UW, IIT and NTU teammates are familiar with this aspect of the design process. Teams are encouraged to work collaboratively so requirements for the scheduling and 4D modeling phases are considered and incorporated as the cost estimate is created.
In addition, IIT students will work on updating the 3D model based on the revised design.
Deliverable: At the end of this week’s session, YU will submit the preliminary cost estimate to Professor Lee and IIT will submit a revised model to Prof. Mahalingam.
Week 8 - Safety Analysis + 4D model
Through collaboration with teammates from all universities, National Taiwan University and partners will lead the development of the safety action plan during the meeting using tools available in the virtual world to ensure that their YU, UW, and IIT teammates are familiar with this aspect of the design process. Teams will be encouraged to work collaboratively so that during the safety analysis phase, modifications to the cost estimate, and schedule will be noted and incorporated during the model optimization phase in Week 8.
In addition, the UW students will revise the 4D model to reflect the 3D model changes and any logistical updates from the cost estimating and safety analysis.
Things to think about when developing the safety action plan:
Weeks 9 - Model Optimization and Report Preparation/Planning
Using the 4D model and other preliminary models developed in Weeks 3-7, work together with your teammates to optimize the cost estimate and project schedule to alleviate schedule, quality and safety risks, spatial conflicts, resource shortages, and minimize labor cost. The optimization strategies should be actual strategies the project manager might employ to solve the identified problems. Please note that the interventions will be mutually interdependent between the models – for instance, changing the schedule to resolve a conflict in the 4D CAD model will lead to a change in the project duration. Try to achieve an optimal final solution where the project will complete on schedule, with minimal quality/safety risk, with issues identified in the 4D CAD model resolved. All members of the team should agree to this solution.
Deliverables: At the end of week 9, you will submit the following:
In Week 9 you should also plan out your report writing to occur between Week 9 and Week 10. The presentation should contain the following:
Presentation Preparation: Teams will prepare materials, including PowerPoint slides, for team presentations next week. Presentations will give teams the opportunity to showcase their models and discuss the most effective optimization strategies. In addition to the correctness and thoroughness of your presentation, you will be evaluated on the professionalism of your oral presentation. Your classmates will also prepare a peer evaluation of your presentation which will influence the presentation grades. Please practice, practice, practice your presentation in advance to avoid any technical issues and to ensure continuity.
Presentations should be a maximum of 15 minutes, followed by 5 minutes for Q&A. Keep in mind that it takes between 2 and 3 minutes to present a slide. At least one member from each university must present a portion of the team project presentation. While the slides will count for a portion of the grade, the grade will be based on the strength of the overall argument about the effectiveness and efficiency of the design that the teams present.
Deliverable: Final report (see submission criteria above).
Week 11 - Final Presentations
You will be presenting with your entire team in the virtual world.
Deliverable: Final presentation (submit .ppt or other).
Your virtual team has been hired to design a three-room extension to an existing building and propose a construction plan and estimate for the work. This week, your team needs to decide where to build the rooms. The team can assume that structural upgrades are not needed for a single story addition, but are required for multiple story additions. Each of the new rooms will be the size of one bay in the existing building. Once the layout of the addition has been agreed upon by the team, IIT can begin to model the addition in Revit. Remember to include demolition of any existing structural elements in the modeling, cost estimate, safety analysis and schedule.
Each team has been provided with a Revit model of an existing building. Your model has been imported into the space and you will find it in the yard outside of your conference room.
Deliverables: At the end of this week’s session, you will submit two items:
- Preliminary design concept showing the layout of the planned 3-room addition.
- Team process plan outlining how you plan to execute the project as a team, e.g. tasks, assigned responsibilities, deadlines. (Do you plan to share any responsibilities between schools? How will you share files? How will decisions be made? What units will be used in the models? Will someone be creating meeting minutes? What should you be doing now to prepare for the final report? How will your team handle time changes, exam weeks, and holidays/breaks?) Remember that we are asking you to do all of your work during your meetings in the virtual world with your teammates until Week 9 Report Prep.
Week 3 - Revit Preliminary Model + Construction Schedule
Through collaboration with teammates from all universities, IIT-Madras will lead the modeling of the 3 room extension to the existing house in Revit during the meeting using tools available in the virtual world to ensure that their UW and UT teammates are familiar with this aspect of the design process. Teams are encouraged to work collaboratively so that during the modeling phase, requirements for the cost estimate, scheduling, safety analysis and 4D modeling phases are considered and incorporated.
Deliverable: At the end of this week’s session, IIT-Madras will submit the preliminary 3D model to Professor Mahalingam.
Preliminary Schedule
Through collaboration with teammates from all five universities, Virginia Tech will lead the development of the schedule during the meeting using tools available in the virtual world to ensure that their UW, UT, IIT and BU teammates are familiar with this aspect of the design process. Teams are encouraged to work collaboratively so that during the scheduling phase, requirements for the 4D modeling phase are considered and incorporated.
Deliverable: At the end of this week’s session, UW will submit the baseline schedule to Professor Dossick.
Week 4 – Navisworks Preliminary 4D Model
Through collaboration with teammates from all universities, the University of Washington will lead the development of the 4D model during this week's meeting using tools in the virtual world to ensure that their teammates from IIT are familiar with the 4D modeling process. Teams will be encouraged to work collaboratively so that during the 4D modeling phase, modifications to the 3D Revit model, cost estimate, and schedule will be noted and incorporated during the model optimization phase in Weeks 8 and 9. Develop the 4D model to represent the construction logic used on site as accurately as possible. Observe any sequencing, spatial or material consumption issues that arise.
Things to think about when designing this collaborative 4D model:
- You will need to review the 3D model to understand the geometries so you can use them to develop the visual sequence of work. For example, as your team has developed the schedule, you may have wanted to divide the slab into two parts to do two different pours, but the model only shows a single slab. You either have to change the schedule or change the model to match. Alternatively, you can try using two different colors to abstract the two different pours using the single slab.
- You will be working with and coordinating with the schedulers (VT) with regard to a schedule.
Deliverable: At the end of this week’s session, UW will submit the preliminary Navisworks model to Professor Dossick.
Week 5 – Presentation of Preliminary Design and Scheduling activities
Through collaboration with teammates from all universities, IIT and UW will orientate students from NTU and YU to sococo, and the project thus far. Recall your ice breaker from the first week and share the results with the new team members. Think about an "onboarding process" - what do these new team members need to know about the work you have already done? This is a work in progress presentation and a formal power point slide deck is not essential. The team is free to present in whatever format they choose and is encouraged to use their 3D and 4D models to explain the work thus far.
Week 6 – Design Refinement
Through collaboration with teammates from all universities, YU students will lead an effort to revise the design to address the new criteria of a flood safe house. They will seek to address the engineering challenge of addressing a flood area.
Deliverable: At the end of this week’s session, YU will submit “water & energy supply and sewage water treatment methods during a flood” to Professor Lee.
Week 7 - Preliminary Cost Estimate + Revised 3D Model
Through collaboration with teammates from all universities, Yonsei University will take the lead in developing the cost estimate during the meeting using tools available in the virtual world to ensure that their UW, IIT and NTU teammates are familiar with this aspect of the design process. Teams are encouraged to work collaboratively so requirements for the scheduling and 4D modeling phases are considered and incorporated as the cost estimate is created.
In addition, IIT students will work on updating the 3D model based on the revised design.
Deliverable: At the end of this week’s session, YU will submit the preliminary cost estimate to Professor Lee and IIT will submit a revised model to Prof. Mahalingam.
Week 8 - Safety Analysis + 4D model
Through collaboration with teammates from all universities, National Taiwan University and partners will lead the development of the safety action plan during the meeting using tools available in the virtual world to ensure that their YU, UW, and IIT teammates are familiar with this aspect of the design process. Teams will be encouraged to work collaboratively so that during the safety analysis phase, modifications to the cost estimate, and schedule will be noted and incorporated during the model optimization phase in Week 8.
In addition, the UW students will revise the 4D model to reflect the 3D model changes and any logistical updates from the cost estimating and safety analysis.
Things to think about when developing the safety action plan:
- You will need to review both the 3D and 4D models to understand the construction work types so that you can identify the hazards and accordingly develop the methods of control. Therefore you will be working with the 3D modeling (IIT) and the 4D modeling teams (UW).
- You will be coordinating with the schedulers (VT) and the cost estimation team (UT). For example, your safety action plan may require a modification in the schedule or in the cost estimation.
Weeks 9 - Model Optimization and Report Preparation/Planning
Using the 4D model and other preliminary models developed in Weeks 3-7, work together with your teammates to optimize the cost estimate and project schedule to alleviate schedule, quality and safety risks, spatial conflicts, resource shortages, and minimize labor cost. The optimization strategies should be actual strategies the project manager might employ to solve the identified problems. Please note that the interventions will be mutually interdependent between the models – for instance, changing the schedule to resolve a conflict in the 4D CAD model will lead to a change in the project duration. Try to achieve an optimal final solution where the project will complete on schedule, with minimal quality/safety risk, with issues identified in the 4D CAD model resolved. All members of the team should agree to this solution.
Deliverables: At the end of week 9, you will submit the following:
- UW will submit the finalized Navisworks model to Professor Dossick.
- YU will submit the finalized cost estimate and flood design to Professor Lee.
- IIT-Madras will submit the finalized 3D model to Professor Mahalingam.
- NTU will submit the finalized safety analysis to Professor Kang.
In Week 9 you should also plan out your report writing to occur between Week 9 and Week 10. The presentation should contain the following:
- A description of the 3D modeling of the addition in Revit with annotated screenshots.
- A description of the quantity takeoff and cost estimate procedure with annotated screenshots.
- The schedule for the project and a description of the input factors you used to develop the model.
- The 4D CAD model with annotated screenshots of the project and a description of the input factors you used to develop the model.
- A description of the project hazards and the methods of control that may be used.
- A detailed description of how each issue identified during the optimization phase impacted the 3D model, cost, project schedule, position backlog, quality, safety and 4D model. Describe the changes you made to each of the models as a result.
- A summary of your team process. This summary should address how you collaborated over the duration of the project; the tools (inside or outside the virtual world) you used to collaborate; the tool limitations and how those tools could be improved to enhance collaboration; what issues arose during the global team project collaboration; how you dealt with conflicts; what role linguistic, technical savvy or other differences played in your team project execution; lessons learned , etc. Please devote at least 10% of your overall report to this section.
Presentation Preparation: Teams will prepare materials, including PowerPoint slides, for team presentations next week. Presentations will give teams the opportunity to showcase their models and discuss the most effective optimization strategies. In addition to the correctness and thoroughness of your presentation, you will be evaluated on the professionalism of your oral presentation. Your classmates will also prepare a peer evaluation of your presentation which will influence the presentation grades. Please practice, practice, practice your presentation in advance to avoid any technical issues and to ensure continuity.
Presentations should be a maximum of 15 minutes, followed by 5 minutes for Q&A. Keep in mind that it takes between 2 and 3 minutes to present a slide. At least one member from each university must present a portion of the team project presentation. While the slides will count for a portion of the grade, the grade will be based on the strength of the overall argument about the effectiveness and efficiency of the design that the teams present.
Deliverable: Final report (see submission criteria above).
Week 11 - Final Presentations
You will be presenting with your entire team in the virtual world.
Deliverable: Final presentation (submit .ppt or other).