Central Project

General Description

The year is 2010. The Central University is one of the major research universities in the States. The University decided to build a new classroom and lab facility on their campus. The facility should support innovative courses which take a team approach to engineering design. The facility should function as a partially independent research and education center. Since the World Wide Web (WWW) / Internet is a commodity, the University decided to place an announcement and a call for letters of intent in response to the call for bids on the WWW.

Call for Letters of Intents from AEC Teams in Response to the following Request for Bids.

To Architect, Structural Engineers, Construction Manager, MEP, and LCFM consultants: The Central University plans to build on its campus a new classroom and lab facility to educate a new generation of Agile AEC Professionals.

Apprentices with an interest in designing buildings in central, metropolitan areas are welcome to apply for positions.

Following are some site characteristics and facility requirements:

• Landscaping in the central, metropolitan area where the site of the future building is.
• High-Rise structural system solution which addresses earthquake design requirements.
• Management of virtual teams.
• Planning, scheduling, cost estimating and construction of the high-rise building to be built.
• MEP experts in design of HVAC systems in central, metropolitan areas with high pollution.
• LCFM experts in life cycle analysis and silver LEED buildings

Electronic documentation requirements:

• Architectural design solutions should be presented in: TriForma, Microstation.
• Structural design evaluation should be performed using: ETABS and SAP2000
• Construction management documents should use: Blue-Line-On-Line Internet services, Timberline, Primavera.
• MEP energy simulation and sensor analysis
• Life cycle analysis and silver LEED certification