Express Project

General Description

The year is 2010. The Express 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 Express 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 desert areas are welcome to apply for positions.

Following are some site characteristics and facility requirements:

• Landscaping in the desert area where the site of the future building is.
• Design of energy efficient buildings.
• Low-rise adobe structural system solution.
• Management of local project teams.
• Planning, scheduling, cost estimating and construction of the low-rise adobe buildings to be built.
• MEP experts in design of HVAC systems in desert areas.
• LCFM experts in life cycle analysis and platinum LEED buildings

Electronic documentation requirements:

• Architectural design solutions should be presented in: AutoCAD2000, 3D Studio Max.
• Structural design evaluation should be performed using: DRAIN 2DX and SAP2000
• Construction management documents should use: Buzzsaw Internet services, Timberline, Primavera.
• MEP energy and light simulation and
• Life cycle analysis and platinum LEED certification