Island Project

General Description

The year is 2010. The Island University is a major research university. 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 energy efficient buildings.

Following are some site characteristics and facility requirements:

• Design energy efficient building in island areas where there are there are strong wind loads, such as hurricanes..
• Design of steel and RC structural system solution which addresses hurricane and strong wind load requirements.
• Management of integrated project delivery processes.
• Model-based planning, scheduling, cost estimating and construction.
• MEP experts in design of HVAC systems in island areas.
• LCFM experts in life cycle analysis and gold LEED buildings

Electronic documentation requirements:

• Architectural design solutions should be presented in: Sketchup and REVIT architecture.
• Structural design evaluation should be performed using: ETABS and RISA and modeling should use REVIT structure.
• Construction management documents should use: MS Project, Navisworks.
• MEP energy simulation
• life cycle analysis and gold LEED certification