Ridge Project
General Description
The year is 2010. The Mountain
Ridge University
is one of the major research universities in the States. The University decided
to build a new classroom and lab facility on their compus.
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 Wrold 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 Mountain Ridge 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 landscaping in mountain areas are welcome to
apply.
Following are some site characteristics
and facility requirements:
- Landscaping in the mountain
area where the site of the future building is.
- Linear building structure for
the special energy conservation requirements of the building.
- Steel structural system
solution which addresses all the earthquake design code requirements for
the specific mountain area.
- Planning, scheduling, cost
estimating and construction of the steel building to be built.
- MEP experts in building
monitoring systems.
- Cash flow and risk management
of steel structure buildings.
Electronic documentation requirements:
- Architectural design
solutions should be presented in: PhotoShop,
AutoCAD.
- Structural design evaluation
should be performed using: DRAIN 2DX and ETABS.
- Construction management
documents should use: Timberline and EXEL.
- Risk management modeling of
steel structure buildings.