River Project
General Description
The year is 2010. The Mississippi
Riverbank 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 Mississippi Riverbank University plans to build on its campus
a new classroom and lab facility to educate a new generation of Agile AEC
Professionals.
We also accept apprentices that are interested in design of historic
buildings style design.
Following are some site characteristics
and facility requirements:
- Landscaping in the riverbank
area where the site of the future building is.
- Historic building style
design.
- Stone structural system
solution which addresses the design requirement for flooding areas.
- Management of
multi-organizational project teams.
- Planning, scheduling, cost
estimating and construction of the stone building to be built.
- MEP experts in designing under
floor systems.
- Cash flow and risk management
of historic stone buildings.
Electronic documentation requirements:
- Architectural design
solutions should be presented in: 3D Studio and AutoCAD.
- Structural design evaluation
should be performed using: DRAIN 2DX and ETABS.
- Construction management
documents should use: Timberline and EXEL.
- MEP: DoE-2
- Cash flow modeling tools.