Query 6: Make model-based predictions using a VDC project model

Submit as a pdf document in the Week-6 segment of the class Wiki.  Please see writing guidelines. Please prepare thoughtful, concise responses. Create one PowerPoint slide for each question, using at least 24 point font. Use the slide header to explain the content of each slide, based on the question in the query, and use Slide Notes to explain details.

Notes:

• All the software you need is on each of the CIFE lab computers
• Prepare the slides for presentation to the class.
• Please see tips for the techniques you need to manipulate software.
• This is a group assignment to be completed jointly by your class project team

1. (1 point) Briefly summarize your sponsor objectives for your project (e.g., build a particular kind of building with certain objectives) and your team objectives (e.g., explain use of particular types of models and analyses).
2. (5 points) Create an integrated Level-B POP and MACDADI model for your project. Show your:
   • POP-FFB model for your baseline design version. Please annotate to explain a few important features for your client.
   • Annotate and briefly explain your assumptions about the business objectives of your client, measurable objectives and important design features of a segment of the project that you plan to build as well as the physical, organizational and process elements in your Level-B model and the names of attributes whose values you plan to predict.
   • Annotate and briefly explain the description of of objectives, preferences, threshold values and evaluation of one design option in the MACDADI segment of your POP model as they relate to the sponsor objective of measuring and then improving schedule conformance
   • Show a generic PBS, OBS and WBS for the project and relate their contents to your POP model.
   • Briefly explain how a general contractor could use your VDC models to help track and manage your proposed objectives;
3. (2 points) Show an image of your 3D model of the project that is consistent with the specification of your POP model. Annotate your image of the model to identify two POP forms.
4. (1 point) Show a Quantity takeoff of your building and briefly explain its potential use to support design, procurement and construction. Explain any relationship of predicted quantities to any related project objectives from your POP model and MACDADI spider chart.
5. (1 point) Show a predicted rentable square foot "schedule" of your building and briefly explain its potential use to support design, procurement and construction. Explain any relationship of predicted quantities to any related project objectives from your POP model and MACDADI spider chart.
6. (1 point) Show one other predicted behavior for your project and briefly explain its potential use to support design, procurement and construction. Explain any relationship of predicted quantities to any related project objectives from your POP model and MACDADI spider chart.
7. (1 point) Show a B-level construction schedule for your project. Explain any relationships to the POP functions and designed forms.
8. (1 point) Show four annotated snapshots from a 4D animation of the construction or some time-varying operational behavior of your building project. Reference an AVI file that you have on YouTube.
9. (1 point) Show an image from the 4D animation that you annotate to show a time-space interference, e.g., a work face so close in space and time to another work face of another crew that you anticipate a potential safety or logistics interference issue.
10. (1 point) Explain your MACDADI analysis of the absolute goodness of your best design option and relative goodness of at least two design options. Explain whether or not your met your best design requirements, based on your interpretation of your MACDADI analysis.
11. (3 points) Show first draft of your final deliverable, including:
• Self-contained Executive summary of your proposed work using <= 150 words; ~2 images
• Summarize your VDC approach: POP, P, O, P models, > 5 model-based analyses that you have done or plan to do by the end of the quarter
• Summarize final report deliverables to sponsor, including >= 2 design options, > 5 analyses of each; evaluation of absolute and relative goodness; BIM guidelines
• Summarize the value proposition for your proposed use of Multidisciplinary VDC models and analyses on the project
12. (1 point) ORID analysis - briefly summarize the week:
    • Objectives: What facts did you see, hear?
    • Reflective Positive: What surprised or encouraged you positively?
    • Reflective Negative: What surprised or encouraged you negatively?
    • Interpretive: What patterns and insights did you get;  what are some  limits of what you saw?
    • Decisional: Identify  your next steps
15. Comments
    • How much time did you spend talking with fellow classmates about the homework?
    • How much time did you spend alone working on the homework?
    • What was one thing you leaned in doing the homework or assessment?
    • What is one thing you found confusing or irritating in doing the homework or assessment?

Last revised: 22 February 2012