Pacific View Project
General Description
The year is 2010. The Pacific View 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 consultants:
The Pacific View University plans to build on its campus a
new classroom and lab facility to educate a new generation of
Agile AEC Professionals.
Following are some site characteristics and facility requirements:
- Landscaping in the seaside area where the site of the future building is.
- Radial building structure for the special circulation program of the building.
- Design for special fire code requirements for egress.
- Reinforced concrete structural system solution which addresses all the earthquake and wind design code requirements for the specific coastal area.
- Management of this Pacific Rim project.
- Planning, scheduling, cost estimating and construction of the reinforced concrete building to be built.
Electronic documentation requirements:
- Architectural design solutions should be presented in: ArchiCAD, AutoCAD, and 3D Walkthrough.
- Structural design evaluation should be performed using: DRAIN 2DX and ETABS.
- Construction management documents should use: Timberline and EXEL.
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Renate Fruchter