Wave Project

General Description

The year is 2010. The Wave University is one of the major research universities in Central Europe. 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 Wave 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 Foothill area where the site of the future building is.
• Low-Rise structural system solution which addresses wind design requirements.
• Management of design-build projects.
• Planning, scheduling, cost estimating and construction of the low-rise building to be built.

Electronic documentation requirements:

• Architectural design solutions should be presented in: VRML, Microstation.
• Structural design evaluation should be performed using:  SAP2000
• Construction management documents should use: Bricksnet Internet services, MS Project.

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Renate Fruchter