Progress

FALL SEMESTER

09/14/2013

Dimensioned proposed spaces.

09/16/2013

Created preliminary schematic design in a rectangular footprint.

09/22/2013

Edited footprint to include possible extensions of the third floor, see rough draft schematic design in Documents.

09/24/2013

Met with Dr. Bechtel to disucss edits to layout.

10/01/2013

Decided to add a dormered fourth floor with cantilever features to the building and move the structures lab to the center of the buidling to make it the focal point.

10/13/2013

Edited layout to achieve better overlay for column placement. These layouts can be found in Documents. Determined internal live loads.

10/20/2013

Designed fourth floor cantilevers to allow for full height rooms within the dormered section.

10/22/2013

Determined external loads on buildings: roof, wind, snow.

10/23/2013

Modeled building frame in VisualAnalysis.

10/24/2013-10/29/2013

Worked on progress presentation.

11/12/2013

Designed roof truss geometry, modeled in visual analysis.

11/15/2013

Developed spreadsheet to calculate live load reductions.

11/25/2013

Finalized preliminary building frame model in VisualAnalysis (See Documents for images)

SPRING SEMESTER

02/5/2014

Reduced live loads were added to VisualAnalysis building frame model.

2/18/2014

Meshing on VisualAnalysis was refined in order to prevent errors in VisualAnalysis model and produce more accurate results.

2/25/14

Due to restrictions on the number of elements in building model, the model was divided into two seperate files.

3/20/14

Final model troubleshooting performed.

3/31/14

Fourth floor was analyzed.

4/3/14

Floors one through three were analyzed.

4/8/14

Sections were designed and selected for all floors of the building. The design consists of wide flange W sections as well as hollow HSS sections.

4/11/14

Quantity takeoffs were performed for the structural steel that will be used for the project.