Part A#
Develop strategies to address analysed client needs in a ‘real’ project that could be solved with detailed technical solutions in later stages.
Stage A starts the course by students collaborating on the construction of a physical scale model (A1), that will act as a ‘baseline building’ for your team to improve on.
In parallel the PMs will define the work that the whole team needs to do in the project plan (A2).
You will then use the building model to fill out an excel sheet that provides the benchmark building model (A3).
This stage also includes the definition of the Design Management Strategy (DMS) (A4) all subjects need to contribute to this to help PM to know what they need to do, but PM will coordinate and submit both the baseline building data and the DMS.
Finally Part A invoices (A6) should be submitted:
A1 Physical Building Model#
Make a model of the existing building document it with photos and then adpat it into a proposed building working in your team. We will provide limited new modelling material and encourage you to reuse the material used in the previous years.
The model should be:
Scale 1 : 100
Use the board you have been provided with and the previous material allocated to you.
For this exercise you should focus on:
Team building
Analysing the existing building through drawings and BIM and in person visits.
Analysing the Project and Client briefs
Understanding your role, the elements for you to focus on and the interfaces to others in the design team.
Learning from the previous projects
Satisfy the tests from the list of tests.
Submission:#
Produce a breif report / document including photos of
Existing building
Proposed building
Testing of the model Provide descriptions fro teh photos compile into a single document and provide to your PM to upload to the DTU learn site with the other required documents for Part A.
A1 Tests#
The Structure test (wind test)
The Fire test (Evacuating string test)
Best Model Award
The model that passes all the tests and get the most sticker votes.
Early Design Integration Award
The team that demonstrated the best interdisciplinary collaboration in the model building activity.
A2 Project Plan#
Primary responsible: PM
PM is primarly responsible for establishing project plan for the entire team. Each subject group has to identify the parts of the project, the associated deadlines and collaborative requirements for themselves as well as for the team across all stages (A, B, C, D) of the project and provide these to the PM in a timely manner for coordination. The project plan should describe the actual work and projected hours that is expected is needed to finish each stage of the Project. This is how you make sure that the work will be done to avoid any delays in payment from the client due to work not being done by the correct stage.
A3 Team Contract#
This is one of the first coordination tasks for the PM.
All subjects responsibilities#
The contract applies to all subjects
All subjects are involved into comprehending the contracts, its rules, and team decision.
Agree on the form of the teams
Additional PM responsibilities#
Submit one signed team contract per team.
The contract is created by the team’s PM through discussion with the members of the team
Upload of the contract online on DTU Learn.
A4 Design Management Schema#
The Design Management Schema (DMS) defines the responsibilities for all project deliverables. This should define what work you need to do. The DMS should describe the actual work which is expected for finishing the outline proposal at the end of the 13 week period. It should include a scheduled overview of activities. Examples of a DMS can be found on older projects, specifically: “2023_13W_Report_TeamXX_Sub6” and “CES_BLD_24_06_PM_Appendix”. These two projects can both be found on Learn.
Non PM Consultant Responsibilities#
Inform their PM about the tasks they and others need to do to complete their work.
Document their real hours spent on the project and invoice these to PM every week.
Inform PM on the hours they will spend each week on the subject, based on the tasks, to help PM predict the project budget (it includes design costs)
PM Responsibilities#
Coordinate the tasks of the subjects and produce the design management schema.
Collate the weekly predicted design cost include this in the design management schema and track and document this throughout the project.
A5 ICT Contract#
PM to complete an ICT Contract for the team. A template can be found on Learn.
A6 IDS for consultant BIM (Optional)#
Produce an IDS for each consultant to help them check their models. structure the requirements so that they are in project order.
A7 Benchmark Building Model#
Based on the construction of a physical model, fill in the supplied excel workbook (‘Teams.xlsx’ on Microsoft Teams) documenting the basic properties of the both the **existing building **and your proposed design. This is one of the first documents that the client will see so try and be as accurate as possible.
Existing Building#
Floor area (ground and above)
Building Height
F2F Height (ground floor)
F2F office floor
Total office area
Total desks
Proposed Design#
Floor area (ground and above)
Building Height
F2F Height (ground floor)
F2F office floor
Total office area
Total desks
You should think of this in 2 ways:
the most basic BIM you could imagine - no geometry - just the basic information for your design
This gives you an idea of a design that you can use as a benchmark / baseline - can you do better? what affect would this building have on your KPIs?
It would not be possible to produce a full shared BIM model at this stage, we are more interested in the information than the geometry in the early days, if you do not have a 3d model, could you share an excel with all the features and requirements of all the stories in the building and start to think about what they might contain?
A7 Invoices#
All non PM subjects need to submit invoices to their PM documenting the work they have done for Part A.
A template invoice can be found on Learn under PM.
The PM should then collect the invoices, total hours per consultancy and work tasks done into a single document that they submit with the rest of the documents.
The hours are counted per person so if two consultants have worked for 4 hours on the same task, then that’s 8 hours to invoice.
A8 Client Report#
Provide basic guidance to the client on what you have found from your analysis.
You should explain to them the implications of different different further analysis that you could do.
Structures#
Capacity of Existing structure (add more floors?)
Options for further analysis
MEP#
Current HVAC systems
Current energy level / class
Materials#
Current materials – what can be retained
Potential new ones where required
Geotech#
Soil assumptions
Knowledge about foundations
PM#
Analyse previous projects
Strategise how to acheive KPIs
Architecture#
Do the existing spaces work?
Where could additional spaces fit?
Part A Submission#
PM to gather all documents from the team and submit them under Assignment Part A in DTU Learn before the deadline. Please upload the following files as PDFs (25 is important as it represents a year):
25-[TEAM NUMBER]-A-ProjectPlan
25-[TEAM NUMBER]-A-TeamContract
25-[TEAM NUMBER]-A-ICTContract
25-[TEAM NUMBER]-A-DesignManagementSchema
25-[TEAM NUMBER]-A-BenchmarkBuildingModel (included online as part of Teams.xlsx)
25-[TEAM NUMBER]-A-PhysicalBuildingModel
25-[TEAM NUMBER]-A-Invoices
25-[TEAM NUMBER]-A-ClientReport
Note
We would like to be able to reuse your work (annonymised) in teaching and research to help us design better, more sustainable buldings, by making the work available to future students. You can opt out of this by including an optout.txt saying you do not give you permisssion for the work to be used in future research or teaching along with this submission.