Part A

Part A#

Analyse the existing building and develop strategies to address analysed client needs in a ‘real’ project that could be solved with detailed technical solutions in later stages.

A1 Physical Building Model#

Make a model of the existing building document it with photos and then adapt 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 brief report / document including photos of

  • Existing building

  • Proposed building

  • Testing of the model Provide descriptions for the 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 gets the most sticker votes.

Early Design Integration Award

The team that demonstrated the best interdisciplinary collaboration in the model building activity.

A2 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 both the **existing building **and your proposed design. This is one of the first documents that the client will see so try to 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:

  1. the most basic BIM you could imagine - no geometry - just the basic information for your design

  2. 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?

A3 Project Plan and Design Management Plan#

Primary responsible: PM

PM is primarIly 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.

The Design Management Plan (DMP) defines the responsibilities for all project deliverables. This should define what work you need to do. The DMP 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 plan can be found on older projects, specifically: “CES_BLD_24_06_PM_Appendix” can 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.

A4 Team Contract and ICT 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 in 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.

PM to complete an ICT Contract for the team.#

  • A template can be found on Learn.

  • This is a living document that should be updated throughout the project. Particular care should be taken to define:

  • LOD for each stage in the project and the responsible consultant.

A5 Invoices#

  • All non PM subjects need to submit invoices to their PM documenting the hours work they have done for Part A.

  • All hours worked on the project such as team meetings, individual time should be included. The only hours NOT included are the lecture hours, every other hour should be counted and recorded.

  • 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. Make sure to include your hourly rates, and any calculations on how you have performed the invoice

  • You can use your own templates but it has to include the same necessary information as the found template on learn under PM.

  • Note: 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.

A6 Client Report#

This report is to be coordinated among all disciplines as there are also disciplinary requirements to be included.

  • Provide basic guidance to the client on what you have found from your analysis.

  • You should explain to them the implications of different further analysis that you could do.

  • Provide input on how you analysed and plan to proceed with the client requirements.

For more details and requirements of the assignment from your respective discipline, check the Subject Requirements

Below is a brief overview of the subject requirements_

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#

  • Strategise how to achieve KPIs

  • Simple BIM Model

Architecture#

  • Do the existing spaces work?

  • Where could additional spaces fit?

A7 BIM Model#

  • A simple BIM model with ifcGrid lines (PM/ICT responsible and to coordinate)

  • Ensure all team members have set up necessary software and as in the beginning of the stage you will need to set up a central model. Hence the need for the simple BIM model now. See Revit Collaboration if you choose to use Revit as your modelling software.

A8 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.

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 (26 is important as it represents a year):

  1. 26-[TEAM NUMBER]-A-ProjectPlan

  2. 26-[TEAM NUMBER]-A-TeamContract

  3. 26-[TEAM NUMBER]-A-ICTContract

  4. 26-[TEAM NUMBER]-A-DesignManagementPlan

  5. 26-[TEAM NUMBER]-A-BenchmarkBuildingModel (included online as part of Teams.xlsx)

  6. 26-[TEAM NUMBER]-A-PhysicalBuildingModel

  7. 26-[TEAM NUMBER]-A-Invoices

  8. 26-[TEAM NUMBER]-A-ClientReport

  9. 26-[TEAM NUMBER]-A-BIM

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.