Term Project Description

For my term project, I have chosen to create a fully functioning Revit model of a sustainable elementary school. This model will coincide with my senior design project, which is a submission to the ASCE Charles Pankow Foundation Annual Architectural Engineering Student Competition. Each year, the competition assigns a building with a slew of specifications. This year, the building must be an elementary school located in Reading, PA. The school must encompass several features including a green roof, a pool, community spaces, classrooms, offices, restrooms, a kitchen, a nurses office, a library, as well as an art classroom. My senior design team's interpretation of this project is to create a school that will be both energy efficient and sustainable, and a school that will adapt easily to the future demands of education.

Considering that I have previous experience with Revit, I thought that this would be a nice challenge in expanding my knowledge of the software. I believe that having a functioning model will also enhance my team's final design and presentation for the competition as well as for Drexel's senior design experience. My project differs from many other students in the sense that it is directly related to the capabilities of BIM technologies. However I feel that students such as Gabrielle, who are touching on the intelligent versus green projects will correlate to my project in a larger sense.

The specific challenges that I am hoping to address are:

-To create fully functioning "spaces" within the building which will give various data to a schedule which encompasses items such as: occupancy per room, area, volume, etc.

-To have several "model rooms" which are fit out completely with architectural and engineering components. Including finished architectural surfaces, furniture, mechanical systems, plumbing systems, and electrical systems.

-To add functioning mechanical components, which calculate items such as flow.

-To add landscaping features, as well as the green roofs that are required by the competition.

Hopefully the elements that I plan to add to the building information model will aid in helping me to gain a better understanding of Revit MEP and Revit Architecture software.


Sources:
http://content.asce.org/studentcompetition/guidelines.html

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