After a very informal but informative presentation by Jud Adams (President of Power Management) the students were rotated through electrical, plumbing and mechanical engineering exercises where the sized air duct, researched code on required number of plumbing fixtures and designed electrical circuits for an actual office building.
This link will take you to the presentation the provided our students:
We would like to encourage all current ACE students or those interested in Architecture, Engineering or Construction as a career to take advantage of a free architecture tour of the Frist Center for the Visual Arts on Saturday, February 7th at 4:30pm. The tour is sponsored by the Frist Center and is a great way to get a “behind-the-scenes” tour of the architecture of one of Nashville’s great landmarks as the building is the former main post office constructed between 1933 and 1934. http://fristcenter.org/calendar-exhibitions/detail/architecture-tour or @FristCenter on Twitter
The monthly tour is sponsored by Messer Construction, “(@messerwearebldg on Twitter)
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Here is the Building background information for those not able to take the tour: http://fristcenter.org/about/the-building
The architect on Team #3, JJCA, coordinated a partnership for our team with the Nashville Zoo! The zoo would like to build a Native Tennessee Exhibit which would feature local animals and breeding tanks to maintain the species population in the area. The location of this exhibit would be by the dinosaur trail. It will feature a small building with labs and space for breeding tanked with a fenced pond out front. The pond would have two mating alligator snapping turtles in it!
Snapping Turtle at the Nashville Zoo
The team has been tasked to develop conceptual design plans for the building and site that the zoo can use during funding presentations. The students will use AutoCAD and Revit to develop the plans, which will be supplemented by design narratives.
To better understand the zoo’s vision and context of the project, the Nashville Zoo invited Team #3 to visit.
ACE Mentor Team 3 visits the Nashville Zoo
ACE Team 2 is doing well! At our first “icebreaker” meeting of the year, we played Laser Tag at A-Game in Franklin. At this meeting, we also discussed our ACE goals for the year, and started brainstorming our project under the theme of “shelter”. We briefly overviewed each of the common professions associated with building construction, and got a feel for the interests and passions of individual students on our team.
During October, we met with Wasco to practice some bricklaying skills and learned about the roles of contractors and subcontractors, and the skills needed to effectively work in a construction trade. Later, we met with Civil Constructors and learned about site and grading work, and the technologies used by civil contractors to perform their work. The students also learned a little about surveying tools and broke into groups to compete in an outdoor activity to see which group could survey the footprint of a small building the fastest!
In November our team had the opportunity to tour the construction site of the Gulch Crossing building in Nashville. As colder weather set in, we met at the office of HMK Architects, and at the office of Robins & Morton, to work on the students’ “shelter” project, doing various exercises in Programming, Schematic Design, and Design Development. We are looking forward to getting back together in the new year!
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