Sunday, November 13, 2011

Week of November 14

We will finish up the Habitat for Humantiy house design this week.  Students should finish up the electrical plan, and then we will look at the plumbing plan.  Both of these can be done by diagraming the wire (or plumbing) routing by hand on a clean copy of the floor plan. 

Remember that he required products from this project are:
  Construction Drawings
o   Site Plan
o   Rendering
o   Floor Plan (fully dimensioned)
o   4 Elevations
o   Interior Elevations of bathroom and kitchen (Optional)
o   Typical Wall Section including foundation(with labeled components)
o   Window Schedule
o   Door Schedule
o   Room Schedule
o   Electrical Plan
o   Plumbing Plan
·         Support Documents
o   2 Alternate Floor Plan Bubble diagrams in your journal
§  These sketches should be created during the client consultation.
o   1 Floor Plan Preliminary Rough Sketch in your journal
o   Final Floor Plan Sketch in your journal
§  This sketch is should be created during the consultation with your client and is the option selected. The sketch should be reviewed after feedback, approved and signed by the client.
o   Electrical Plan sketch
o   Plumbing Plan sketch

 Calculations
o   Water Supply Calculations (checked by peer)
o   Storm Water Runoff calculations (checked by peer)
o   Wastewater Calculations (checked by peer)


By request, we will then move on to allowing students to design their "dream home".