Design Charette

1. In this project we all took up important rolls in making our bridge.  My job was the health and safety engineer so i got to research what they do and act like one in our charette.

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3.Here are our notes:

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Date/Time:

10/4/11 1:19-2:02 pm

Participants:

Dan: Health/Safety Engineer

Mark: Environmental Engineer

Collin: Cost Estimator

Trip: Structural Engineer

Blake: Architectural Engineer

Dan's concerns:

Everything we use is safe for the environment

Materials

Site must be safe at all times

Trip's concerns:

Has to be pleasing to the eye

Withstand tornadoes/hurricanes/earthquakes/river

Collin's concerns:

Stay within budget

Blake's concerns:

Design and construction of bridge

Mark's concerns:

Must not pollute air/water

Design Plan:

Build a bridge with a series of arches.  For the boating dock, build a simple runway to drop off boats and also create another building for people to throw away waste since the boat dock will create a lot of human traffic.

Ideas:

Possibly use steel instead of concrete for costs reasons

Use concrete so it will hold up better to weather conditions, since the bridge is going to be located in the wetlands.

Boad dock: create small for fishing and other small vessells

Make public facilities for waste and other various uses

Possible public facilities:

Rest stop

Bait Shop

McDonald's/Burger King/Wendy's

Public Restrooms - city planner says no using only McDonald's restrooms

Trip and Blake are currently working on the sketches

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5. -I learned that charrettes are really important for making a structure
-I liked the responsibility each of us had to make sure our job wad done thouroughly
-I think it would have been more fun to get to pick what we wanted to build
-I would make better sketches before diving right into the final poster next time