Thursday, March 8, 2012

Loads

In this activity we worked with steel joists and did an activity on calculating snow load, design load, etc... it was a tricky assignment doing it on our own but i think i got the right answers.  It was hard finding all the right numbers and grabbing correct data from the charts, but in the end it worked out.



Reflection: I didn't exactly enjoy this activity because it was very frustrating and hard to do on our own but i understand how to do it.  I think next time it would help if you would go through most of it with us.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Keystone Library project 3.1.1

We have been working on our keystone library for a long time.  It has been a fun, continuous project.  We started with an old warehouse and remodeled it along the way and created a nice library with a green roof.  It took a long time to go through all the requirements and make sure we had everything we need, but it was a fun project. 






I really liked doing this project.  It was nice to take a long time working on the same project to do it well and understand what we were doing.  We did alot of side activities to help us learn what we were doing to improve our library.  I think this was a great project and we should do something like it again.