This week’s meeting was a team focus on completing the
project’s final presentation. Next Thursday
(May 24th) Team 8 will present their coffee shop to the other ACE
teams and mentors. The floor plan, bubble diagram, structural plan, roof plan,
HVAC plan and elevations have all been scanned into pdf and power point slides
have been created. The team put the
finishing touches on the construction cost estimate, making sure that we came
in below the budget. This was an iterative process of checking the overall
construction cost and lowering/raising the quality and quantity of such
features as the café’s furniture, or the kitchen and bean roaster. The students
debated on where to trim expenses and in the end the team came in just below
the $1.2M budget.
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| Our Construction Schedule |
Once the cost estimate was finalized, we developed the construction project schedule for our coffee shop. With guidance from the mentors, the students created a list of major construction tasks; recalling topics discussed throughout the last 13 meetings of the ACE season. Earthwork, foundations, structures, HVAC/electrical, and interior finishing: all construction elements which the team had learned about at some point this year. The mentors took this time to explain the concept of scheduling, and how certain activities could occur concurrently, but others were dependent on the completion of subsequent activities (the foundations could not be poured until the earthwork has been completed). An 11 month construction schedule was developed for the coffee shop. The presentation was completed and slides were divided amongst the students for presentation. Now that the design of the coffee shop has been finished, the students have a week to practice the presentation.
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| Did I Mention the Coffee Shop has a Pac Man theme? |
Final presentations for the 2012 ACE Mentor program will be
held on Tuesday (May 22) and Thursday (May 24). Click here or more information on the events.
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