Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 25th, 2012 1 Comment »
Octagon Box This week we completed our construction of our three boxes. Over 33 hours of work were put in by our group, and unfortunately not our whole group was here to complete it as half of us were away for reading week. There were few complications and miscommunications that caused the build to […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 15th, 2012 1 Comment »
Update 5: Since the last week of ours has been without any news for our CSL project, we will post more updates for this in our final blog post. In this update, we will discuss similarities and differences with regards to Project Management in CIVL 201/202. We have begun on an extra project for Susan […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 9th, 2012 1 Comment »
This week, we were preparing the final items before the build. While nothing too exciting was completed, it was mostly just “tying loose ends” to prepare ourselves for the construction phase. We estimated material quantities and costs, and then created document lists of items to be purchased for our client. We forwarded it to Helen, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 2nd, 2012 1 Comment »
Since meeting our client, we have been making a lot of progress on our project. At our Monday meeting in CIVL 202 at the Design Studio, we decided on three prototype box drawings. The three designs are a square, rectangular, and octagonal plan-view- see attached photos. Box Sketches As well, we began addressing the process […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 26th, 2012 1 Comment »
Update 2: This week was the second week of our CSL project for Evergreen. We had the opportunity to meet our client at their office this week, headed by Helen. On Thursday January 26, 2012 our group went for a site visit at 3:30pm for one half-hour. Helen showed us the garden where the dwarf […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 19th, 2012 2 Comments »
We are a group of 6 students in 2ndyear BASc in Civil Engineering at UBC who will be working on Dwarf Apple Tree Plants for our client, Evergreen. Helen Beynon is our contact individual with the client, with contact information set out in course document. Aside from introductions, January 16th, 2011 was our first meeting […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 7th, 2012 No Comments »
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