This past week we have been working on our Terms of Reference document. This document has helped us to outline the scope of our project. Given the allocation of marks for this course and course objectives, we have determined what we would like to focus on for this project. We have also been developing sketches for possible house designs this week. We are planning to submit two design sketches to Habitat for Humanity and allow them to choose which design they would like us to pursue. We realized that there are many options for design to take once we met as a group and started to layout a house with the specifications provided from Habitiat. The drawings from previous Habitat projects provided to us helped us to refine our design. Determining the general layout of our projects was a fun task to undertake. Once we have been given a path forward from Habitat, we will be able to start our SketchUP model and begin the preliminary estimating and scheduling. We plan to meet again soon after the reading break.

On February 4th we met our client and she made her objectives clear for this project. Also, she gave us a brief introduction to their company by showing us around their office and restore. After obtaining all the necessary information about our responsibilities, we came up with a schedule with deadlines. We also assigned some tasks among the team.

On February 8th, we met our instructor to ensure we were on the right path. Moreover, we received some advice on what not to do on this project – information that we will pass on to the client. At this stage of the project we have been able to draw two simple design options on paper which will lead us to draw more detailed 3D sketches. Although we would love to work more on this project, our time is limited and unfortunately we cannot go into as many details as we would like.

Over the last two weeks we’ve been corresponding with Mr. Moir from Habitat For Humanity and we set up a meeting on Monday Feb 4th at 2. Also the other group will be joining us in the meeting. Mr. Moir informed us that the CEO will be joining us as well. During this meeting we hope to understand more about our client’s expectations for this project. We look forward to meeting them.