Author: linettg

This weekend was EXTREMELY busy!  But as a result we made a ton of progress.  We finished up all of the welding work finally, assembled all of the slats for the doors, milled all of the columns, hip beams, and purlins, started priming and painting all of the steel, and started milling the rafters and [...]

Yesterday we finally got our first delivery of wood!  It was a bit of a chore bringing all of the boards in, but we were all excited to be able to start cutting.  The first thing we did was take an inventory of the shipment and then start nesting our pieces into them so we [...]

Happy Halloween!  This past weekend we worked on several different mock ups. Yesterday you got to read some about the doors, and today I will talk about the trusses.  There has been a lot of back and forth with these trusses.  We have talked about how it should be configured, whether there should be only [...]

Yesterday was a very important milestone for our project.  After our review on Monday, it is now time for us to wrap everything up and start generating construction documents.  Before we can do that however, we had to meet with a structural engineer to double check our design, and to solve some construction method issues [...]

As mentioned in yesterday's blog post, we have split ourselves up into three separate groups in an attempt to finalize our designs into 1 complete proposal.  The group I have been working with has been looking at constructability issues.  The purpose of the design is to be modular in that it can be easily disassembled, [...]

As you guys may already know, last Wednesday we had our second meeting with the Beach Company.  We each presented our individual design approaches and got a lot of insightful feedback from that.  From there, we have been broken down into three groups of three.  Each of the groups are looking at a different design [...]

This past week or so we have all be busy developing our own design approaches.  Many design ideas are drastically different from each other, but they all have some similarities.  Because these small structures are going to be moved around, it is important for their design to incorporate the ideas of both how they can [...]

This past Monday we hit the ground running doing some background research and precedent studies, trying to better understand the project itself, the culture of the area, and our limitations and opportunities.  As part of this research, a group of us decided to take a trip down 17 N in northern Mount Pleasant to study [...]