DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
Everyone is hard at work getting material counts and final designs completed. The walls, trellis, benches, and shelves are being designed down to the hardware choices so they can be done before we start mock-ups. For the rest of the structure, we are pulling material counts in order to do shop drawings and an updated [...]
Pictured: David Pastre brainstorming solutions with the students. Getting back into the groove this semester hasn't been easy for anyone, but things are really starting to pick up pace. It has been all hands on deck to get material counts, design, adjustments/changes, and an updated cost estimate completed. As we work through these details we [...]
Not to be confused with PEMDAS, we’re currently figuring out the most efficient use of our time while we wait for the next steps of the project. Since we are waiting on the MOU (Memorandum of Understanding - a fun part of the legal process that we got to learn about) and the permits to [...]
We're in the end credits scene of the semester. Today we have our Community 1:1 breakfast presenting posters of our nonprofit work and the Cigar Factory closing social displaying projects from other classes. We're still waiting to hear if the City of Charleston can provide a more powerful generator to complete the welding job out [...]
The group has been making steady progress as we get close to wrapping up the semester. Yesterday we continued working on a variety of tasks. We just received structural updates from John Moore on the project with the Conservancy of the Sea Islands. With this information, we aim to apply the corrections to our construction [...]
Yesterday, the studio continued working on constructing the table and benches for Stephen Washington Park. We worked in two shifts, one in the morning and then an afternoon shift that quickly became the night shift after some hiccups. As the afternoon team rolled in, all the pieces were cut and mostly grinded, so a lot [...]
With the studio project in a hold as we wait for comments from our structural engineer, the students worked hard this weekend to finish up their projects for their Non-Profits. Every student has been working with a different non-profit to assist in a semester long project. Today, we will look closely at my (Ethan) project [...]
On Friday we had a special guest, Michael Orcutt, a plan reviewer for Charleston County, come in and give our construction documents a quick look through. He was previously a building inspector, so he has a strong background with building code. As one of only three reviewers for the county, we are very grateful that [...]
Today we finally got a draft construction document set off to John, our engineer for the project. The model has been completed and we've been wrapping up some finer details. Tyler and I have focused on refining the underlying deck structure and how multiple girders and joists connect at a single point. We may have [...]
Friday we took some time to determine where we were in the process of being able to produce construction documents. Our goal is to have them done in a timely manner so that we can get as much feedback from John Moore, our structural consultant, as possible. After discussion on larger scale elements within the model, we [...]