Getting Ready to Get the Job

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Getting Ready to Get the Job

• Getting as much information as possible prior to
  making the proposal
• Profile the project
• Anticipate constraints, standards, working
  relationships
• Research - become knowledgeable about that type
  of project
• Dont judge the information (yet)
• Requirements capture
• Use checklists (memory aid)
• Many other tools techniques available

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Problem Definition Checklists

• The direction of the engineering effort is
  totally dependent on the projects scope
  definitionengineering organizations should
  develop checklists for use in extracting needed
  scope information and design criteria from
  owners.
• taken from the Manual for Special Project
  Management by The Construction Industry Institute
  Publication

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Generic Questions for Problem Definition
How big is the problem? What is distinct about
the problem? What makes this a problem? What
events caused this problem? How long has it
existed? Why is it a problem? How did the
problem get started? Who has been involved? In
what way and why? Where is it located? Does
the problem pose a threat to people, the
community, the organization? In what
way? Does the problem have long-term or only
short-term effects? How complex is the problem?
How are the different aspects related? Can
some factors be handled separately?
Adapted from E. Lumsdaine M. Lumsdaine,
Creative Problem Solving
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Specific Problem Definition Checklist

• General conditions
• summary of work
• owner obligations
• working relationship between all project people
• authority and responsibility of engineer
• project description contradictions
• allowances
• extension for time delays
• tolerances
• changed conditions (unforseen conditions)

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Problem Definition Checklist

• General conditions
• fully defined scope of work
• pre-design, design, construction?
• measurement and payment
• field engineering services
• regulatory requirements
• special project procedures
• project meetings
• submittals/deliverables
• quality control

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Problem Definition Checklist

• General conditions
• materials and equipment
• commissioning
• contract closeout
• contract termination rights
• final payment
• maintenance
• temporary facilities and controls

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Problem Definition Checklists

• Sitework
• subsurface investigations
• topographic surveys
• property boundaries
• unusual/special features
• site preparations
• site improvements
• landscaping

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Proposal phase planning

• define the problem through strategic planning
• goals, objectives, criteria
• develop alternative preliminary design solutions
• select a design concept
• scope out the work
• anticipate staffing
• build a design schedule
• estimate your budget
• identify what you will deliver
• contract negotiations

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Strategic Planning

• Establish design goals
• state what the system (design) is to accomplish
• how other systems and the environment will affect
  the project
• generalized, brief statements

Design a branch post-office building with 100
employees that is to be constructed on a site
owned by the client. The building should
harmonize with neighboring structures. Design
must be completed within 90 days and construction
within 1 year. Construction cost is not to
exceed 500,000. taken from Merritt, Loftin,
Ricketts, Standard handbook for Civil Engineers
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Strategic Planning

• Objectives
• Provide the details
• What the system must satisfy to meet the goals
• Should include constraints and applicable
  standards
• In example
• Minimize fire exposure
• Minimize life-cycle costs
• Maintain quality design

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Strategic Planning

• Establish criteria
• At least on criterion per objective
• A range of values that the performance must lie
  to insure that the objective is met.
• In example
• minimize fire exposure - use 2-hr rated building
  systems
• maintain quality design - conform to the 1997 UBC

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Seba Dalkai SchoolReconstruction

• A Quest for Tradition

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Background

• Located on Navajo Reservation north of Winslow
• BIA school, K-12
• Board is on-track to reconstruct with traditional
  values elements incorporated
• Full Design Approval and Funding
• Will be competing for BIA construction

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Master Plan

• Demolish and rebuild
• save traditional structures
• utilized main building as museum/community center
• new classrooms, dorm, 7 residential housing
• Traditional Elements (examples)
• circular design
• east main entrance

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Master Plan

• Additional Elements
• reintroduce indigenous plants
• sustainability
• energy efficient
• water reuse
• multiple land uses (examples)
• instructional
• agricultural
• spiritual

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Project Concept Integrated Water System

• Design and cost feasibility
• Optimization of available water resources
• Simple to operate and maintain
• Safe
• Reliable
• Complies with applicable codes/regulations

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Preliminary Project Definition.A Discussion

• What is an integrated water system?
• What are its elements of design?
• What determines its feasibility?
• Cost feasibility
• Design feasibility
• What information is needed to design it?