Blueprint for Sustainable Global Collaboration – One Community Weekly Progress Update #441

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer) completed his 25th week helping with input and management of the Parking Lot and Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development, as well as the City Center Water Catchment Designs. David started the week by providing his team with a final weekly agenda for the Roadways, walkways, and landscaping tutorial. Carol finished with the cost analysis after making changes to the updated CAD that Daniela provided. David also reviewed and resolved the remaining comments on the google doc and also incorporated the stairs/stairway/stairwell section into the Google Doc. Pictures below are related to this work.

Vicente J Subiela (Project Management Adviser) completed 7+ months of working on the solar microgrid design, sizing, and cost analysis specifics. This week he exported the initial SAM file he’s been using to make the simulations of the energy balance. It is not completed though, since the annual demand profile has not been entered yet. The electricity rates should be reviewed and updated according to the electricity service company offer. Vicente also wrote the draft tutorial to carry forward this work.

Carol Nguyen (Civil Engineer) also completed her 19th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week, Carol finished the roadway cost calculations for roadway unlimited expense and minimized expense options. She marked numbers to the drawing and listed length and area for each segment of the unimproved bike/foot path. She also added several items into the tables and computed the costs corresponding to these items for electric vehicle, improvised bikeway, fire access path, unimproved bike/foot path (minimized) and fire access path, bike path, and pedestrian path (unlimited). Pictures below are related to this work.

Luis Manuel Dominguez (Research Engineer) completed his 19th week helping with research related to the City Center Eco-spa designs. This week Luis focused on the filtering mechanism of the City Center Spa to progress through the essential components needed for creating a power budget for the system. The City Center Spa design has been moving forward allowing for the design specifications of all components to be documented. This week the filtering mechanism was assessed to see what works best with our system. Luis discovered that using a cartridge filtration technique is the most water and energy efficient making it well suited for our application. Sustainability was a crucial element to the selection of the filter, and all of the components. Looking forward, the most crucial element in terms of energy demand is the pump. This will be crucial to the energy budget and the overall efficiency of the spa’s performance. Pictures below are related to this work.

Daniela Andrea Parada (Civil Engineering Student) completed her 12th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week Daniela continued various tasks regarding the roadways of the project site. She edited the arrangement of the roadway images and descriptions to provide better visualization for the reader. Later she incorporated additional information and cleaned up these paragraphs in order to provide clear explanations. Daniela also went through the Roadways, Walkways, Gutters and Pathways document to ensure that the materials being listed for the section correlated with what was mentioned in the document. In addition she added the unimproved bike and foot paths to the unlimited expense plan. After cleaning up some details on the CAD, Daniela completed the design of the Earthbag Village roadway and wrote some paragraphs regarding the decision making. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Venus Abdollahi (Architectural Designer) completed her 8th week helping finish the Duplicable City Center roof designs. This week Venus completed the second floor dormer window designs. She added both windows, gutters, and downspouts in the 3D SketchUp file based on the new position of the dormer windows. She created the 3D model of the gutters and downspouts for the City Center Living Dome and Cupola. See pictures below.

John Aquino (Electrical Engineer) also completed his 8th week helping lead the Duplicable City Center Electrical designs. This week, John created a folder called “_Template” which will standardize the filing convention moving forward for the Duplicable City Center project. In addition, a sample electrical sheet which will show power plans has been drafted and to be carried over for subsequent sheets (i.e. floors 1 to roof). With that said, an xref for the furniture plan (“FP_00 – OCG21001”) has been created and this format is expected for the remaining floors. They shall be derived from the master plan. Finally, an eTransmit filing standard has been developed for the purpose of downloading and sharing files as an organization standard. Pictures below show some of this work.

And Carlos Lillo (Engineering Technician) completed his 8th week helping with the pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms. Carlos continued adding final adjustments to the renders, as requested by Jae. He changed the reflective factor, modeled a new bracket and added bright colors to the screws to highlight them from other components. After correcting other minor animation segments he delivered the full animation for Pallet Table and began the final render of the Pallet Chair. For the Pallet Bed Carlos worked on correcting some camera issues and for the Pallet Wardrobe his next focus is importing previous animations. Pictures below are related to this work.

Ibukun Shogbamu (Junior Mechanical Engineer) completed his 6th week working on the City Center HVAC Designs. This week Ibukun did the cost estimation for the Minisplit Multi-zone and VRF systems, including creation of a spreadsheet to calculate the cost of outdoor and indoor units and all associated hardware. He finished the research paper comparing the viability of the minisplit multi zone and VRF systems. Ibukun also finished the spreadsheet comparing the viability of both systems. The pictures below share some of this work.

Andrew Wilbert Vidianto (Mechanical Engineer) completed his 6th week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week, Andrew generally spent most of his hours reading and researching a star wood connector design and wrapping up the design and FEA test on the V wood connector. He managed to design several types of star wood connectors in SolidWorks with the thickness reference from the best V connector, which is the 12-gauge metal sheet. Pictures below are related to this work.

And Xuanji Tang (Architectural Designer) completed her 2nd week working on Duplicable City Center architectural review and updates related to the structural code. Her focus this week was revising the occupant loads table in the City Center Project Specification and Design Basis Google Doc and calculating the number of plumbing fixtures needed for each floor. She also started a table for the exits for each space and floor. The pictures below relate to this work.