Igniting a New Paradigm of Open Source Ideas – One Community Weekly Progress Update #436

This week the core team continued review and feedback on the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping and then began editing the Grid-tie Energy Infrastructure Tutorial including the Table of Contents, Introduction, What is a Grid-tie Sustainability Plan, and Why Open Source the Grid-Connection Process.

Ian Oliver Malinay (Energy Modeler/Analyst) completed his 29th week helping run the energy analysis calculations to help us achieve LEED Platinum status for the Duplicable City Center. This week, Ian processed the energy modeling narrative documents as reference for LEED whole building energy simulation. He is now focusing on how to make a narrative document for a baseline model. Unlike the proposed model that typically uses information from construction documents or architectural design, the baseline model shall follow the rules or requirements from ASHRAE standard 90.1-2010. The ASHRAE 90.1 standard baseline model is useful to determine how efficient the actual building is. The energy modeler utilized this model to determine the percentage energy savings of the building. Please see below progress photos for reference.

David Na (Project Management Adviser/Engineer) completed his 22nd 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 assigning action items to his team. Throughout the week, David reviewed his team’s CAD work for the parking lot design that Daniela had been working on, and Carol’s pavement and walkway cross sections. He also went through and reviewed each comment that had been assigned to him on the Google Doc and either resolved it or gave feedback. As David reviewed everyone’s work, he inserted images to help with reader understanding throughout the doc. Lastly, David put in time to build an action item list for his team’s workload for next week.  Pictures below are related to this work.

Carol Nguyen (Civil Engineer) also completed her 14th week helping with the Sustainable Roadways, Walkways, and Landscaping tutorial development. This week, Carol added more details into the Main Pavement Types Comparison Table and Alternative Pavement Types Comparison Table (comparison criteria, score, ranking, etc.). She also incorporated the CAD drawings for sectional views of pavements into their respective portions in the report. Carol made edits to her roadway initial and annual maintenance costs tables, adding new requirements for separation of road classification of arterial, collector and local roads. She then wrote a section for the porous asphalt pavement on its problems with excess stormwater and on gutters as an alternative to controlling flooding. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Neel Shanbhag (Control Systems Electrical Engineer) completed his 8th week helping with the Duplicable City Center Electrical designs. This week Neel continued working on power and energy needs for various structures in the Duplicable City Center. He specifically worked on a general class of items and areas for different appliances and updated the related information on the spreadsheet. Pictures related to this work are below.

And Carlos Lillo (Engineering Technician) completed his 3rd week helping with the pallet furniture designs for the Duplicable City Center guest rooms. This week Carlos began producing 2nd level animations for the pallet furniture assembly animations previously generated. The new assemblies he completed animations for were the Bed Frame, Table, and Wardrobe. 3/4 of the products already have 1st Lvl Animations except the Table because of the processing time that the render requires. Carlos should end the 2nd level animations for all the products by next week. Pictures below are related to this work.

Dipanshi Batra (Mechanical Engineer) also completed her 2nd week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week Dipanshi worked further on the Gate Report document. She read up on failures of Geodesic Domes, DIYness of Hubs, and furthered her FMEA knowledge on Geodesic Domes. Dipanshi also read up on cost analysis and benchmarking testing requirements. She then created a Test Plan for the testing of the design of Hub Connectors. Pictures of some of this work are below.

Ibukun Shogbamu (Junior Mechanical Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the City Center HVAC Designs. This week Ibukun started doing research to be able to compare the initial mini-split HVAC system chosen for the Duplicable City Center to the proposed VFR/VFV systems to determine which would be most feasible. He described both systems and listed advantages and disadvantages for both. Ibukun then started research into the purchase and installation costs for both of the systems. The pictures below share some of this developing work.

Also, Andrew Wilbert Vidianto (Mechanical Engineer) joined the team and completed his 1st week working on the Duplicable City Center connectors we’ll use to build the domes. This week’s focus was learning more about City Center Hub Connector Analysis from the Google Docs, taking notes, and making a summary of the overall task. Andrew did research on some pre-existing connectors for the dome structure, made a rough draft of the hub connector types that are necessary for the structure, and started re-designing and re-calculating the dimension for the row 1 type 1 triangle in Solid Works for the first angle type. Pictures below are related to this work.

This week the core team completed 28 hours managing One Community emails, social media accounts, interviewing potential new volunteer team members, and managing volunteer-work review and collaboration not mentioned elsewhere here. The picture below relates to this. We also did more testing and bug identification within the Beta version of the Highest Good Network software.

Jaime Arango (Graphic Designer) completed his 33rd week, creating badges for the Highest Good Network software and graphics for the blogs. This week Jaime created images for weekly progress updates #507, #508, #509, #510, and #511. He also made changes on some of the badges he created in the past. He updated the badges for Torchbearer, Trailblazer, Chief and Cowboy team leadership badges.

Chris Weilacker (Software Engineer) completed his 33rd week working on the Highest Good Network software. Chris worked on finishing up the Create and Edit badges functions by leading Patrick on the entry of the majority of the badges into the dev system with OJ including the categories available, personal max, leadership badges etc. Chris also integrated comments from Jae on the bugs found in the badge system. Pictures below are related to this work.

Yueru Zhao (Software Engineer) completed her 23rd week working on the Highest Good Network software. This week Yueru mainly worked on the UI modification for the reporting page. She modified the UI on the reporting landing page, and changed the button style, adding the count numbers to the button. Yueru also made the whole page centered. On the people reporting page, she aligned the buttons, added a heat map for blue square data visualization, and made it so users can view the blue square frequency in a chart and dynamically see when they were assigned. The pictures below are related to this work.

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