The Civil Engineering students are first broken into teams. There are building teams with structural engineers and geotechnical engineers and then there are teams of environmental engineers and transportation engineers. The goal of each building team is to develop a structure in its entirety, ours being a hotel. Analysis of zoning codes for our plot of land was the first element researched before even thinking about loads. A full analysis of the live and dead loads to be expected in a hotel were to be calculated and allowed us to find and locate where the steel skeleton beams and columns should go. This project required a lot of teamwork and cooperation as the transportation teams were designing the roads and parking lots for the hotel and the environmental team did site analysis. Finally, after the loads were known and the steel columns and beams had been sized, the geotechnical portion of our team developed the foundation. We utilized computer programs such as RISA 3D, Revit, and Robot Structural Analysis to aid us in the design.
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