I cannot find the words to explain how much I enjoyed today. I went to two project meetings with Chris, a mechanical engineer I shadowed for the day. The first project meeting was held at the Scottish Rite Hospital the meeting consisted of John the owner of the hospital along with two architects, two plumbing engineers, and three electrical engineers, the contractor from BEC and Chris. The purpose of the meeting was to finalize the project of the Scottish Rite Hospital Central Panel a new building that would connect to the existing building. However, certain issues are presented that had to be discussed such as where would the new sanitary pipe connect or would the pipe just go underground. They came to the conclusion that they would connect the new sanitary pipe with the existing sanitary pipe of the hospital. Therefore, the plumbing engineering and architect had to make changes on the sleeve plan diagram and the plumbing engineer took the plan with him in order to redo calculations. Another issue that was brought up because John who is the boss of the project wants the generators to be manually fueled but the electrical engineer insisted for that to be automatic, so they have to figure out that issue. Another, inconvenience was where the new generator and transformer would be placed. Everyone is trying to figure out this problem especially the mechanical engineer and the electrical engineers due to budget costs and requirements they must meet. As a result, Chris is chosen to do a proposal that is to be presented to John on June 8, 2011. I learned from this experience that it can be difficult to work in a project team with other people from different companies especially when there is a budget in play. This meeting lasted about four hours.
We rushed to the second project meeting which was held at the project site of the Perot Museum of Nature and Science. Before the meeting I met Chris’ partner Taylor, who is also a mechanical engineer. At the meeting who consisted of other people. At the meeting the sprinkler system and fire exit system, and the action of the dampers were discussed. Chris and Taylor are given the task to design a HVAC for a voyager that will be a ride inside the museum that should last about seven minutes and hold up to thirty people. Chris had shown me his calculations before the meeting started. His calculations implied an estimation about how much air was need taking in consideration of the heat. I learned that in the engineering will use the British metric system. Taylor and Chris presented their idea and will have a design by Friday. After the meeting I meet the project manager and the vendor for the project. I got to see the project site of the museum. I had a great time shadowing a mechanical engineer and seeing a project site.
The Architecture Design of the Perot Museum of Nature
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