Proposal Analyses
Theme
The theme that runs across all four of the following analyses is that the project team must ensure that unity memorial hospital remains fully operational during construction while coordinating with the owner’s additional renovation projects that impact sequence and scheduling. The following analyses aim at pursuing new solutions and applications to mitigate make the construction process easier and more efficient.
Analysis 1: Phasing Analysis of Temporary Pharmacy Relocation
The first analysis that will be completed involves improving the phasing of the project so that the work can be completed more fluidly and efficiently. This is going to be done by analyzing how creating a temporary pharmacy relocation would aid in a more fluid construction plan for the mail and linen rooms. The driving force behind this analysis is that the new pharmacy project is six months behind schedule and forcing the current phasing plan to be modified. This is expected to be a more efficient plan with less wasted time in the movement and allocation of workers and materials to a space.
Analysis 2: Managing Project Conflicts through Portfolio Management
This analysis stems from the conflict of various contracts due to the construction projects interfering with one another. The goal of the analysis is to evaluate a number of portfolio management strategies utilizes by numerous owners and owner’s representatives. Using this research, a comparison will be done between the original strategy and the alternative strategies, which will lead to choosing the optimal course of action for packaging different scopes of wok within Unity Memorial Hospital.
Analysis 3: Schedule Improvement through Prefabricated Ductwork
Because unity memorial hospital is on a strict schedule of completion, the project team is looking for ways to save on construction time. One of the solutions to this problem that will be analyzed as a part of this depth is the affect that prefabricating the mechanical ductwork will have on the project schedule as well as the budget.
Analysis 4: Virtual Reality’s Effect on Value Engineering
The final analysis will be done through the research of virtual reality and its applications in the construction industry. On the Unity Memorial Hospital Project, they utilized virtual reality to improve their value engineering practices. Further research will be done to evaluate other ways that virtual reality can affect value engineering.
INITIAL PROPOSAL
FINAL PROPOSAL
Breadth Topics
Breadth 1: Acoustical
The emergency room expansion project boarders the current emergency room, which will still remain operational. This means that a lot of the demolition and construction work will be completed on the other side of the main wall from patient emergency rooms. In order to ensure that these patients are not disrupted at any time, it is important that this wall is reinforced acoustically so the patients are not hearing loud construction that is happening on the other side of the wall.
Analysis: Research and analyze ways to acoustically reinforce the walls shared with the current emergency patient rooms based on the noise that will be generated during the construction of the emergency room expansion.
Breadth 2: Mechanical
The ductwork for this project runs to only the new air handling unit being installed by the owner, rather than the old AHU currently being used for the space.
Analysis: Size the new air handling unit based on the mechanical load for this renovation project and the additional hospital projects. Determine if it is more cost and energy effective to:
1. Use the old air handling unit for all new hospital spaces
2. Demo the old air handling unit and utilize the new unit for all new hospital spaces
MAE Requirements
As part of the Architectural Engineering Integrated Master’s Program, students take additional masters classes and demonstrate their knowledge of the coursework by relating ideas and research to their thesis projects. The main masters classes that will be useful during the analysis of Unity Memorial Hospital’s Clinical Decision Unit and Emergency expansion are AE 570: Production Management in Construction (Fall 2018), AE 572: Project Development and Delivery Planning (Spring 2018), and AE 597: BIM Execution Planning (Spring 2019). Please see the full length proposal that describes, in depth, the master’s classes which will be incorporated into the senior thesis and how their concepts will contribute to the analyses.