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Analysis Of The Retention Rate Of Students In The Granite Heavy Civil Minor, Sophie Harrington
Analysis Of The Retention Rate Of Students In The Granite Heavy Civil Minor, Sophie Harrington
Construction Management
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the retention rate of the Cal Poly Granite Heavy Civil Minor program. This program began in 2020, with the first cohort graduating in Spring of 2022. Throughout the past two years, there have been several students who have joined the program, however they have decided to no longer pursue the minor. Through personal conversations, personal experience, as well as a survey directed to both construction management and civil engineering students, it was identified that scheduling concerns seemed to be a primary factor that was creating apprehensiveness in students. The survey showed that …
Design, Schedule, And Cost Estimate For New Cal Poly Football Office Building, Kyle Mccallum Reid
Design, Schedule, And Cost Estimate For New Cal Poly Football Office Building, Kyle Mccallum Reid
Construction Management
Around the nation, college football programs are building new football facilities to help their current players, coaches, and staff members succeed. These facilities can be additions to current buildings or completely new structures that have multiple functions. A common facility that is built is the football office building. New football office buildings are beneficial for programs because it gives players, coaches, and staff members a central location where coaches can hold meetings and players can interact with each other and support staff. These structures help bring everything that goes on in a football program come together. Because of the importance …
Journeyman International: The Well Rusororo Project, Maranda F. Maliska
Journeyman International: The Well Rusororo Project, Maranda F. Maliska
Construction Management
The Well Rusororo Project is based in Kigali, Rwanda on the same property of the Light Church of Kabuga. The non-profit organization, Journeyman International has teamed up with the Africa Mission Alliance in an effort to create a community campus available to the public. This project has been broken up into two stages; the first is a renovation of two existing buildings totaling 500 square meters, and the second is a ground-up construction of a 3,000 square meter multipurpose center. For their project-based senior project, this student volunteered with Journeyman International to assist in the creation of the following deliverables …
Development Of A Conceptual Design, Estimate, & Schedule For Cal Poly Track & Field Hurdle Shed, Jonathan Chagnon
Development Of A Conceptual Design, Estimate, & Schedule For Cal Poly Track & Field Hurdle Shed, Jonathan Chagnon
Construction Management
This paper details the processes completed to produce the conceptual design, estimate, and schedule for a track and field hurdle shed at the Cal Poly Track facility. The main objective for this project was to create a conceptual idea for the track team that would make use of the current open space at the facility and create more storage space for current and future equipment obtained by the program. By completing this project, the track team would be able to receive a design that would allow them to push the concept forward as possible, an estimate that would give the …
Journeyman International: Third Lens Ministries Development In Jonestown, Mississippi, Josh Riley De Mattei
Journeyman International: Third Lens Ministries Development In Jonestown, Mississippi, Josh Riley De Mattei
Construction Management
Jonestown, Mississippi has been known to be a place of poverty and in need of infrastructure. A nonprofit, Third Lens Ministries is developing housing for the people of Jonestown, Mississippi. Over the last 9 months, an architect Margy Maher, an engineer Autumn Wagner, as well as myself, a construction management major, have all collaborated in order to design, engineer and plan the perfect Dwelling for the people of Jonestown, Mississippi. While the scope of the project includes community centers and housing, our team’s scope was to focus on the residential development and site work. As the construction manager, my deliverables …
Resequencing To Make Up Lost Time During The Covid-19 Pandemic: Case Study, Enzo Av Rienzi
Resequencing To Make Up Lost Time During The Covid-19 Pandemic: Case Study, Enzo Av Rienzi
Construction Management
Construction schedules are typically built by organizing activities according to trades as a whole. The entire foundation is poured, then the entire superstructure is erected, followed by interior framing, etc. However, for projects with an unchangeable finish date such as a school, other scheduling methods must be considered when the project is faced with uncontrollable, force majeure events which threaten to delay the project deadline. In order to examine the efficacy of alternative scheduling techniques, analysis of a $50 million school project will provide insight into how tasks can be safely overlapped to gain lost time in a schedule. This …
Schedule Efficiency Associated With The Tilt-Up Construction Method: A Case Study, Jake A. Barron
Schedule Efficiency Associated With The Tilt-Up Construction Method: A Case Study, Jake A. Barron
Construction Management
Tilt-up is an efficient method of project delivery that is best suited for large, flat projects such as commercial warehouses and distribution centers. The hypothesis is that this method of casting wall panels on site, and then tilting them upright, allows for certain unique activity sequences which could provide faster project completion. In order to prove this theory, analysis of two tilt-up projects completed within a mile of each other by the same contractor, and assessment of their schedules, will provide insight into the specific tasks that allow for better delivery speed. This methodology paired with interviews of team members, …
Rodeo Arena Observation Deck, Ryan B. Fiorio
Rodeo Arena Observation Deck, Ryan B. Fiorio
Construction Management
This report details the process that brought about a large deck that was built at the Cal Poly Rodeo Arena by two students, Timothy Smith and Ryan Fiorio. The project itself was over a year in the making, starting from an idea of Ben Londo, the Cal Poly rodeo coach, to a lengthy approval process and lots of time to fundraise the required money. The project was completed in June of 2020. This project used TimberTech composite decking per the request of Ben Londo. It was also built extremely rigid with the use of pony walls instead of posts to …
Implementing Weekly Work Plan Lab Into Cm 214 - Residential Construction, David Maslan
Implementing Weekly Work Plan Lab Into Cm 214 - Residential Construction, David Maslan
Construction Management
A schedule is one of the primary components of any construction project and can determine the success of a job. Schedules most often contain high-level line items and lack the details it takes to actually implement daily work in the field. Subcontractors, as the specialists, understand the myriad of smaller tasks that a master schedule omits. It is the job of a superintendent to extract this information from subcontractors during pull plans, to build precise schedules, called weekly work plans (WWP). At Cal Poly it is expected that students receive a well-rounded curriculum in how to build various types of …
Habitat For Humanity Global Village: Means & Methods Of Construction In Trinidad & Tobago, Garrett Landress
Habitat For Humanity Global Village: Means & Methods Of Construction In Trinidad & Tobago, Garrett Landress
Construction Management
Habitat for Humanity Global Village is a sector of Habitat for Humanity that focuses on aiding in the construction of homes for those in need around the world. Habitat for Humanity Trinidad and Tobago has been part of Habitat for Humanity Global Village for many years and aids people in need on the Island of Trinidad in the Southern Caribbean. This paper will discuss the construction of a small home for a woman whose family was disowned by her father due to her reluctance to uphold traditional Indian values. Subsequently the family was living in poverty and currently residing in …
Develop An Mep Based Scheduling Learning Module With Industry Support And Guidance To Understand The Impact On The General Contractor, Andy S. Rios
Construction Management
The Construction Management (CM) program at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo is recognized as one of the best construction programs in country. The curriculum does an extraordinary job at teaching how to utilize software and technology to create a project schedule. The one thing that the curriculum lacks is learning sequencing of events when it comes to scheduling, and where to look to obtain this information. Although learning sequencing for scheduling is hard to teach because it comes with years of industry experience, it is important to have a basic understanding of how things come together to create a functioning …
Construction Of A House In Tijuana, Mexico, Adam Scianna
Construction Of A House In Tijuana, Mexico, Adam Scianna
Construction Management
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Remodeling Office For Growing Grounds, Kyle R. Fawley
Remodeling Office For Growing Grounds, Kyle R. Fawley
Construction Management
This project was my first real re-condition project for a portion of an office space for Growing Grounds Farm here in San Luis Obispo. The purpose of this essay is to look back onto my experience and see how much I struggled and learned, and how I can benefit from it in the future. Throughout my project, I made sure there was constant communication between myself and Craig Wilson, program manager for Growing Grounds Farm, with clarifications and several updates. I made sure to fit and complete the project within my tight schedule and adjust it throughout the process. Throughout …
South Bay Fire Department: Back Deck, Connor Ray Smith
South Bay Fire Department: Back Deck, Connor Ray Smith
Construction Management
Local fire station, Station 15, in the community of Los Osos, was in need of a deck to be built in the rear of the station. There was public support, funding, and a desire for an upgrade. With the help of the firefighters and administrative staff at South Bay Fire Department, a 285 square foot structure was constructed to operate as a relaxing area for on duty staff to use between emergency calls. The plan creation, estimating, and building of the deck took approximately a year to complete. An estimated 305 man hours were spent collectively on the project, with …