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Journeyman International: Karambo River Master Plan, Nick Somera
Journeyman International: Karambo River Master Plan, Nick Somera
Construction Management
My senior project consisted of an interdisciplinary partnership with students in the College of Architecture & Environmental Design and the non-profit, Journeyman International. My project team has been given the Karambo River Master Plan located in Rwanda, Africa. Empowering Villages, the sponsor for the project, has bought land to make way for new buildings in a fairly remote area with no existing utilities. The site, near the Mahoko village, will foster community, learning, and growing together. There will be a library, classroom, and multi-purpose building constructed for the surround villages in the area. Empowering Villages has also partnered with Afritech …
Journeyman International: Virunga Coffee Co-Op In Rwanda, Africa, Tanner Frikovich
Journeyman International: Virunga Coffee Co-Op In Rwanda, Africa, Tanner Frikovich
Construction Management
This project-based senior project is an interdisciplinary collaboration between students from the College of Architecture and Environmental Design at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and a non-profit organization, Journeyman International. The goal of this collaborative effort is to build a coffee cooperative per the request of Empowering Villages, an organization with the mission of empowering rural parts of eastern Africa with socio-economic development solutions. The project will include a community center, restroom, warehouse, and welcome center. The students from the Architecture, Architectural Engineering, and Construction Management programs designed the project and created its associated preconstruction package. The preconstruction package includes …
Journeyman International: Malawi City Cottage, Stefan Denny
Journeyman International: Malawi City Cottage, Stefan Denny
Construction Management
This report details the partnership between Journeyman International and City Cottage, to design and construct an educational facility near Lilongwe, Malawi. Journeyman International is a non-profit humanitarian design and construction organization with the mission of connecting top tier CAED students from around the nation to collaborate on philanthropic efforts in the form of senior projects. The proposed project is a 5,800 sqft educational facility built on an institutional land grant; designed to house an auditorium and additional classroom space. The project utilized rammed earth construction methods with steel reinforcement. This report’s focus is on the construction management process of this …
The Feasibility Of Implementing Solar Power On Construction Sites, Jordan Alves
The Feasibility Of Implementing Solar Power On Construction Sites, Jordan Alves
Construction Management
The purpose of the research conducted in this project is to determine the feasibility of implementing solar on a construction site as means of providing power. Power requirements as well as costs from the established sources were compared to the current costs of solar, more importantly, to the current cost of the specific solar setup needed to provide consistent power to the site. As a baseline, the project power requirements were based of the requirements of the civil site the generator data was pulled from.
Women’S Aquaculture Cooperative Program: A Humanitarian Project Through Journeyman International, Dalton Crump
Women’S Aquaculture Cooperative Program: A Humanitarian Project Through Journeyman International, Dalton Crump
Construction Management
The Women's Aquaculture Cooperative Program (WACP) is a partnership between the humanitarian platform Journeyman International (JI) and the African energy company Afritech Energy, who aims to provide sustainable, affordable energy to the most remote regions of Africa. The WACP is in the Bihongora region of Rwanda, which currently has no electricity or infrastructure. Afritech plans to build the 5,000 kW Bihongora Hydroelectric Power Plant and create Lake Bihongora in order to power and operate the aquaculture. The project will provide women in the region with the education needed to fully run, operate, and profit from the aquaculture "micro-business." The project …
Kihefo Vocational Center: Kabale, Uganda, Jason Matthew Angerer
Kihefo Vocational Center: Kabale, Uganda, Jason Matthew Angerer
Construction Management
Journeyman International (JI) is a non-profit organization which acts as a platform for bringing together volunteer Architects, Designers, Engineers, and Construction Managers with humanitarian projects around the world. Kigezi Healthcare Foundation (KIHEFO) a non-profit NGO located in Kabale, Uganda is a client seeking to build a vocational center to educate the workforce of Uganda. The center will include multi-purpose class rooms, a dining hall, rabbit farm, carpentry shop, and living complex. The Architect on the project was Courtney Wedel from Cal Poly. As the Construction Manager on the project my responsibilities include; Design Assist, Feasibility Analysis, Scheduling, Estimating, and Managing …