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Oceanside Angler's Club David Pine Memorial Weight Board, Tanner Joseph Pine Jun 2022

Oceanside Angler's Club David Pine Memorial Weight Board, Tanner Joseph Pine

Construction Management

The David Pine Memorial Weight Board was constructed for the Oceanside Angler’s Club. I was contacted by this organization, to create a weigh board in founding member David Pine’s memory. The club had a previous weight board that was destroyed due to the harsh conditions of the coast. The process of building this board incorporated many of the facets taught in the Cal Poly curriculum. I had to work with the owners in order to create a suitable design, materials had to be acquired using alternative methods, subcontractors were worked with to create components of the board, and a schedule …

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Dallidet Adobe And Gardens Vegetable Renovation, Nicholas John Campbell Jun 2022

Dallidet Adobe And Gardens Vegetable Renovation, Nicholas John Campbell

Construction Management

This paper will construe the steps of determining the original concept design by discussing the challenges of the current conditions of the scope work, coordinating with the Garden Director by insuring all his requests were met, recycling existing material, implementing skills learned in surveying, installing a new brick walkway, and renovating 31 planter boxes. All of this was designed and installed in the San Luis Obispo Dallidet Adobe & Gardens. These gardens are a historic site located in the heart of San Luis Obispo where the public can utilize this area for certain events. The goal for this project was …

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Skip The Grid: Giving Power To Navajo Nation, Ryan J. Schacherbauer Jun 2022

Skip The Grid: Giving Power To Navajo Nation, Ryan J. Schacherbauer

Construction Management

Skip the Grid is a project organized by Heart of America, a nonprofit, looking to improve the education and overall wellbeing of children and their families. Many residents within Navajo Nation do not have access to continuous power and rely on temporary generators or car battery to obtain any kind of electricity. Heart of America partnered with the Red Mesa School District to identify families that did not have power, which was impacting the children’s ability to complete their online schoolwork. This senior project was comprised of an interdisciplinary team responsible for installing a working solar system on twelve homes …

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Zoom Or Doom? The Cm Curriculum At A Glance During Covid, Alissa Rogers Jun 2022

Zoom Or Doom? The Cm Curriculum At A Glance During Covid, Alissa Rogers

Construction Management

Over the course of nearly three years, the Covid-19 pandemic changed the ways in which education is taught across the globe. Specifically looking towards the Construction Management (CM) department at California State University San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) and its curriculum, this paper surveys and analyzes the shifts made to the major-based course load. The basis of this study is the research of the potential modification of the CM curriculum classes in order to accommodate past covid restrictions. Studies have shown that individuals have suffered under the new online-based learning standard. In an age of altering restrictions, the study conducted …

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San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden Bridge Rebuild, Anthony T. Flores Jun 2022

San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden Bridge Rebuild, Anthony T. Flores

Construction Management

This paper will outline the process of designing, deconstructing, and reconstructing a utility bridge at the San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden. The San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden’s entrance was recently changed deeper into the property. The old entrance was at the front and was home to a bridge utilized by staff, volunteers, and visitors alike. This project’s goal was to rebuild the utility bridge so that it could be used by the facilities staff and volunteers when working on property. There was one student involved in this project who acted as the designer, performed the preconstruction work, and constructed the …

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Paso Robles Police Department Shooting Range Shade Structure, Parker Greves Smith Jun 2022

Paso Robles Police Department Shooting Range Shade Structure, Parker Greves Smith

Construction Management

The Paso Robles Police Department has a shooting range about ten minutes from their station next to the Paso Robles Regional Airfield. They have owned the property for years, making numerous improvements to the land and infrastructure to make it more conducive to shooting, much of the work has been done by other past Cal Poly students as well. With Paso Robles geographical location, it is regularly a windy place where the average high during the summer months is almost 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Naturally when spending hours shooting, shade breaks are needed which is where the necessity of a shade …

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Paso Robles Pd Roof Extension And Gun Cleaning Counter, Lucas Decasper Jun 2022

Paso Robles Pd Roof Extension And Gun Cleaning Counter, Lucas Decasper

Construction Management

Over the past few years the Paso Robles Police Department and the Cal Poly Construction Management Department have developed a professional relationship. Paso PD, looking for a cost-efficient solution to upgrading their shooting range decided to partner with Cal Poly students looking to gain field experience and complete their senior project. This shooting range, starting as just a few targets in an open area, has been developed into a 24-hour usable training facility equipped with storage, water, and electricity. As part of the department’s requested scope, two gun cleaning counters as well as a roof extension to protect these counters …

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Skip The Grid: Solar Powered Refrigeration In The Navajo Nation, Sydney Jo Sitton Jun 2022

Skip The Grid: Solar Powered Refrigeration In The Navajo Nation, Sydney Jo Sitton

Construction Management

The Skip the Grid project was a combined effort of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) students, and company sponsors SOLV Energy, Dometic, and Goal Zero, facilitated through the non-profit, Heart of America. The interdisciplinary project team successfully installed photovoltaic energy systems with refrigerators and lights for families within the Navajo Nation. Skip the Grid’s mission focuses on improving quality of life and providing access to clean, affordable off-grid energy. In the Navajo Nation, access to electricity and running water is not necessarily a given, with large disparities from family to family. This issue was exacerbated during …

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Skip The Grid: Installation Of Solar Powered Refrigeration In The Navajo Nation, Connor T. Avrit Jun 2022

Skip The Grid: Installation Of Solar Powered Refrigeration In The Navajo Nation, Connor T. Avrit

Construction Management

The Skip the Grid project was a project completed with the joint efforts of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) and many other company sponsors including Solv Energy, Dometic, Goal Zero and Heart of America a nonprofit. Skip the Grid’s project goal and outcomes was to improve the quality of life and provide clean sustainable off grid energy to families within the Navajo Nation. The Navajo Nation is located in the Four Corners region of the United States with approximately a third of its residents without the means or circumstances to be tied into grid level power. …

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Leed In Residential Construction, Harley Maria Holbrook Jun 2022

Leed In Residential Construction, Harley Maria Holbrook

Construction Management

Sustainable building has been an aspect of the construction industry for over 30 years and over the past decade has been a major emphasis in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industries. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) leads the push in creating a standard for building sustainably with a certification system that tracks the achievements. A point system has been created that gives builders criteria to follow to receive a LEED certification. This certification has been used widely in commercial construction but not as commonly in residential construction. This study aims to look at LEED in the residential building …

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Paso Robles Police Department Shooting Range Shade Structure, Kevin Jaggers Jun 2022

Paso Robles Police Department Shooting Range Shade Structure, Kevin Jaggers

Construction Management

The Paso Robles Police Department uses a private shooting range about 15 minutes from their station and nearby the Paso Regional Airfield. This range is used for training and certifications and the California Highway Patrol and other local law enforcement organizations have access to do the same. The Paso Police department received a grant from the state to make improvements to the range and they have decided to allow Cal Poly students to use much of the grant to complete senior projects at the range. With the climate in Paso Robles being quite hot, with summer temperatures frequently in the …

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The Construction Of Elevated Decks And Safari-Style Glamping Tents For Zoo To You, Conner W. Schmutte Jun 2022

The Construction Of Elevated Decks And Safari-Style Glamping Tents For Zoo To You, Conner W. Schmutte

Construction Management

This paper will outline and discuss the construction process of two elevated decks accompanied by the assembly of two safari-style glamping tents, built for the non-profit organization Zoo to You located in Paso Robles. Zoo to You provides rehabilitation and housing for endangered, injured, or otherwise illegal animals. The goal of the project was to create a new housing facility for guests to stay overnight on zoo grounds, in an immersive wildlife encounter experience. The housing facility was created using concrete and lumber construction followed by the assembly of premanufactured tents. Concrete was used to build the strong foundations required …

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Cvaf: Service Dog Kennel Construction, Luke A. Terrio, Spencer Allen Jun 2022

Cvaf: Service Dog Kennel Construction, Luke A. Terrio, Spencer Allen

Construction Management

The California Veterans Assistance Foundation Service Dog Kennel Construction project gave back to our country’s veterans by constructing new kennels for their service dogs. The previous kennel on the veteran residential site needed an upgrade due to the increased number of service dogs at the shelter. A team of two Cal Poly Construction Management students consisting of Spencer Allen and Luke Terrio worked to design, estimate, coordinate, and construct a new kennel structure for the site. The roles were divided in the project between the preconstruction and construction phases. During pre-construction Spencer’s role was to schedule the job and create …

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Using Extended Realities To Teach Construction Management, Ryan A. Duca Jun 2022

Using Extended Realities To Teach Construction Management, Ryan A. Duca

Construction Management

This project aimed to analyze the implementation of extended realities to teach construction management at the university level. Extended realities in this context are referring to augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR); these are the two for which funding was received by Cavrnus. The foundation for this project started with the pre-existing lesson for the California Polytechnic State University’s (Cal Poly) residential construction class. The original lesson was constructed with the students learning the wood framing of a house by reading. While this is a suitable learning method for some it is not the best for all. This project …

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Preliminary Design Of Vests For The Vest Hackathon, Amanda Schrader Jun 2022

Preliminary Design Of Vests For The Vest Hackathon, Amanda Schrader

Construction Management

The purpose of this project was to analyze the high visibility safety vest as currently designed and recreate a safety vest for use in the construction industry. Safety vests play a prevalent role in the construction industry relating to safety and productivity on site. A vest is used for being a high visibility (hi-vis) personal protective equipment (PPE) device that provides 360-degree visibility for its wearers while simultaneously working to help carry small, necessary items. In recent years, the design of safety vests is shifting with the increase of females in the industry, representing a larger variety of body types …

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How To Manage Material Costing For Future Projects During Shortages And Inflationary Times, John Chauncy Langton Jun 2022

How To Manage Material Costing For Future Projects During Shortages And Inflationary Times, John Chauncy Langton

Construction Management

No one knows precisely when a significant shortage or inflation of material will come. In the construction industry, the cost of materials changes daily. However, when Covid-19 arrived, the material price increased dramatically. Suppliers ran out of material, small companies couldn’t afford the material, and large companies had to compete with other larger companies more than ever. I had the opportunity to interview five well-informed construction owners and senior executives about their companies and what they did to survive unforeseen shortages and inflations in construction material. Inventory and pre-buying materials were vital in helping companies not have to pay a …

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Fence And Gates For The City Farm Slo, Mackenzie E. Ramsey Jun 2022

Fence And Gates For The City Farm Slo, Mackenzie E. Ramsey

Construction Management

This paper summarizes the construction of roughly 300 feet of game fence and two metal gates for the City Farm San Luis Obispo (SLO). The City Farm SLO is a nonprofit organization in San Luis Obispo, CA. They are focused on organic and sustainable agriculture. This paper will highlight the process for estimating, funding, scheduling, and constructing the fence and gates. This project aimed to provide a secure perimeter against pedestrians and wildlife. The project site is along the creek, attracting many unwanted guests. There were many obstacles to overcome throughout the project, from preconstruction to construction. Each phase had …

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Creating A Leed General Associate Exam Preparation Technical Elective, Isabella Erickson Jun 2022

Creating A Leed General Associate Exam Preparation Technical Elective, Isabella Erickson

Construction Management

Sustainability in building design is increasing in demand within the construction industry. The Construction Management program at California Polytechnic State University currently requires classes that address sustainable building, but does not have a class that specifically prepares students for professional certification in this field. The purpose of this course is to prepare students for the LEED Green Associate exam, which if passed, will earn the student the Green Associate credential. By offering this class as a technical elective, students will be given the opportunity to build off their previous knowledge of green building and pursue a certification that will help …

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3d Virtual Learning Spaces, Carter Melick Jun 2022

3d Virtual Learning Spaces, Carter Melick

Construction Management

Learning within the construction industry is challenging due to the complexity, size and variety of construction projects. This project aims to tackle these challenges through the use of 3D modeling and VR technologies. The project focuses on the teaching of structural steel framing with an emphasis on the stages/phases of construction. The first steps involved taking structural steel plans and using them to create a 3D model in Revit. The model is broken up into stages from foundation to roof framing to highlight the stages of construction. Once each model stage was finalized, it was imported into a 3D program …

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The Site Logistics Design Of The Shabang Slo 2022 Vip Stage, Natalie J. Hodgson Jun 2022

The Site Logistics Design Of The Shabang Slo 2022 Vip Stage, Natalie J. Hodgson

Construction Management

The objective of this project is to take some of the burden off the SHABANG Music Festival organizers and create a detailed plan on how the VIP section of the festival is going to be organized. The SHABANG music festival is an annual, local weekend event for the community of San Luis Obispo. The goal of this project is to create a plan that will be effectively utilized at this year's SHABANG festival. In working toward this goal, every aspect of the Construction Management curriculum that has been taught in our careers thus far will be utilized. For the Construction …

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Tini-Based Bi-Metallic Shape-Memory Alloy By Laser-Directed Energy Deposition, Yitao Chen, Cesar Ortiz Rios, Braden Mclain, Joseph William Newkirk, Frank W. Liou Jun 2022

Tini-Based Bi-Metallic Shape-Memory Alloy By Laser-Directed Energy Deposition, Yitao Chen, Cesar Ortiz Rios, Braden Mclain, Joseph William Newkirk, Frank W. Liou

Materials Science and Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

In this study, laser-directed energy deposition was applied to build a Ti-rich ternary Ti-Ni-Cu shape-memory alloy onto a TiNi shape-memory alloy substrate to realize the joining of the multifunctional bi-metallic shape-memory alloy structure. The cost-effective Ti, Ni, and Cu elemental powder blend was used for raw materials. Various material characterization approaches were applied to reveal different material properties in two sections. The as-fabricated Ti-Ni-Cu alloy microstructure has the TiNi phase as the matrix with Ti2Ni secondary precipitates. The hardness shows no high values indicating that the major phase is not hard intermetallics. A bonding strength of 569.1 MPa …

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The Ranch Property Improvements, Jack Mauldin Jun 2022

The Ranch Property Improvements, Jack Mauldin

Construction Management

The Ranch is a ten-and-a-half-acre property that offers employment opportunities for people with developmental disabilities. The Ranch focuses on growing small crops and plants that are then harvested by people with developmental disabilities, with the goal of giving them experience doing work on a farm-like property. The Ranch needed a more developed property; with very little areas to grow food and a chicken grazing area too small to support The Ranch’s goals, there needed to be some improvements done on the premises. The first proposed and completed improvement was to build a new garden box better equipped for the purposes …

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Optimizing Heavy Civil Internships Based On Student Interest, Nicole Nguyen Jun 2022

Optimizing Heavy Civil Internships Based On Student Interest, Nicole Nguyen

Construction Management

Many Cal Poly Construction Management students are expected to have at least one internship prior to graduating. With that being said, the construction industry has many sectors of work that one may enter. Internships are a good way for students to determine what kind of work they would like to go into whether it is commercial, heavy civil, residential, etc. The purpose of this research paper is to analyze what can be done to optimize a heavy civil internship based off student interest and experiences. Research was conducted via survey that was sent out to all Cal Poly Construction Management …

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Analysis Of The Retention Rate Of Students In The Granite Heavy Civil Minor, Sophie Harrington Jun 2022

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 …

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Caed Hasslein Student Competition, Greta R. Stout Jun 2022

Caed Hasslein Student Competition, Greta R. Stout

Construction Management

This paper outlines the development of the first CAED Hasslein Student Competition at Cal Poly, SLO. The College of Architecture and Environmental Design at Cal Poly, SLO has not yet been successful in creating a platform to engage students of all five majors to collaborate in an educational atmosphere. This project aims to challenge students to work in teams made up of all five disciplines in a Request for Proposal-style competition. This paper focuses on how the idea of this competition came to be and the steps that were taken to successfully write the competition problem statement. These steps included …

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Estimating And Project Management For The Construction Of A Visitor Deck At City Farm Slo, Eric Cederstrom Jun 2022

Estimating And Project Management For The Construction Of A Visitor Deck At City Farm Slo, Eric Cederstrom

Construction Management

This paper will outline the process of estimating and the project management of a visitor deck that was built at City Farm of San Luis Obispo, a local non-profit. The deck was built for the purpose of providing an area for visitors to observe the agricultural land where City Farm educates the community on ecology, nutrition, and sustainable farming. The construction of the deck was completed by three fourth-year Construction Management majors: Eric Cederstrom, Lane Lagomarsino, and Brett Jones. Each project team member was responsible for their own aspect of the project planning and all members collaborated throughout the entire …

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Design, Schedule, And Cost Estimate For New Cal Poly Football Office Building, Kyle Mccallum Reid Jun 2022

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 …

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The Efficacy Of Orange Lane Delineations In Highway Work Zones, Neetu Kaur Sidhu Jun 2022

The Efficacy Of Orange Lane Delineations In Highway Work Zones, Neetu Kaur Sidhu

Construction Management

With over 100,000 crashes in the work zone per year, it is essential that we as builders discover and implement innovative solutions to maximize field crew and public safety in high traffic areas. A recent trend in the Heavy Civil Construction industry has been the implementation of temporary fluorescent orange striping in active highway work zones. When traditional white or yellow lane markings are removed, a faint residue is left behind and as construction crews repeatedly shift lanes, multiple overlapping removal scars begin to create confusion for drivers that leads to an increased risk of crashes. To eliminate this confusion …

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Determining Student Interest For A Virtual Reality Safety Training Course, Courtney Martin Jun 2022

Determining Student Interest For A Virtual Reality Safety Training Course, Courtney Martin

Construction Management

The purpose of Cal Poly’s Construction Management Department is to provide students with the best education they can get so they can be prepared for the challenges they may encounter in their professional careers. This research paper analyzes students' prior knowledge of virtual reality (VR) and determines the interest in creating a Construction Management (CM) technical elective covering VR and safety training which can help educate and train students about safety, hazardous jobsite situations, and accident prevention measures. This paper also examines the advantages of a VR construction training course taught on campus compared to online training without VR. VR …

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An Analysis Of Construction Estimating Software, Guilianna M. Lozano Jun 2022

An Analysis Of Construction Estimating Software, Guilianna M. Lozano

Construction Management

There are various components that go into building a construction project. And regardless of the size of the project, construction projects have become increasingly expensive with cost escalations on the rise. The cost element of each construction project is critical to the success of the overall project. In today’s current industry, numerous resources are available that strive to assist the built environment with managing construction costs. Currently, construction firms are maintaining a competitive edge by using the technology that has been made available. The basis of this research, conducted using a quantitative survey, was to provide data that indicated which …

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