Hi Everyone!

I hope your first few weeks have been going well!  I have graded all of your Initial Building Analyses and, for the most part, you guys all did really well.  By now, most of you have gotten the hang of catering your website to the rubric, and a lot of you received at least 80% of the points for all your sections.  Still, I do have some comments on where you guys can improve a little.  The first is references.  Please make sure you cite all of your references on a works cited page.  You are publishing your research on the internet, where it is available for most of the world, and it is unacceptable to use other peoples' work without given them what was due.  As it relates to the assignment, a lot of you had buildings that were difficult to find information on, which is fine.  One of the points of the Sketchup Model is so that you can use it to get missing information (or at least estimate it).  If there was a section diagram missing from your research, you should have taken a section through the Sketchup Model.  Additionally, I would like to make a comment on "systems,"  This class is meant to teach you about major structural and HVAC systems, so I don't expect you all to be experts, but when the rubric asks you to mention specific systems, you need to invoke the exact Structural System (i.e. moment frames, diagrid, bearing walls, etc.) or the exact HVAC system (VAV, CAV).  Reinforced concrete or flexural steel is NOT a structural system.  You all will learn this as the term progresses but I would be remiss if I didn't bring it to your attention.

If you decide to resubmit your assignment, please email me directly at amm543@drexel.edu, describing exactly what you have changed.  You have one week from today, so resubmissions are due next Friday, October 14th at midnight.

Hope you all have a great first week of midterms :)  Good Luck!

~Arthur