Residence Inn by Marriott Rendering
Excavation as of June 15, 2007
 

Julia E. Phillips
Construction Management

   
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Technical Assignments

Technical Assignment #1 (pdf format)

The Residence Inn by Marriott is located at 2345 Mill Rd. Alexandria, VA. It is conveniently located near many government buildings allowing for long term guests on business to be close to work. The site is very constricted and is defined by the two streets that border the site as well as two metro tracks that cut through the Southwest side of the site.The Marriott is owned by Miller Global Properties and operated by Marriott staff. It is a 181 room, 15 story Hotel, post tensioned concrete structure, with 3 levels of underground parking on site. In Alexandria, Virginia, every new building that is designed and built must go through a rigorous approval process. The city must approve the building use, design, façade, exterior penetrations, colors, and each building must have at least 20 LEED points.

This document is intended to familiarize the audience with the project and analyze the current status of the project. This technical assignment analyses the Residence Inn by Marriott on eight levels. This analysis covers the project schedule, building systems, project cost in D42002 Cost and R.S. Means, current site plan, local conditions, client information, project delivery systems, and current staffing plan.

Technical Assignment #2 (pdf format)

This report is intended to analyze key features of the project that affect the project outcome.  This report contains a detailed schedule analysis, a site planning analysis of the superstructure phase, an assemblies estimate of the mechanical system, a detailed structural systems estimate, and a general conditions estimate. 

The detailed schedule highlights the concrete phase and interior phase of construction because they are the most critical for completing the project on time.  The site plan analyzes six different views to properly show the complexity of the site caused by the constriction by the three metro tracks bordering the site.  The assemblies estimate includes the HVAC, sheet metal, and plumbing systems with appropriate fixtures associated with each system.  The assemblies estimate totals $995,542.16 which is a great deal of the $6.2 million mechanical contract.  The detailed structural systems estimates the concrete and steel reinforcing for the mat foundation, one floor of the cast in place concrete and one floor of the post tensioned concrete.  One of each floor type was chosen to estimate because the interior bay sizes were very different; the only congruity was vertically through the types of floor systems.  The structural estimate totaled $3,540,139.47 which is relatively accurate without including the façade pre-cast concrete. The general conditions estimate includes engineering fees, main office and overhead fees, staffing, insurance, bonds, and contingency, utilities, barricades and fencing, permits, and miscellaneous site requirements.  Which totals $4,610,482.03 and is accurate based on the difference between the construction cost and total project cost.

Technical Assignment #3 (pdf format)

This report is intended to outline the ideas and steps needed to conduct my thesis research.  This document contains an overview of the PACE Roundtable in the Critical Industry Issues section, my research area in the Critical Issue Research section, Problem Identification of key problematic areas, Technical Analysis Methods describing how to analyze the problems outlined, and the Weight Matrix showing a breakdown of grading. 

The topics covered at the PACE Roundtable include the benefits of prefabrication, developing the work force, and implementing BIM.  These are current issues facing the industry that need to be addressed.  My critical research area addresses implementing green building technologies during the early stages of planning as to not increase the first cost of the project.  This is also tied into the problem identification area by applying those technologies to the acoustic and mechanical problem, and applying the benefits of prefabrication to the garage construction.  The technical analysis method section explains the ways in which these problems will be redesigned and compared to the original systems based on value engineering, constructability, and schedule reduction. 

 

     
             
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