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Construction Management

The New Dickinson School of Law

University Park, PA

  
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● “Note: While great efforts have been taken to provide accurate and complete information on the pages of CPEP, please be aware that the information contained herewith is considered a work‐in‐progress for this thesis project. Modifications and changes related to the original building designs and construction methodologies for this senior thesis project are solely the interpretation of Steven Ayer. Changes and discrepancies in no way imply that the original design contained errors or was flawed. Differing assumptions, code references, requirements, and methodologies have been incorporated into this thesis project; therefore, investigation results may vary from the original design.”

 
 
Steve Ayer's Bio

 

Steve Ayer is a 5th year Penn State student majoring in Architectural Engineering. He is focusing his efforts in AE on the Construction Management option. Steve anticipates graduation in December of 2008 with an integrated Bachelor and Master of Architectural Engineering degree. Steve knew from a young age that he had an interest in buildings, but, until recently, did not know what aspect of the building process he wanted to pursue as a career. It wasn’t until his second year at Penn State when the construction management option really caught his interest.


Steve has had the good fortune of working in a variety of summer and part-time jobs that have increased his knowledge-base in design and construction. He designed septic systems for properties in the state parks of Pennsylvania with the Department of Conservation of Natural Resources (DCNR.) This was a good first project for Steve to work on because he got to see the whole design process for this small project endeavor from going to the project site, to digging holes for soil percolation tests, to designing the system based on the soil test result, to preparing the permit documents to be approved by the county sewage enforcement officer.

In the following years, Steve worked for Dr. John Messner as a lab assistant in a 3D CAD visualization laboratory at Penn State. Here Steve learned the basics to using the modeling program Revit and the model management program Navisworks Jetstream. The skills he learned in this job helped in his future work with Gilbane building company. Here he was able to help with coordination of different trades through using 3D Building Information Models (BIM.) Specifically, Steve helped in importing and managing 3D model submissions and developing “Clash Reports” that indicated where different trades’ proposed coordination drawings clashed. Also while at Gilbane, Steve learned the ins and outs of the submittal process by processing numerous submittals as well as plenty of other filing tasks.

 

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