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Discussing and researching ideas on the first day enabled us to get straight to work on the modelling and development of potential design proposals for our medical centre. In keeping with our desired simplistic nature to the design, we started modelling single panel walls which we felt was a beneficial concept.

However, we found that maintaining simplicity when connecting the walls was harder than anticipated. Problems crept up, such as the fact we needed an additional slot cut into the wall to connect walls coming into the compound. Obstacles like this left us head scratching for a while, in spite of these complications, through a trial and error method we managed to create grid which displayed where certain panels would be placed.

The best solution we found to overcoming the problem of connecting the walls was instead of having all single walls there would now be some double panel walls. this would allow us to connect the interior walls of our proposed design. 

With the model complete I was able to sit down and piece together some information which could be useful for the presentation. Below shows some of my findings including some information on how the structure will be taken in and out of the container, as well as some other key points.

Maximum weight to lift safely for a man is 25kg

Maximum weight to lift safely for a woman 16kg

http://www.workplacesafetyadvice.co.uk/guide-manual-handling-lifting-techniques.html

Steel Beams – 80mm thickness = 177.57kg

        177.57kg/ 25 Kg = 7 Men to lift taller upright beams

http://www.rosmetalloprokat.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58&Itemid=56

Roof Umbrella – sits on a trolley system within the container then compact crane used to lift and spread to insert supporting outer beams

11 Meter Compact Crane

http://www.varollarfotovideo.com/U1374,199,proaim-kite-33-titan-package-33ft-11-metreoctagonal-video-camera-crane-with-heavy-duty-tripod-standhd-std-3-axis-dutch-roll-pan-tilt-head-floor-dolly-e-focuskite-33-titan-33-ft-jimy-jip-cine-vff-kite-33-titan.htm

The day went by fast! With so much do to the team barely had any breaks and started the day already focused and producing so the model could be done by the end of the day!

We set up a production line and diveded tasks to each team member so things could be done more efficiently. By the end of the day the model was almost done, tomorrow it will just need the finishing touches!

We also started working on our poster, making diagrams and sketches to enrich the content of it. Hope tomorrow will be a productive day and everything will be ready for the presentation!

Today was a good day, the team have work together well all this weekand have been a real pleasure to work with(‘someone has to be steering the ship’!)Now we can see some results. Our design seems to have ticked most boxes and the layout and structure seem to be realistic.The layout earlier this week was tricky to get our heads around, but with lots of little adjustments here and there,it seems to have worked out very well. The wall system has been a neat design, whereby any adjustments were not to difficult to carry out, a real flexible system. The completion of the roof covering has brought the design alive,and it does somewhat to resemble a field medical unit( maybe a bit like MASH!) Looking forward to seeing all the other designs completed, it has been a nice environment all week.

George couldn’t find anything about how it was constructed

I have found out what transportable health centres are used for, how much it will cost to use it and how much horsepower it needs.

Day 2 was more interesting then day one because we are doing layout of the plan. We made the boxes in the scale first than we tried to fit it in. Lectures were happy by our ideas.

Today we are starting to cut the trusses in the scale plus we made the container, the size of the container is 12.m/2.2m/2.9m. And also we are doing precedent studies and research about the structures…

The morning started with a little bit revision and check list of what we still have to do. Robb continued to build the model, while Josh was working on the layout and distribution of spaces, I started to search for materials and what kind a floor and walls we could use. Besides de inflatable structure, a module floor that can be disconnected to store on the container and connected again on the site. The visitor students started to plan a design for our presentation poster for friday.

Planning the poster and doing a good layout is good to present your ideas and show clearly to the client what your project propose.

To preparate our presentations, I started to do schematic drawings and perspectives to put on our post. Meanwhile, the model was almost ready.

However, we had to increase the areas because some parts were missing and we had to consider the staff and patients flow again and also increase the area, do more hexagons for the module.