Monday, 30 March through Friday, 3 April

Announcements

Coronavirus information

TAMU announcements regarding coronavirus and COVID-19 are updated every few days.

Syllabus

Revised syllabus is available on Howdy.

Alternative grading

All students have the option of Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading in any or all classes. Please notify me if you wish to take this option. If you do not inform me of your choice, I will assume that you wish to continue with the graded A through F option.

Please see message from Texas A&M University President Young.

https://www.tamu.edu/coronavirus/temporary-changes-to-grading-q-drop-and-withdrawal-deadlines.html

Revised schedule for this class

See the syllabus for revised schedule. The important change to the schedule is that Project 5 due date is moved to Wednesday, 15 April 2020. Final reviews will be 22 April and 24 April.

Construction detailing

An ex excellent resource is Modern construction handbook / Fourth edition., by Andrew Watts. It is available for free as a digital download from TAMU Library. Try:

https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action?docID=4539667

If this link does not work, use https://library.tamu.edu and search for the book.

Activities

On Monday, 30 March, we will do desk crits on Zoom with each team.

On Wednesday, 1 April, we will do desk crits on Zoom with each team.

On Friday, 3 April, Robert Fox will present the land development view of Crossway, a project by CMAI in South Africa. Below are notes from his presentation, in PowerPoint and PDF format, some with notes and some without notes.

You can watch other presentations by Robert at

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXUEe_fPL0M

crosswaysfarmvillage.co.za/what-is-on-offer/rhino-house/