Site Planning Fall 2012

http://www.treesaregood.com/treecare/tree_benefits.aspx

For those who are team climate, this will helpful to consider the trees. I found it very helpful on my design strategies for sustainability.

You can check blackboard to see your grades on the Sun Study and Trig assignment.  The average score in the two classes was 40.82 and 41.94 with lows of 10 & 11 and highs of 90 & 100.

We will need to do some more work on working through this type of assignment including a review of the trigonometry involved.  Please do not stress over your grade – you will get a chance to complete another assignment to offset/replace this grade.

These are very helpful links, the teams might find useful:

1. www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/neigh_info/bk02.info.shtml

2. Brooklynbridgepark.org

Grading is available for you Ecological Footprint Studies. Please refer to blackboard to view your grade. If your work was incomplete in some way you have been asked to resubmit. If you do not resubmit the current grade will stand.

Also – please pay more attention to the naming of your files. I did not take points off for poor naming strategies will do so in future. We will rename proper file naming in class.

Also I thought you might want to see statistics that will allow you to compare your Ecological Footprint both student to student and class to class. See the chart below.

All Team PowerPoint presentations are to be uploaded no later than Thursday September 20th by 12 noon. I will download them all Thursday afternoon and will have them available for our class presentations.

If you were absent you must contact a fellow student prior to next class and ask to join one of the groups and offer your assistance. You must also make you own site visit to the Brooklyn Waterfront.

I recommend you go about solving this problem two ways – both by doing your calculations and by drawing it in section using AutoCad.  If you do not get the same answers from both check both your drawing and your calculations as they should both match.

Step by Step:

1. Sketch by hand in section showing the overhang or hedge and the building.
2. Label all the information you know (height of the window, etc.)
3. Check the sun chart to figure out the angle to use based on the chosen date – add this to your diagram.
4. Remember S(O/H) C(A/H) T(O/A) when trying to decide if you need to use Sine, Cosign or Tangent.   (remember O = Opposite and H = Hypotenuse)

What to hand in:

• submit a PDF of your work.  If you work by hand scan this and put it into a pdf.  If you work in AutoCad – print your drawing to PDF and include this.  You must show all your calculations.  Drawing in AutoCad is optional (but very useful) the Trig calculation are mandatory.

This is a useful link that explains the use of Sine, Cosine and Tangent.

http://www.mathwarehouse.com/trigonometry/sine-cosine-tangent-practice3.php

All of the powerpoints and homeworks are now posted here under course documents.  There are two current assignments:

• Sun Chart Questions
• Sun Chart and Trigonometry

Please upload them to the assignments section of blackboard no later Thursday night the 13th of September (12 hours before our next class)

Also remember to be prepared for our field trip.  Wear sensible shoes and bring a camera or cell phone camera.

Enjoy the weekend.