Landscaping

1. Reviewing the material about Xeriscape, list the seven fundamental Xeriscape areas that must be considered when designing a landscape.
plan and design
create practical turf areas
select and group plants appropriately
improve the soil
mulch
efficient irrigation
maintain the landscape.

2. Describe/define what the term “Xeriscape” means. (http://www.xeriscape.org/).
Combining those seven properties to make magnificent landscaping

4. Answer the following questions in your journal:
OK

5. What part does shade play in water resource management and human comfort?
Shade can be nice to rest under for people. Also it blocks the sun from hitting parts of the ground which allows more water to be used before it evaporates

6. How can it be incorporated into landscape design efficiently?
Large trees create a lot of shade and also help make landscping more impressive

7. When is it appropriate to provide shade and when is it not appropriate?
Some smaller plants (i.e. flowers and shrubs) can thrive in the shade whereas others need direct sunlight.

8. Using the same website as in Question 3, list the criteria that should be followed when selecting plant material for a site.
You must choose plants that will be able to survive in the climate, type of soil, and amount of shade you put them in.

10. In your journal, list appropriate plant material for your site’s geographical area that addresses plant groupings, requirements, sizing, and species selection.
A lot of different types of plants can grow here. Tropical and Desert plants would have trouble but other than that plants that will survive here includes mostly everything else.

Viability Survey

1. The number of inhabitants of the structure: commercial or residential
100-150, Commercial

2. The ages and gender of inhabitants
Mostly High School Boys and Girls, some adults on occasion

3. Future plans to add onto the structure: future expansion
None, it will be perfect the way I design it.

4. A list of activities to be done with the structure (i.e., office use, office and living use, or storage only)
An office, a practice field, instrument and uniform storage, kitchenette

5. Entertainment habits
None

6. Desired number of rooms, minimum sizes, and types of rooms
12 Rooms
Practice field
Bathrooms
Big Ground Floor Practice Rooms (2)
Utility Room
Staircase
Uniform Room
Locker Room
Kitchenette
Office
Closet
Smaller Practice Rooms (3)

7. Kitchen with types of appliances desired
Refridgerator, a couple ovens/stove tops, microwave

8. Bathrooms with the number, size, and types of fixtures desired.
2 Bathrooms but they are huge. Just your average bathroom fixtures

9. Planned length of use of structure
To practice for marching band

10. ADA requirements
Parking, Bathrooms

11. Budget for structure
More money than anyone could ever want or need.

12. Style of structure
Stadium-ish

13. Special needs, i.e.: Handicap access
I'll throw in a ramp or two

Vocab 4.4

1. Arterial: a high or moderate capacity road below a highway that carries large volumes of traffic between urban areas.

2. Egress: a way out or exit, an exit ramp on an interstate

3. Feeder: a smaller road that flows into a larger road

4. Ingress: entering, an on ramp on an interstate

5. Transit Line: a line providing public transit

6. Curb Cut: a ramp leading smoothly down from a sidewalk to a street

7. Cut and Fill: the process of earth grading by excavating part of a higher area and using the material to fill in an adjacent lower area

8. Delta Angle: the change in angle of a curve

9. Freeway: a broad highway designed for high speed travel

10. Point of Reverse Curve: a point in a rail or road where a left or right curve is quickly followed by a curve in the opposite direction

11. Point of Tangency: point at which a tangent line intersects a curve

12. Sight Distance: length of the roadway ahead visible to the driver

13. Tangent Line: a straight line that just touches the outside of a curve

14. Vertical Alignment: a combination of tangent grades and vertical curves which defines the vertical location of a highway

15. Vertical Curve: a transition between two elevations

Essential Questions 4.4

1. Why did we exaggerate the vertical scale when we did the profile layout of the road?
So that we could see the shift in height in greater detail.

2. In what ways do engineers use design to control traffic differently on an arterial opposed to a feeder street?
Arterial roads are designed to hold more traffic and with less stops than feeder streets.

3. What are some of the factors you would have to consider if you were asked to design a new parking lot for your local library?
How many people will be using it simultaneously, how much space I have to build in.

4. How would the design of ingress or egress change if a building were to be used as a day care center instead of a senior center?
The amount and placement of the doors. Also the amount and distance of parking from the door is key.

Fire House Plan Questions

1. Determine the following information about the PLTW firehouse plan:
· What is the diameter of the existing water main?
6"

· What is the diameter of the proposed water service?
8"

· What is the elevation of the top of the hydrant?
301.79'

· What diameter pipe is used for the building’s sanitary sewer line?
6"

· Where is the gas meter to be located?
The middle of the south wall of the building.

· What is the spot elevation in the front left-hand corner of the building?
300'

2. Why do you think red is the color used to depict electricity?
Because red is a hot color and electricity is also hot.

Parking Lot