Custom Gate and Fence System
Problem statement
Imagine you are walking past a pristine building, and when you turn the corner you notice the dumpsters and recycling bins out in the open. What was once viewed as a professional and aesthetically pleasing building, turns into an eye sore. Eleva-Strum High School is experiencing a similar issue, and our primary goal is to enclose their dumpsters and recycling bins to generate a professional facade. While most establishments hire contractors to build an enclosure for their waste bins, Eleva-Strum High School will utilize their students’ manufacturing skills to assemble the enclosure. Eleva-Strum’s students’ capabilities range from wood working, welding, lathing, milling, grinding, and metalworking. A by-product of building an enclosure around the school dumpsters is that our project provides students the opportunity to apply their classroom skills to a real world task in order to foster educational success. In fact, students who engage in hands-on learning experiences are more likely to succeed in a class than students who do not [1]. Additionally, hiring an outside company to provide the labor, material, and equipment to build an 8’x18’ enclosure around one dumpster can cost up to $49,000 depending on materials, excavation needs, and company standards [2]. With our team designing and engineering the enclosure and the high schoolers and community volunteers assembling it, the overall cost of this project is anticipated to be greatly reduced to a predicted amount of under $7,500 to meet the clients budget. This figure was estimated by our clients who have significant experience in managing project expenses through Cardinal Manufacturing, a company run by their high school students. Additional stakeholders have other sets of values; for example, accessibility to the waste bins is important for the students and the city’s waste management crew. Additionally, it is vital that the school maintains a safe environment for the community and surrounding wildlife, one in which potentially hazardous or flammable materials are secured properly and cleared from the surroundings. Ultimately, our project will improve the professional look of the building by designing a decorative, yet functional, barrier around the high school’s dumpsters and recycling bins. Bibliography [1] S. Freeman et al., “Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., vol. 111, no. 23, pp. 8410–8415, Jun. 2014, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1319030111. [2] C. Collins, “General Contractor + Construction Manager,” p. 40.
Team members
Reagan Hubbard – leader
Kevin Chang – communicator
Armando Miracola – accountant
Rushi Patel – admin
Client
Craig Cegielski Eleva-Strum High School