• Hamot Women's Hospital
    UPMC Hamot Women's Hospital is a first class
    facility for Mothers and Babies, located overlooking
    the bayfront of Lake Erie.
  • Hamot Women's Hospital
    With very luxurious interior finishes UMPC Hamot
    was designed to make the patient feel at home.
  • Hamot Women's Hospital
    UPMC Hamot Women's Hospital was intended to utilize
    earth tones in order to sooth the patients at the
    hospital, notice the tree like column covers, the
    clouds on the ceiling, and the stream pattern on
    the floor.
  • Hamot Women's Hospital
    UPMC Hamot Women's Hospital delivered their first
    child on January 9th, 2011. Baby Armani Maria!

UPMC Hamot Technical Assignments!




Tech Report 1

The purpose of Technical Report 1 is to familiarize the student with their thesis building. This is done through various code analyses and system naratives. Please click the image to the left to view a copy of Justin's Tech 1 Report!

The Final Tech Report 1 was resubmitted on 10/11/2011 per Dr. Boothby's Revisions and Suggestions.

















Tech Report 2

The purpose of Technical Report 2 is to examine alternative floor systems for the UPMC Hamot Women's Hospital and then make a judgement on system viability with both structural and non-structural factors. This is done through various research and analysis, the research done is summarized on the Research page. Please click the image to the left to view a copy of Justin's Tech 2 Report!

The Final Tech Report 2 was resubmitted on 11/15/2011 per Dr. Boothby's Revisions and Suggestions.

 

 

 

 

 

Tech Report 3

The purpose of Technical Report 3 is to examine the UPMC Hamot Women's Hospital lateral system for both strentgh and serviceability requirements. This is done through various computer analyses, including STAAD and RAM softwares, and hand calculations. Please click the image to the left to view a copy of Justin's Tech 2 Report!

 

Senior Capstone Project (CPEP):

The Capstone Project Electronic Portfolio (CPEP) is a web-based project and information center. It contains materials produced for a year-long Senior Thesis class. Its purpose, in addition to providing central storage of individual assignments, is to foster communication and collaboration between student, faculty consultant, course instructors, and industry consultants. This website is dedicated to the research and analysis conducted via guidelines provided by the Department of Architectural Engineering. For an explanation of this capstone course and its requirements click here.

Note: While great efforts have been taken to provide accurate and complete information on the pages of CPEP, please be aware that the information contained herewith is considered a work-in-progress for this thesis project. Modifications and changes related to the original building designs and construction methodologies for this senior project are solely the interpretation of Justin Kovach. Changes and discrepancies in no way imply that the original design contained errors or was flawed. Differing assumptions, code references, requirements, and methodologies have been incorporated into this thesis project; therefore, investigation results may vary from the original design.