Assessment Step 7

In this case I think it was pretty obvious that the largest difference between the work of the eight Design Teams was simply quantity. Some teams have really made a great effort to be able to produce all the documents requested on this stage. And others simply haven't. As you can imagine, this situation makes our assessment much easier. Besides this absolutelly obvious difference, it must also be stated that it's normal that Teams with all documents presented normally achieve a much higher quality in each of them, due to the discussions and development the've had to deal with as a Team.

So, first important conclusion for all teams, regarding next (few) steps: You must complete all documentation requested (we never thought it would be neccesary to say yhis but...).

Apart from this, here is our assessment of your work. As we said, it's been much easier because simply regarding the quantity of work presented, differences between designs are very clear. Anyway, again we've made a double assessment: one regarding the global Team work done by each Desdign Team; and the second one related to your individual work inside your team.

TEAM WORK

Team 1, has done an excellent entry, and most of all, they are continiously pussing the whole unit forward, starting each step really quickly and achieving very good results at every stage. Congratulations.

Teams 7 and 4, have also done a very good work. Different though. Team 7 has been struggleling with a difficult proposal for a month or so, but we think you've finally find the way. And Team 4 has started their work rather later than others, but they are doing well right now. Both of you, continue like this till the end and you'll certainly achieve very good results.

Teams 3 ands 6, have not done a bad work... but we really want more. Again there are some differences between the two groups. Team 6 has started really late, with a new model just a few weeks ago, but we think you're progressing well. Work as a team and complete a good semester. On the other hand, Team 3 started a long time ago with a great initial model, and you're having more difficulties than expected to develop it properly. You're moving forward but perhaps too slowly. Come on!

Teams 2, 5 and 8 must improve their performance. In most cases you must simply complete all documents requested with a level of compromise similar to other Design Groups. Have a look at their work.

INDIVIDUAL TASKS

In order to make evaluation of your work easier, we have assessed each document comparing it with the same type of document developed by other teams. We think differences between them, will let you have a much clearer idea of what is requested for each task. Here are a brief conclusions:

Models:

Excellent models by Teams 1, 4 and 7.

Good work by Team 6

Just enough Team 3

Teams 5 and 8 must work harder

Team 2, not presented.

Constructive Sections:

Excelent, Teams 1 and 4

Just enough, 2 and 6

Must improve, 5, 7 and 8

Team 3, not presented

Structural 3D:

Excelent, Team 1

Very good, 7, 2 and 4

Not bad, Team 3

Improval demanded, Teams 5 and 6

Team 8, not presented

New Plans and Sections:

Good work by Teams 6 and 7

Just correct, 1, 3 and 4

Need more work, 5 and 6

Team 2, not presented.

Curiously, perhaps the worst document on this step has been your new plans and sections. We suggest you concentrate your effort on this issue this coming step, because they are really the basic architectural document of any proposal.

This is it. One more very important design step to go. If you really want to do something this semester, it's now or never: a couple of crutial weeks... Good luck and see you on Monday