Mines Tiny House shed build

 I helped on a shed build event as part of the Mines student ASCE chapter on April 24th to work with the Mines Solar Decathlon/Tiny House group. The shed was made to have a tool storage for maintenance on the Tiny House. We had about 20 people, all volunteers, working on different parts of the shed before finally bringing it together at the end of the day.

I did some of the organizing, but Joanna Bomber of the Solar Decathlon team did the heavy lifting of planning beforehand, along with prof. Tim Ohno. They had a good system set up where each wall, the floor, and the roof would be put together separately, from 2x4's and screws, and then each would be stood up and connected later in the day, with sheathing add at the end. While the dimension calculations had to be redone due to the irregularity and specific lengths of angled pieces, we eventually got good cuts that matched up. 

Completion of front and back walls

Near Final Completion of shed

We should have done the measurements/dimensions of more difficult parts with CAD, but just did it by hand and had to recheck parts. I was able to get a solid rendering of the shed on AutoCAD though, which helped with visualization to see a rendering before we got closer to building. This was fun to actually take skills I've learned in classes including Construction Engineering and civil design II and use them in the field, on things like this cool project.

3D concept view on Autocad

Front and Side views of shed