We designed an 800-bed residential complex to help meet the growing need for student housing at Florida A&M University. We created modern and comfortable living spaces that supported student success. This project helped with the shortage of on-campus housing as the student population increased. We planned to provide housing for nearly half of FAMU’s 10,000 students.

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The five members of engineering senior design team 211 stand together on the third floor breezeway at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering.

Roads are important for our daily lives. They provide us with a means to travel, connecting us to work, school, shopping centers and other landmarks. Without roads, we would struggle to arrive safely from one place to another. Eventually, older roads need improvement as they age. Levy Avenue is one such road. It spans between East Paul Dirac Drive and Lake Bradford Road in Tallahassee. We aimed to restore Levy Avenue into a more neighborhood-friendly street.

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The four members of engineering senior design team 210 stand together on the third floor breezeway at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering.

St. Augustine Plaza is a large commercial and residential project in downtown Tallahassee. St. Augustine Plaza sits in the heart of Tallahassee to give the community a place to live and shop. We created this project to provide young people with living space and access to retail shops below their homes. The project includes a first-floor space with parking and retail stores such as a barber shop, a restaurant and a convenience store. The second and third floors include a total of 20 two-bedroom apartment units.

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The five members of engineering senior design team 209 stand together on the third floor breezeway at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering.

Woodville Highway is a two-lane, rural highway that connects traffic from Capital Circle Southeast to inner Tallahassee. A section between Gaile Avenue and Capital Circle with a school, two neighborhoods and several businesses experiences significant congestion and has caught the eye of the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT). The FDOT has proposed widening the road to four lanes instead of two. 

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The four members of engineering senior design team 208 stand together on the third floor breezeway at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering.

Traffic in downtown Milton is a problem because the 480-foot bridge can’t accommodate the heavy volume of cars. To solve this, we proposed a new plan to keep the old bridge and build a new, wider bridge next to it. The two bridges will improve traffic flow and support Milton’s future growth.

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The five members of engineering senior design team 207 stand together on the third floor breezeway at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering.

As Florida’s population grows, surface water suffers and the drinking water supply decreases. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) introduced Senate Bill 64 to address these issues. This bill requires wastewater treatment plants to develop a plan to reuse the water they process (effluent). Instead of discharging effluent. Rather than discharging effluent into surface water, which can cause eutrophication, the water will be reused.

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The four members of engineering senior design team 206 stand together on the third floor breezeway at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering.

PDQ is a fast-food restaurant founded in Tampa, Florida. Since opening in 2011, it has added locations across the East Coast. We proposed the first PDQ to be built in Tallahassee, Florida as a fresh place for residents to eat. This responds to the lack of development surrounding municipal, state and medical offices in northeast Tallahassee.

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The four members of engineering senior design team 205 stand together on the third floor breezeway at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering.

Concrete construction is expensive, time-consuming and harmful to the environment. This method produces a lot of carbon dioxide, which is detrimental to the atmosphere. In this project, we looked at using 3D-printed concrete as a building material. We made all the walls of a four-story house with 3D printing, eliminating the need for pre-casting or formwork.

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The three members of engineering senior design team 204 stand together on the third floor breezeway at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering.

Thomas County Central High School currently has 1,580 students and counting, but it has been using old and inadequate sports facilities and practice areas. To solve this problem, the school decided to build a new multipurpose building, two outdoor practice fields (one for the band, one for the football team) and one indoor practice field.

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The four members of engineering senior design team 203 stand together on the third floor breezeway at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering.