Exploring the project program

- [Instructor] The first thing that I should introduce is just the concept of a project program. And what we're looking at here is actually a room data sheet which is a more inside look at the project program. A typical project program might have some really simple things associated with it, such as which rooms need to be a part of your project, how big each of these rooms should be. Perhaps it'll say what equipment will be inside of each one of these spaces. Also, there's a very good chance that we'll talk about physical relationships. This room needs to be next to this room. That can all be filled out in a variety of different ways. One way would be to have just a standardized sheet. And then using that piece of paper, just fill in the information on a piece of paper. Another way that it can be done is by creating a PDF out of it and then go into Bluebeam or Adobe and filling in that information directly into these kinds of forms, and this is a PDF, with the information that you need for that space. Some of the ways that people tend to do it today include using Excel. Now this is the most basic Excel spreadsheet you'll ever see for doing this, but it does give you an idea that you could begin to categorize such things as the department, the actual size of the space versus the estimated design size of the space. Calculating what the actual circulation area for each one of these spaces should be. Typing in how big of dimensions roughly should each of these spaces be. And even having information such as comments, where you can put in extra information that doesn't fit a lot of the other standard categories. So that is constantly on record so you're thinking about that as you're going through your design process. So there's a variety of different ways that you can capture this information. And I also want to mention before we go on that another one of those ways, and one that I'm starting to recommend more and more is to actually use your design software itself. In this case, you can see that I have this little house, and this is a house that actually comes with Revit, but I've added a couple of schedules to it. And in one case, it's going to be the Space Program. From here in the Space Program, you can enter in information such as each of the room names, what department are they associated with, what's the area difference? And we'll talk about how you enter that information in here in just a few minutes. The point of it being though is that you have a wide variety of different ways that you can enter this information in. But ultimately though, at some point you need to collect that information from the client, enter it into some sort of document or spreadsheet, so that as you're going through your design process, you know what you're trying to accomplish, such as the total square footage of the building, or total square footage of certain departments, what is the restrooms, what kind of materials may be should be inside there, should it be ceramic tiles, should there be some vinyl? What kind of information do you want to have associated with it? And that could go down to even such things as in the mechanical room, what equipment needs to be inside in the mechanical room? All that can be specified as part of your project program.