Full issue pdfI was interviewed alongside my co-author as a follow-up to our article in STRUCTURE magazine. The resulting article called “Automation and the Future of Structural Engineering – Installment 2” was published in the March 2022 edition of STRUCTURE. The article covers the following topics: Institutional response to the[…]
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Structures Congress 2021
I presented a session at the circumscribed ASCE SEI Structural Congress session in June 2021. The session was titled “Practical Applications of Emerging Technology” and consisted of a brief introduction with 4 breakouts with each author hosting a conversation on their own topics. My breakout was titled “Advances in Digital[…]
Revit Server Accelerator Setter
PROBLEM The WAN-based Revit model collaboration platform called Revit Server requires the user machine to be configured to point to the nearest Revit Server Accelerator. The existing Revit Server network at Thornton Tomasetti consists of 27 Revit Servers that are attached to the office locations where most Revit modeling occurs.[…]
International Standards Contribution
Since 2019, I have served as the United Kingdom’s Technical Expert to the European Committee for Standardization Technical Committee 442 / Work Group 3 (CEN/TC 442 WG3). My group has been charged with completing Work Item (WI) 023 “Guideline on how to understand & utilize EN ISO 29481 Building information[…]
SecureWorld Presentation
In November 2018, I had the opportunity to present to a large group at the SecureWorld conference in Bellevue, Washington. My talk was titled, “Does building geometry affect active shooter outcomes?” I’m happy to report that there was significant interest in the research based on active shooter simulation and I[…]
GWU R&D Showcase: Active Shooter
In February 2018, I presented at the George Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science Research and Development Showcase. My poster presentation featured my research on active shooter simulation up to that point. As a result, it outlined the background and methodology but did not have the results of[…]
Nike LeBron James Innovation Center
DESCRIPTION The LeBron James Innovation Center at Nike World Headquarters (WHQ) is a beautiful building that celebrates and advances the company’s foundation of innovation. One of several new facilities on the WHQ campus (and the second designed by Thornton Tomasetti), the facility’s prominent, central site establishes Nike’s ongoing research and[…]
Building Energy Simulation Automation
PROBLEM Traditional concept design involves engineers exploring a limited set of reasonable design options that they determine by exercising expert judgment. This limited set of options inevitably cuts out potential solutions from consideration. This is problematic as the design space becomes more complicated and identifying the best solution requires more[…]
Tieback Model Creation Automation
PROBLEM As part of the Climate Pledge Arena project, we were designing the shoring walls of the perimeter of the site. The geotechnical team completed their designs outside of the Revit BIM but we wanted to be able to deliver the design in BIM for cross-discipline coordination. This could have[…]
Engineering Office Design and Fit-out
PROBLEM The Seattle office of Thornton Tomasetti was growing and nearing the end of the lease on our first-ever office (reuse of a small architectural firm’s office). We needed to find an office in the downtown core (office director’s preference) that could accommodate growth in staff for the office while[…]