Innovation

STRUCTURE Magazine Interview

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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PBC Article

In October 2020, I had an article published on the British website “Planning, BIM & Construction Today.” The article discussed the impact of BIM on the design and construction industry including: defining BIM 2D to 3D transition collaborative platforms to Common Data Environments changes in delivery and handover changes to[…]

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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[…]

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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[…]

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BIM Process & Team Development

PROBLEM The transition to 3D Building Information Modeling platforms for drawing production was rocky. The firm had a robust custom toolset and practices to support document production in Microstation including robust templates, a VBA Toolbar application that adjusted all settings for layering and annotation. The transition to Revit was rocky[…]

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3D Printing Studio

I stood up a 3D printing studio for a highly-regarded structural engineering firm. This project included acquiring the equipment, training staff, and developing procedures to incorporate that capability into project teams that could benefit from advanced prototyping. “Marvin” (as our Ultimaker 2 printer was affectionately known) was put to use[…]

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