Articles on engineering process, BIM coordination, and how ORIRI's method works in practice.
Most people picture BIM as a 3D model. Its real value is coordination: catching the conflicts between structure, services and architecture before they reach the site.
The cheapest time to solve an engineering problem is before it reaches a drawing. Bringing engineering in early is often where a project's budget and buildability are really decided.
Open spans and dramatic cantilevers define much contemporary architecture, and they ask more of the engineering than they show. Here is what those gestures cost a structure.
Good engineering should not water down an architectural idea to make it stand up. Done well, it protects the intention, and often sharpens it.
A concept is an intention. A building is a sequence of resolved decisions. This is the path a design travels from sketch to something a contractor can price and build.
In a high-end home, the engineering is meant to disappear. Making it invisible takes more coordination, not less, with every discipline resolved before the finishes go on.
