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I’ve got the ability and the institutional knowledge base to cover just about anything. Combine that with endless curiosity and enthusiasm for research, and you end up with a me. 20+ years in a career field starting with learning the tech before I had a driver’s license.
Personally, I believe that design should be accessible to everyone – no matter the scale of your particular problem or skill set.
Some of the greatest people that I know – don’t have a sense of spatial awareness, or can’t visualize what 2D lines on a page represent. Admittedly – If I didn’t draw it, I don’t always 100% know either.
Builder’s Set of model homes will be coming to this site.
Regardless of the scope of your project, regardless of the scale – I want to help. I may be a resource.
I’m interested in expanding the skill set to include 3D scanning of existing spaces. Having seen the benefits of point-cloud scanning of spaces – I’m interested.
If this is something you’re interested in having for your property – let me know and I can make the investment on the equipment.
Having been on both sides of this issue before – I understand the short-burn project or the short-term needs that you might have at your firm.
Having more things to do than you have people to do them and short-staffing until your backlog fills back up can be a dicey place to be in. Things don’t get done, concessions have to be made. You’ve been running lean for over a year to keep the doors open – the staff you have is pulling long hours, fighting burn out, or just making lateral moves to other firms… Trust me – I’ve been there. It’s not fun.
You need a task-rabbit with the skill set to help move things forward, without the 4 week interview process or negotiating with temp agencies who won’t deal with a 1-week contract. I may be a resource for you.
In a lot of places that I’ve worked, if the redline process happened – it was done by a senior person in the office in their ‘spare time’ who may of may not be associated with the project.
Checking documents & models for clarity and consistency isn’t one of those tasks that most people on the team will fight to do. It usually takes attention to detail and a proper mindset.
If you’re looking for a once-over on a project before it heads out the door – I’ve been known to wield the “red pen of clarity” over projects.
All sorts of things get farmed out to 3rd party resources. Need an extra set of eyeballs on your documents? I may be a resource for your project team.
You just won an RFP and the project kicks off in a week or two. You need something to put in front of the client that will impress & a solid model to hit the ground running toward your deliverable deadline.
This ocean side 180-key full service resort was a project like this.
10 days before the official project kick-off, this project was a pile of scanned PDFs in a shared folder on DropBox, with a handful of photos from the project walk-thru.
I’ve been doing this for years. Build all the parts, so you can communicate and schedule all content. Communicate design.
Drawings are a picture narrative of design intent. Specifications are the narrative of acceptable materials & installation to realize the drawings.
RARELY does a missed detail result in cost savings. If your documents aren’t accurate depictions of the intended outcome – the project ends up costing more.
Now you need a custom element/cabinet/door/widget in your model. There’s nothing in the library that comes close.
Your options are to submit a help request to the BIM staff who are too busy to get to it until next week OR build it yourself and burn hours and fee that you don’t have. Neither is a terribly efficient way of getting the end result that you need.
Here’s where I can help.
Whether you’re a manufacturer who wants to provide BIM content as part of sales motivation, or you’re on the design side/user end of the relationship that needs an element and the PM is going to blast you if you spend a couple days of fee building it out – I can help.
Head to the ‘Contact’ button in the upper right and send me a cut sheet or a design sketch and I can send you something to keep you moving.
Whether you’re at a firm and need a couple weeks of help figuring out a stair tower, or a simple doodle because you’re not sure if the sofa you want to buy will actually fit in your space – a problem solver with spatial reasoning ability is good to have on hand.
Solutions don’t always need to involve lawyers, contracts, head-hunters and extended employment agreements. Sometimes all it takes is coffee and an iPad.
It doesn’t even have to be me. Architects are all over the place. Talk to a friend or two – someone knows one of us. If they don’t – there’s that ‘Contact’ button up there.
That said – If you’re looking for all of these abilities wrapped up in a single package as an asset to your firm & clients for the long term – I’m also available.
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