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BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS
April 18, 2017
By Suzanne Robinson
• April 18, 2017
FOR A MORE COLLABORATIVE EXPERIENCE
What’s your experience?What’s your drive?
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Engineer Architect
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Archineer
Engineer Architect
Path to Net Zero Energy
Fossil Fuel
Renewables
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Deep - Energy
Efficiency
Retrofits
Occupant
Behavioral
Changes
Current
Low- Cost Energy Efficiency
Initiatives Implemented
Net Zero
Energy
Building
Step 1 Step 2
Path to Net Zero Energy
Fossil Fuel
Renewables
An
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Deep - Energy
Efficiency
Retrofits
Occupant
Behavioral
Changes
Step 1
Low- Cost Energy Efficiency
Initiatives Implemented
Net Zero
Energy
Building
Step 2 Step 3
Archineer Energy
Efficient Design
Archineer Design
If we really pursue excellence,
a natural outcome of that will be…sustainability.
- Barbra Batshalom,
Sustainable Performance Institute
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
+ Why sustainability needs more collaboration
+ Introduction of Archineer concept
+ A/E schooling
+ Individual-level changes
+ Firm-level changes
+ Industry-level changes
Architects Dream Engineer
Engineers Ideal Architect
Net Zero Energy Project Examples
Next Generation of Design
01 02 03 04INTRO
If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.
- Norman Foster
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Failure is central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation.
- Dr. Henry Petroski
SCHOOLING
Architect Engineer
Taught to be
Optimists
Taught to be
Pessimists
Artistic / Creative
Theoretical Thinker
Precise / Mathematical
System Builder
Graded on iterative design approach
More designs you show, more reward
Graded on final solution
Answer is valued over work
Macro: Focus on the big picture - VISIONARY
Very little education on execution / feasibility
Micro: Focus on the details – PROBLEM SOLVER
Very little education on how everything fits together
Subjective grading
Learn to sell your answer
Objective grading
The answer is right or wrong
Often architects and engineers approach the same project from very different perspectives. These diverging views are cultivated early in their career, starting in their schooling. Architects and engineers appear to be opposites that can complement each other as they interrelate to one another.
REASONS I MAJORED IN ENGINEERING
Steady Pay
Loves Math / Science
So I can say, "Trust me, I'm an
engineer"
“[Engineers] know exactly what
your tasks are.. Go in, do your
work, get it done quick and go
home.”
ARCHITECT vs CIVIL ENGINEER WORK PLACE
“Too many variables
in Architecture…
there’s a never-ending
internal battle, “if I
just did this or
tweaked that, then
this would be better.”
“I love the structural engineers, you guys are often far and
away the best consultants I work with… Communication is
hard, taking the initiative and figuring out what is
happening globally is hard.”
“Are you high? Do you know how long it takes an engineer
to re-do calculations? The standards are a ridiculously thick
set of rules to follow.”
WHAT DO YOU
WISH STRUCTURAL
ENGINEERS DID
DIFFERENTLY?
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Architects Dream Engineer
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Brings new ideas / products / systems to the table
My engineer is good at what he/she knows but I have to push them into exploring something new.
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Open to exploring new ideas / products / systems in a positive manner
Why do engineers shoot down something new and start with saying “no” initially?
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Great Communication Skills
Where to start?:
- Doesn’t speak up
- Too much information and too technical
- Few visuals and usually in engineering code
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Proactive not Reactive
Anticipates needs of the project design.
Let’s me know what I need to know ahead of time and sometimes before I need I know it. Instead of having to drag information from them.
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Not so Conservative
Oversizes equipment, oversizes equipment rooms, sticks with systems they know. Conservative with time and wait to do their design at the end of a project.
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Open to exploring multiple design options
Engineers are too pragmatic. They aren’t enthusiastic about exploring options and seem to want to skip the preliminaries.
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Other Characteristics
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Engineers Ideal Architect
02
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Good at managing and leading the client
- Understands clients goals and needs
- Understands clients’ governance / decision making
- Manages scope creep / additional services
- Reduces design cycles / VE items
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Excellent Project Manager
- Good at relationship and team building
- Develops trust and inclusion
- Respectful of time and expertise
- Understands what/who is needed when
- Doesn’t pit contractor and client against engineer
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Knows that a small change on an architectural design can be a huge change for an engineer
Classic example is modifying equipment room dimensions and size. Architects are equally responsible for the design of high performance ductwork but often don’t understand how their design limits options.
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Understands and shares risk of new ideas / technology
Doesn’t just sell next big thing to the client and then puts it on the engineers and blames them if something doesn’t succeed.
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Helps join the facilities demands with management demands
Often the engineer is stuck between meeting two polar demands. Success of a project from an engineers perspective includes how well it operates.
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Knows the building code andnot afraid to do calculations
Too often it feels like the energy code falls on the shoulders of the engineer even though it is inclusive of the entire building. Envelope calculations and lighting calculations done by who? What goes into load calcuations?
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Other Characteristics
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Net Zero Energy Project Examples
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PROJECT CASE STUDIES
Two different projects interested in achieving Net Zero Energy (NZE), one in Virginia, one in Massachusetts. Net Zero Energy design goes beyond technology and engages occupant behavior/expectations and usage. On both projects it was the architect that was introducing the idea of NZE to the client. And in both cases the client was a public agency. Both had different design teams (A/E), different approaches, and different outcomes.
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Architects reason for NZE
Results in varied levels of trust, leadership, inspiration and engagement.
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NZE Champion(s)
Time and energy to recruit others and level of effectiveness, especially on client side.
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Collaboration Process
Roles played in project team
Engagement of client as a team
Timing of collaboration
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Start of Relationship
Level of respect, sharing, and listening
Culture of the project team
Clients needs understood
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NZE Results
Paradigm shift vs. entrenchment
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Next Generation of Design
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Change
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http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/blog/2015/10/26/who-wants-change-who-wants-to-change/
Most businesses were never built to change – they
were built to do one thing exceedingly well and highly
efficiently – forever. That’s why entire industries can
get caught out by change – industries like publishing,
recorded music and the major U.S. airlines.
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Change : Start with yourself
- Continue to develop your interpersonal skills
- Professional coaching
- Research “Change Management”
- Read, ex. Harvard Business Review Articles
CHANGE MANAGEMENT INSIGHTS:
We may feel too little involved. People are more
resistant to change if they are not part of the change.
CHANGE MANAGEMENT INSIGHTS:
We may see the rewards of changing as too low. When
people do not have the answer to the question
“What’s in it for me?”, they will resist change. When
the rewards for making the change are too low
compared to trouble/stress/extra work involved,
change will falter.
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Change : Recruit colleagues
Don’t just ask technical questions
Find other change management folks and talk
Share lessons learned
Advocate particular engineer / architect
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Change : Bridge the Gap
Stay in touch with the “other” side
Adopt an engineer or architect
Ask what others in your profession are doing
Share what others in their profession are doing
How’s the culture of your company perceived?
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Understanding Others
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Understanding Others
Become less self-centered
Evaluate your collaboration skills
Learn Engineering/Architecture basics
Expose yourself to “sales” basics
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ArchitectsNeeds
EngineersNeeds
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ArchitectsNeeds
ClientsNeeds
EngineersNeeds
#1 The project isn’t about a building. It’s about the clients goals and objectives. Do you know the success of your buildings?
Not just about architects and
engineers needs, it’s ultimately
about the clients needs.
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Value is subjective and the value is not [the A/E’s] decision. The client is the final arbiter.
- David Crowell, CEO of RMC International
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Knowledge Sharing
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Knowledge Sharing
• Is the quality of answers dependent on who they know and where they sit?
• Are we answering the same questions over and over?
• Are we learning from the experience of others?
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Knowledge Sharing
No longer apprentice based profession
Need for Knowledge Management tools
Technical and interpersonal skillsets
Chief Information Officer
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Industry Needs
1. Director of Learning and Evaluation
2. Chief Information Officer / Knowledge Management
3. A/E based project management / interpersonal workshops/resources
4. “Architecture for engineers” courses/resources/tools
5. “Engineering for architects” courses/resources/tools
6. More communication between fields
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Thank youSuzanne Robinson
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