financial modeling + feasibility studies
ROSE-COLORED GLASSES SHOULD OFTEN BE ROUGE.
A project’s risk profile starts when the underwriting begins. It is critical to understand upfront your corporate capital structure, project finances, investment goals, and all of the variables that stand between an idea and a construction site. Our teams will collaborate to build custom dashboards and cashflow projections based on your highly adaptable and iterative design options. Sensitivity analysis? Check. Residential testfit algorithms? Sure, we’ve done it before. Our goal is to accelerate the time it takes to incorporate new design options and get your team to an un-biased answer about the financial risk associated with a pro-forma. It helps that we’re the certain kind of nerds who know how to build buildings, not just spreadsheets.
BIM Coordination, clash detection, & 3D scanning
FIND PROBLEMS ON YOUR COMPUTER, NOT ON YOUR JOBSITE
We’ve all signed the unnecessary change order that no-one can really explain. As the developer you typically rely on consultants, who happen to have a mis-aligned incentive to identify the root cause of many jobsite problems. The owner/developer is most incentivized to meet their consultants in the Building Information Model and establishing using clash detection to fix problems before Construction Documents are issued. If it is too late for proactive resolution, deploy the 3D scanner and start comparing models to ask the right questions- the true root cause will start to surface. When you start leasing the spaces, that same 3D scan will pay for itself thanks to the right-to-remeasure.
corporate headquarters
TWO GLASS BUILDINGS, ONE SOLAR REFLECTIVITY PROBLEM
The client has a design idea, which your team wants to accommodate but you don’t fully understand what impact it will have on occupant comfort. Computational design tools provide unprecedented ability to come up with simple solutions early on in the project- when they cost less and can be seamlessly integrated. Through this design process, the architectural team ran thousands of solar studies to identify when the sun would reflect across the valley between these buildings. We engineered a facade solution and a frit pattern to reduce as much glare as possible. Our involvement on this project ranged from reviewing the mock-ups at the manufacturer’s facility, to drafting expansion joint details in the underground garage.
*Project completed while on-staff at Gensler Chicago
Langhaim hotel, SHanghai
NOTHING SPECIAL HERE, JUST REGULAR WORK BY THE RIGHT TEAM
Our team is proud our knowledge of BIM technologies and we have no problem digging into the nitty gritty details. It doesn’t have to be a sexy, ground-breaking project it just has to get done. We can roll up our sleeves and get to work, though we will probably come up with a few automations along the way to make our workload easier.
*Completed while on-staff at Gensler Chicago
aDLER PLANETARIUM- JOHNSON FAMILY STAR THEATER
STARTING FROM SCRATCH ISN’T ALWAYS BEST
Our team loves renovation projects, especially when the existing conditions are poorly documented and tough to understand. This project was an exceedingly simple scope of construction but required integration with the branded environments team and the curatorial team at the Planetarium. We proposed various concepts to improve the pre-show experience for the new Star Theater and worked with a tight budget to tell the story of the expansion and contraction along the lifecycle of a Star.
*Completed while on-staff at Gensler Chicago
motorola mobility branded environment
ADVANCED MANUFACTURING, WITH A SIDE OF BRANDING.
For their new lobby renovation, Motorola Mobility wanted guests to immersed in the Motorola brand. Our team worked closely with the team of graphic designs to concept and implement a pattern that reflected the brand identity and could be manufactured using a water-jet cutter 2,000+ miles away. Given the thickness of the aluminum needed to support such large panels, the machine tooling paths had to be specifically engineered to ensure the integrity of the panel was maintained. Our team wrote the algorithms to simplify the curvature of the tool paths and ensure the machines could safely tool the surfaces.
