Consulting
Loss of the Day 01, When a R$450 Round Pool Turned Into 10 Hours of Work
I charged my usual flat R$450 for a non-standard round pool. I got scope and layout wrong, and 3 hours of work became 10. Episode 01 of Loss of the Day.
CAREER
Posts in Career
Career decisions in engineering and design: positioning, specialization, value delivered, what to learn and what to delegate.
Career
Why Engineering Designers Are Underpaid (And What to Do About It)
Three concrete reasons keep engineering designers underpaid: weak communication, scattered focus, and no development plan. Here is a real-world IDP for plumbing design.
Engineering
Engineers or Virtual Bricklayers? The identity crisis in the BIM era
Why most engineers working on design today have turned into virtual bricklayers, and how to get out of this Matrix before it's too late.
Engineering
14 Lessons from a Non-Conformist Designer
The most important things I learned in 5 years as a building services engineer: scope, BIM, value delivered, and what I changed to stop drowning.