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
Posts in Engineering
Reflections on engineering as a profession: training, market, the engineer's role, and what has changed in recent years.
AI
How I Used AI in a Live Engineering Consultation
I ran a live hydraulic consultation using AI as a reasoning copilot, not an oracle. Two hours later: architecture defined, equipment specified, CAPEX estimated, technical document ready. The three-phase method.
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.