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.
BUILDING SERVICES
Posts in Building Services
Building services design: plumbing, electrical, gas, and fire. The technical heart of what Ascent automates.
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.
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
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.