tonight on the @PHAccelerator happy hour, @bldgtyp's ed may asked a pretty challenging question:

with all the work that needs to be done to reduce energy consumption in buildings - is your firm positioned to grow and scale up to meet this (coming? maybe?) demand?

i've been a fan of ed's work for.... yikes probably nearly a decade now.

and it's an interesting question.

ed posited that architects/planners/PH consultants need 'jigs' - just as carpenters do - to simplify and expedite processes.

this is also sort of the holy grail of BIM - the computer does all the thinking, the data is easily extracted. right now, there's a lot of workarounds.

one of the things i was working in in germany, was trying to integrate archicad, grasshopper, and costing. sh*t was hard!

but i also think it's the wrong approach.

i mentioned in the chat thread that land use was a bigger issue, and got an email challenging me a bit on this.

but i'm not wrong! ;)

it's no secret i'm a PHan of perimeter block buildings. i'm also a fan of 'dumb boxes'

@lloydalter summed up my @UrbanistOrg piece on... basic buildings. https://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/praise-dumb-box.html

but what do dumb boxes have to do with perimeter blocks.

well, i've talked at length about this in the past. most recently this thread: https://twitter.com/holz_bau/status/1223715869848752129?s=20