Joining Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has been an incredible experience that has provided me with a depth of understanding and confidence about tackling complex challenges and discovering unique solutions. At SOM, creative collaboration is the guiding force between various disciplines and we have thus been able to achieve remarkable innovations within the industry. Over the past two years, I have been an active part of the 30 member structural engineering group in New York City, a team that challenges me to be a more collaborative and thought-provoking individual. Working with a team encompassing engineers from four continents and 16 countries has produced an intense, high impact environment that relentlessly produces fresh and cutting-edge solutions.
I have adopted this mantra and through working on the landmark Manhattan West development, located a few blocks west of Penn Station, I have developed and managed the creation of a new workflow for analyzing, modeling and producing engineering documentation of buildings for use by clients and contractors. Typically architects will conceptualize a building scheme and create a 3D computer model, engineers would then create two additional models, one for …show more content…
My supervisor saw the potential and allowed me to run with it. Having only limited experience in advanced engineering and modeling software I quickly learned as much as I could and sought out fellow engineers who had experience with different types of programs and began to form a small team. Managing and developing the various components that would comprise this new method was a challenging task, but the results have far exceeded
I have adopted this mantra and through working on the landmark Manhattan West development, located a few blocks west of Penn Station, I have developed and managed the creation of a new workflow for analyzing, modeling and producing engineering documentation of buildings for use by clients and contractors. Typically architects will conceptualize a building scheme and create a 3D computer model, engineers would then create two additional models, one for …show more content…
My supervisor saw the potential and allowed me to run with it. Having only limited experience in advanced engineering and modeling software I quickly learned as much as I could and sought out fellow engineers who had experience with different types of programs and began to form a small team. Managing and developing the various components that would comprise this new method was a challenging task, but the results have far exceeded