Architects vs Structural Engineers vs Others!

[@mil9102]

I’m a bridge engineer and well…no architects here

[@Darksnowwwww]

Ur so lucky

[@MrJlmmeh]

I totally agree of being a team but where I work (France) architects are often legal representatives of the whole design team. However, when the clients are asking why a design flaw was overlooked many architects forget their role as a team leader and relay the question to the rest of the team. That's why I love my job, i often say it is as technical as it is about human relations, financial know how and politics. You might be the best engineer in the world but if you can't guide the clients and architects during a meeting everyone will end up losing time. I'm often seen as a bit too agressive early on in projects but in the end everyone understands I'm defending the project itself instead of being too lazy to spend time studying useless demands. Great vid cheers

[@jonathanm9200]

Part of the animosity towards bad architects is the work load. Their fees are 5-10% vs the 0.5-1% of subconsultants and they continually try to push work onto Structures/Civils/M&E etc and you end up with scope creep. Good architects on the other hand understand each of the DT roles and adhere to it, they take input from each discipline and amend the design rather than blindly building their *Vision*. At some point you just stop giving input and simply design what they tell you, with email chains for every cost item that you can present to the client/QS at the VE exercise.

[@Deepscore]

Structural engineers “work for a livin’!”

[@efy5aru]

Hadn't heard you swear in any of the older videos... I'm used to it anyway as my boss can swear for the entire country 🤣

[@EverydayDazz]

Comes out every now and again :)

[@gregeconomeier1476]

Have you worked on a project were the architectural design cannot be engineered, built or accomplished within the project budget or maintained over time economically? And the architect firm digs in its heels and demands. Tells the client the project design is being changed by the engineers and/or contractor and creates a sh!t storm?

[@scootertheeb6172]

What you said is just for design engineers who rely on architects to get job leads.

[@EverydayDazz]

It’s one way to win work there are of course other avenues. But doing a good job and getting on with people is probably one of the easiest ways to win more work.

[@scootertheeb6172]

@@EverydayDazz Yes, you are right, and I didn’t mean that structural engineers don’t need to get along well with other people.

[@gregeconomeier1476]

Have you heard of the term "Skidmorized"?

[@MasterCivilEngineering]

Good video🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸