Books
Technical Boundary Spanners and Translation: A Study of Energy Modeling for High Performance Hospitals
High performance buildings—buildings with the aim of reduced energy and resource use— require that engineering analysis be at the center of an iterative and complex design process that assesses trade-offs, goals, and priorities across engineering and other fields of expertise. It has been observed that teams rarely get this right. Historical, cultural, and technical issues […]
Finding Connections between Design Processes and Institutional Forces on Integrated AEC Teams for High Performance Energy Design
Engaging the need to better understand the problems of high performance energy design in AEC collaborative practices and delivery methods, this study tested a schema that differentiated between the micro level of everyday design decisions, the meso level of project organization that guides project delivery, and the macro level of institutions—professions, disciplines, and firms— within […]
Digital tool plans and models
Here is a video of my lecture at the University of Michigan, “Digital tool plans and models.” Gina Neff, author of “Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries,” speaks on “Plans and Models: Digital Tools, Sticky Practices and the Thorny Problem of Innovation” during this talk at the University of […]