EXPERIMENT 2 - GUEST LECTURE REFLECTION

A great informative lecture given by Stuart Bull from ARUP ENGINEERS for the BENV2423 course, which gave us an insight and a great experience of how it is to be part of such a large company and have an important role to design and build something out in the real world, and in which he touched on and had covered alot of aspects in the lecture from starting his talk about the founder of ARUP which is one of largest global and most respected engineering company's in the built environment, then presenting to us some of the latest and previous jobs that the company and himself have worked on in Australia as well as overseas, then he mentioned the workflow between different Architectural, Structural & Mechanical packages from starting off a design in Revit, Solidworks or Microstation Generative Components, etc... and then exporting the actual model in to a totally different package like MEP, and other structural programs to give the the model its structural characteristic & properties, and see if it will work or not and then if anything changes it all has to start right from the beggining which seems abit frustrating but it sounded quite usual to him, and then finally he showed us 3D renderings of many great buildings and which Abu Dhabi International Airport was one of them.