Talk Series 39

The Craft of Engineering Collaboration: Working with design teams and fabricators to deliver architectural design concepts

Speaker:

Tom Donald

Summary:

To maintain an architectural concept through to delivery on technically demanding projects is difficult. It requires close integration and communication between architects engineers and contractors. Using the Sydney Harbour Bridge Cycleway project as a case study looking at the importance of fabrication in engineering, architecture and industrial design and the holistic design process that can facilitate an element of craft in delivery. This talk will discuss digital set out, geometry method statements and the control of tolerance to resolve complexity and the process of developing construction methods which improve and develop a design.

This talk was delivered online on 5 February 2025. Talk duration is 44 minutes.

Speaker Bio:

Tom Donald leads the Sydney studio of Eckersley O’Callaghan (EOC). With a background including architecture, engineering and industrial design Tom embodies the integrated design and technical detail central to EOCs engineering philosophy.

CPD Details:

This talk is offered as a formal CPD activity for architects, mapped to performance criteria PC44 and PC47 in the Australian 2021 National Standard of Competencies for Architects.

A copy of the CPD questions can be accessed here. If you take notes in digital format during the video, you will be able to copy/paste your answers into the questionnaire at the end.

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