Media tagged with "Engineering"
Lean IPD Strategies from the Trade Partner Perspective
Article | The Big Room
Early involvement of trade partners on a build using a Lean Integrated Project Delivery (LIPD) approach has the potential for major opportunity, explains Southland Industries’ Business Development Lead Andrew Rhodes.
How Southland Industries Seamlessly Connected Its Projects & Reduced Inefficiencies
Article | Construction Business Owner
We went from being a $300 million company to a $1 billion-dollar company. It was becoming unsustainable to really work with the data without some type of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution for engineering applications - Israel Sumano, Senior Director of Infrastructure Services
National Engineering Firm Becomes Far More Agile With VDI via GPU Workstations
Article | architosh
“For our engineers and detailers to handle their workloads they needed to be local,” says Israel Sumano, senior director of infrastructure at Southland Industries, a design-build MEP firm that also does fire suppression. Sumano is making the case that proximity to construction sites is hugely beneficial for not just a design-build MEP firm but any firm. “Being able to go directly into the field to observe a situation or problem has great advantages,” he says.
2019 40 Under 40: Karl Fenstermaker, PE; 38
Article | Consulting-Specifying Engineer
Consulting-Specifying Engineering Magazine recently named Karl Fenstermaker, Principal Engineer at TCM, a Southland Industries company, to its “2019 40 Under 40” list.
Process Analysis is How One MEP Producer is Coping With the Industry’s Labor Woes
Article | Building Design + Construction
Judd Fuoto, Southland’s lead solutions analyst, tells BD+C that his large company, with its many priorities, is trying to achieve a balance that aligns its business and technology agendas.
Video Game-Like Tech Draws Younger, More Skeptical Workforce to Construction
Article | Construction Dive
“We have an opportunity to leverage their interest in tech by bringing up how our industry works to construct smart buildings,” says Wendy Montgomery, senior talent manager at MEP provider Southland Industries.
Our Industry is Broken
Article | Consulting-Specifying Engineer
When the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry is compared to others, it is clear that we are behind on major advancements and safety protocols. Over 70 percent of projects within the AEC industry are over budget or delivered behind schedule, or both, explains Southland Engineering’s Erin Miller.
AEI CONFERENCE 2019
Tysons, VA
Sheraton Tysons
Erin Miller, Design Engineer at Southland Industries, will be a presenter at the AEI Conference 2019. This year’s conference is themed “Integrated Building Solutions: The National Agenda” and will offer an opportunity for members of the building construction industry to learn about and discuss advanced strategies and state-of-the-art practices of building technology.
Virtual Reality: The 3-D Solution to an Engineer’s 2-D Problem
Article | Propmodo
Virtual reality (VR) has proved useful to a wide range of applications in architecture, medicine and, of course, the ever-growing gaming industry. The next industry poised for transformation thanks to VR is the design-build industry, explains Mehran Salehi, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Analyst at Southland Industries.
Built to Outlast: The Future of Design is Flexible
Article | Propmodo
Engineers have found that there are many ways to keep a building adaptable in the future. Lincon Saki, Principal Engineer at Southland Industries, explains how 3D modeling enables building owners to make rapid changes and decisions without increasing risks.