Your Beam Is Too Big: Architects & Engineers

About this episode

The episode explores the collaboration between architects and engineers in a design-led process.

Send us Fan Mail Start with a flooded hotel room, end with a four‑metre cantilever, and in between unpack the messy, creative space where structure meets form. We sit down with structural engineer Joel Marsh of Pocket to map out how architects and engineers can move beyond transactional deliverables and into a truly design‑led process that saves money, reduces RFIs, and produces cleaner, more elegant buildings. Joel opens the playbook: meet early, sketch by hand at 10–15%, and use those conc...

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Hosts: Sam Brown, Ben Sutherland, Gerard Dombroski

Guest: Joel Marsh

Topics covered

• architecture
• engineering
• design process
• collaboration
• structural design

Keywords

• architects
• engineers
• design-led process
• structural engineering
• cantilever

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Pocket

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