Simulation need not be office-bound. Here is a video about using simulation ‘in situ’ during a site visit. I overhead engineers debating about which ceiling heating panel design to roll out in a hospital project. The core issue was position specific thermal comfort for the patients and staff.
One thing lead to another and out came the laptop and a model focused on their question emerged in time for an afternoon meeting. The video goes over the choices of what-to-include and what-to-exclude in terms of the complexity of the model and the depth of analysis needed. And some work-arounds for limitations in the available details.
Of course I knew how to make the tool sing and dance and I used that efficiency to made sure that I reserved enough time to ‘live with the model’ long enough to have a good story to tell and I made sure the assessments I ran were designed to tease out whether the design teams ideas were worth pursuing before I asked the meeting ‘what else would you like to know’?
Disclaimer: I did tidy up the model for this video - at the time there was no export to Blender and I decided to add in a bit more furniture to provide a better context as I would have done if such facilities had been available.
10 дек 2023
