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Welcome to The Midnight Lunch
There are many interior design and architecture blogs that feature new and beautiful projects, products, art and design inspiration, both Australian and international. This blog aims to be something...
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Collaborating with Engineers (or play nice in the interior design sandpit)
I thought I might put together a series of posts on the topic of playing nice with the engineers on interior design projects. In the spirit of collaboration I asked some of my former colleagues over...
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Working with Electrical Engineers
In my series on engineering collaboration, I’ve decided first to focus on collaboration between interior design and electrical engineering. (See here for general engineering collaboration tips if you...
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Working with Mechanical Engineers
At a glance working with mechanical engineers can seem to present less visible coordination issues for interior designers than electrical engineering (previous blog post here). However, the results of...
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Working with Hydraulics Engineers
In Australia hydraulic engineering and wet fire engineering (sprinklers/fire hose reels and hydrants) are often the work of a single engineer on smaller fitout projects. For this reason I’ve...
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BIM-onomics: How will BIM change the business of design?
Does BIM cost your design practice more? How does BIM impact your fee proposals? How does BIM impact your business? These were some of the questions I was recently asked to address in a presentation...
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Is your architecture or design client value for money?
Last week I started a discussion on how the client and their expectations impacts on the cost of design. Whilst there was some hope expressed on linkedin about this next post offering solutions…I’m not...
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It is mandatory that external walls are waterproof: What do client design...
Seriously I am not joking – this sentence came out of a client design guideline document. I am a little worried about the standard of their existing building given that they feel the need to write this...
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Spaced Out and 5 other mega trends in the property sector
Last week I attended the Green Building Council of Australia’s Green Building Day in Sydney. One of the notable changes in the professional development events held by the GBCA over the last year has...
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Why is delivering on time so hard? Is it that architecture, engineering and...
This week I’m struggling to find the motivation to write – not because I don’t have anything to say, or even that I don’t have time – but because my brain is currently in a state of post tender...
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Did you forget to program in the holidays?
Come the beginning of December, people seem to start to panic – clients, contractors and our project teams. It’s similar to the shops shutting for a day (which also happens at Christmas). Everyone is...
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The Midnight Lunch: My favourite apps for busy consultants
A few people have commented to me recently on the number of apps on my iphone and ipad or have told me they are unsure how to use their ipad for business and which apps to use. So I have put together...
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Is it value for money if your architect is free?
Architecture and interior design fees are always something that you readers here at The Midnight Lunch seem to enjoy - and recently I’ve been reading some great stuff about architectural fees written...
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Could we all achieve more by working less?
One of the reasons my blogging schedule is a little irregular from time to time is the fact I always want to enjoy writing this blog. Its also one of the reasons I take a break in January. To me, this...
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The early bird catches the worm? When to engage engineers
Working as a collaborative team with project managers, engineers and other consultants as well as the client is a topic I have written about or touched on in many of my previous posts. Some of my...
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Where to From Here: Embracing technological change
Is architecture on the verge of the greatest change in centuries? Ceilidh Higgins looks to the future and predicts disruption of epic proportions. This is part of the ACA’s Where to From Here series,...
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Is design ever ‘finished’?
One of the greatest challenges of architecture and design is the fact that there never seems to be enough time. From student projects onwards there never seems to be enough time to finish designing,...
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Architecture and Design Fees: Why hours?
Why is it, that in an age where the value of a company is no longer based on assets or staff numbers, but on ideas – that architects still charge by the hour? Once upon a time, the value of a company...
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Is your work flexible, agile or autonomous? (and what is the difference anyway)
What does flexible mean to you? Is it the hours you work? Or the place? Is activity based working the same as flexible working? And what does agile working really mean? These days companies are...
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I’m a designer and I job share with an AI
Thomas Edison is credited with the phrase “Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration” and I believe there is no field where this applies more than architecture and design. So...
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