Summer Placement - Façade Engineering

Description

• Work with other teams and gain an awareness of the problems and constraints of the other major design disciplines such as Architectural, Structures, Building Services/MEP, Fire Engineering, Acoustics, and computer modelling.
• Improve your competency across various software such as Autodesk Robot, STAAD, Strand, SAP2000, MEPLA and Therm.
• Understand the design life of various façade components and materials and have the opportunity to inspect existing buildings to understand what failure or a defect looks like .
• Maintain good client relations throughout the job.
• Increase your awareness of basic weather performance issues, basic building physics including ventilation, solar gain control, thermal insulation and glare control.
• Assist in developing jobs technically from initial client ideas, using various materials such as: aluminium, steel, concrete, stone, glass and timber. Understand architectural component detail design including aesthetics.
• Deliver work in a timely and technically competent manner.
• Help assess and advice on the impact of design decisions in terms of embodied carbon, operational carbon and durability/ life-cycle .
• Develop your experience of the practical aspects of handling and fabricating typical cladding materials.
• Building Surveying
• Develop strong design leadership on façade issues to the rest of the Client's design team.

Requirements

• Hone your understanding of international standards and building codes. (For example, British Standards, Eurocodes, International Building Code, UBC, Aluminium Design Manual, Australian and NZ standards, ASTM Standards, Saudi Building Code.)

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance