Casebook · institutional projects · written up at length
Three jobs we’d show a junior engineer.
The casebook is a long-form record of institutional work the practice is comfortable describing in detail. Each entry includes the brief, the diagnosis, the schematic, the build, the equilibration, and the post-commissioning record. Where a client has consented to be named, the entry names them; where not, the entry uses the case number alone.
Method on the casebook itself
Three pieces of work, three lessons we want the practice to keep.
We do not write up every project. We do not have a marketing reason to write the casebook; it is a teaching document. Each piece is chosen because it teaches something the next project might benefit from. Junior engineers read a casebook entry before they walk a similar site for the first time.
Of the cases we have written so far — 41 since the practice began — sixteen are private, eleven are sealed under loan-agreement confidentiality, and fourteen are publishable in this form. Three are reproduced on this site; the rest are in the shop binder.
- Total
- 41 written up
- Public
- 14 publishable
- Online
- 3 (this site)
- Private
- 16 (private clients)
- Sealed
- 11 (loan NDA)
- Shop
- full set in binder
Adjacent
References
- Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, Cordage District. phlf.org.
- Heinz History Center, regional industrial archives. heinzhistorycenter.org.
- NPS National Register of Historic Places. nps.gov.
- ASHRAE Handbook — HVAC Applications, Chapter 24. ashrae.org.
- Image Permanence Institute, RIT. imagepermanenceinstitute.org.
- BS EN 16893:2018 standard. bsigroup.com.