CONCURRENT DESIGN ENGINEERING™

The first step towards "Highest Quality Per Dollar"

The  term "concurrent engineering" in regards to real estate control, refers to the act of making the various architectural, budget, site, material, and labor considerations come together in unison towards making a successful project. Concurrent design engineering complements the architect's design, adding tremendous value to the implied design laid out by the architect. Various material layers, systems, and personal preferences all need to reside peacefully within the given coordinate space within a piece of real estate.

The focus of Magister Operis™ is to mastermind the construction environment and operations in such a way that all parties succeed both financially as well as in project accuracy. This achieved via Magister Operis' roots as a subcontractor which provides Magister Operis a unique and very organic understanding of how construction really works. Magister Operis' process of concurrent design engineering detects many interferences that are typically only discovered after your prequalified checkbook is turned loose on the jobsite. This process can not only save money, it can also dramatically increase the quality of the finished product.

Concurrent design engineering brings harmony to your real estate's structural and functional integrity, as well as the client/personnel/vendor relations for all parties throughout the real estate lifecycle.

Magister Operis uses specialized computer-aided design (CAD) software to create digital 3-Dimensional (3-D) models of proposed structures within digital 3-D real estate. Today these digital models and digital files are often known as Building Information Modeling (BIM). BIM models can be interfaced with various other software including project management, financial, structural and mechanical engineering, energy analysis, and other software which makes the models extremely intelligent and useful.The BIM models can be used to provide intelligence for various precision computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) and grading machinery as well as precisely position materials and components on the jobsite. 

BIM counts members and reads surfaces for ultra accurate budgets, reduces office time & overhead for projects once put into motion, as well as provides Instant real-time accurate and informative reports for all parties. Intelligently implemented BIM also synchronizes the building site, foundation, structural, mechanical, and finish materials, which allows all parties to work in mutual harmony and to profit in a predictable manner.

Technology that is skillfully developed, refined, and applied to concurrent engineering, allows instantaneous accurate interference checking throughout the entire real estate contents in seconds, rather than the current practice of piecing the entire jobsite together on-site as is typically current practice. Concurrent design engineering allows estimates that aren't "guestimates", but instead actually counts each member and reads each surface and volume of every object and topography in the project. Concurrent design engineering systematically produces winning tickets in regards to maximum efficiency, quality, and savings.

Magister Operis™ offers a variety of services that can be customized to your individual needs. We offer the expertise to assist those wanting to improve their project's efficiency in today's increasingly more competitive, regulatory, and automated environments. Our services are designed to assist you in reducing the number of people involved in each project, while at the same time, highly increasing your project's quality, quantity, and service output.

• DOES NOT REPLACE THE ARCHITECT: While Magister Operis can provide architectural services, concurrent design engineering does not replace the everyday architect but rather takes over where most architects and engineers leave off and true efficiency begins.
• Works with any style and complexity of architecture.
• Provides 3-D synchronization of site, foundation, structure, mechanicals, systems, and automation by digitally pre-building actual components of the project in 3-D so that interferences concerning fit, geometry, and building code can be detected and resolved during the design phase, rather than the construction phase.
• Systematically provides reasonably accurate budgets, material optimization, and timelines
• Reasonably predictable budgets are produced since 3-D model and software functions allow counting members and reading surface quantities, rather than the typical estimates (guesstimates) that endanger budgets and timelines.
• Material optimization schedules and 3-D production documentation allow the fabrication personnel to identify exactly what is to be produced from each piece of material ordered, thereby bringing waste and mistakes to a minimum. 3-D documentation of how each component relates to the whole building provides installation personnel to quickly and precisely install the components with minimal supervision.
• Produces timelines that are concurrent to the actual manufacturing, delivery and installation processes of the jobsite.
• Associating the tasks and durations of the timeline with the components in the 3-D CAD model allows 3-D animated construction for all parties to view and critique before construction money is initiated or subcontractors commencing work on-site.
• Prototypes are accurate models of the real dimensions of the to be built.
• Allows client/owner understanding of project and it's associated components.
• This greatly reduces and minimizes misunderstandings that are typical with 2-D drawings.
• Prepares a virtual 3-D prototype, ready for construction documentation detailing of site, foundation, structural, mechanical, drywall & sheathing, and interior & exterior finish systems.
• Provides trade specific and project specific output for each trade to adhere to with no more, but no less information that each trade needs to achieve maximum efficiency.

Education

• For all levels of personnel (management, manufacturing, installation, customer service, etc.)
• Integrated with university/trade school curriculum

• Easily find the right architect/houseplan for the project
• Much better than an Improvenet, construction portals, word-of-mouth, etc.

• Removes specification barriers
• Assures respect/control for proper installation
• Gives all manufacturers a fair chance at being specified for a project

• Comprehensive multi-discipline
• Concurrent
• Accurate
• Storm/disaster resistance/functionality/sustainability
• Self-sustaining/energy conservation options

• Trained/poised to build, not dictator
• Real-time with all parties

• Flexible architectural production
• Machine accurate precision and labeling

• Coordinated components connected with motivated personnel for fast, accurate, reliable, and warranty-able construction product on-site
• All components labeled for easy installation and future reference

• Security/personnel access systems
• Storm/disaster solutions (increasing in demand)
• Technology/computer gizmos
• Etc., etc., etc.

• Fast and accurate assessment of current as-built
• Least-headache; Least cost/downtime through maximization of site/material/trade optimization processes

1) Those offering the cheap price... by hiring the cheapest labor, buying the cheapest materials, and taking whatever shortcut can be gotten away with concerning the client and/or building code. Many times a great manager, but seems to have lots of problems keeping the same subcontractors constantly working and happy and turning out a consistent highly warrantable product.

2) Master Bull-Shipper (only real skill): purposely absent the majority of construction duration, so that subcontractors must make the decisions for themselves, and then blaming all the continuous mistakes and delays on subcontractors, suppliers, and the owner. This style of management often times, puts the subcontractors in compromising positions with the owners asking questions. These people also take whatever shortcut can be gotten away with, concerning the client and/or building code.

3) One who... after many years of stereotypical "hands-on experience" (one could have been working in the industry for thirty years, and still cannot lay the structure out correctly and make things plumb, level, and square themselves) has gained a suntan and a reputation of charisma concurrent within a given price range, project magnitude, and industry standards. (All may be qualities of a general contractor, but not to be confused with the full qualifications of a master builder.)