Rempel Engineering is working with Decora Homes on this 14,000 square foot home in Greenbryre Estates.
architect and engineer to make it work, which is what happened in this case,” Rempel says.
GIVE AND TAKE Essentially, architects draw up ideas, and engineers make sure they’re feasible from a structural perspective. Sometimes there are competing visions for how a project should turn out; the architect may have a specific result in mind, but the engineer might discover the idea
doesn’t physically work. Economics can also be a limiting factor. You can do almost anything if you have unlimited resources, but very few people do. Occasionally making an idea a reality is simply too cost prohibitive. “The architect is the one who defines the way a building looks, but we work with them,” Rempel says. “A lot of work engineers do, isn’t beautiful per se, it’s more mundane, but there’s good reason for it.”
While engineering firms like Rempel bring beautiful buildings to life, beauty itself is not their number one concern. Most of the time, their hard work is obfuscated. “Sometimes it’s frustrating being a structural engineer because you know of the structural beauty behind things, but lots of times it gets covered up,” Krause says. “But you still appreciate the beauty of what people were able to do with your structure.” LS
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