2025-2026: In collaboration with Thornton Tomasetti, this student team developed a tool to automate the selection of timber connectors. Selecting connections for mass timber projects is currently a long and tedious process because manufacturer catalogs present allowable load tables, geometry…
Design for Hyperlocal and Sustainable Materials in Building Construction
2022-2023: In collaboration with Thornton Tomasetti, this student team developed a sustainable materials selection tool and a conceptual structural design for a future building at Smith College. The project connects to Thornton Tomasetti’s pledge to achieve carbon neutrality in their…