Comments on: What Conway’s Law Teaches Us About Engineering http://www.beingbrunel.com/conways-law-teaches-us-engineering/ The Civil Engineering Blog Sun, 21 Aug 2016 09:07:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1 By: thomasmichaelwallace http://www.beingbrunel.com/conways-law-teaches-us-engineering/#comment-10156 Wed, 01 Jun 2016 11:54:06 +0000 http://www.beingbrunel.com/?p=4207#comment-10156 True- but they’re not (often) combined enough; are you folding in the contractors and all the specialists too? If you communicate in the ‘design everything then give it to a contractor’ way then you don’t benefit from having the _build_ integrated in to the _design_.

]]> By: johnhurle http://www.beingbrunel.com/conways-law-teaches-us-engineering/#comment-10155 Wed, 01 Jun 2016 11:48:19 +0000 http://www.beingbrunel.com/?p=4207#comment-10155 Brilliant article, very true. And to be fair some companies do have combined teams, Ramboll do for big projects and I’ve heard of it at Atkins and obviously then Arup Associates are a combined architect/engineer team.

]]> By: thomasmichaelwallace http://www.beingbrunel.com/conways-law-teaches-us-engineering/#comment-10140 Tue, 31 May 2016 18:38:00 +0000 http://www.beingbrunel.com/?p=4207#comment-10140 I’ll look forward to them! Rule of the internet- you can’t ever come up with an idea stupider than someone else has already done!

]]> By: Bill Harvey http://www.beingbrunel.com/conways-law-teaches-us-engineering/#comment-10138 Tue, 31 May 2016 17:08:31 +0000 http://www.beingbrunel.com/?p=4207#comment-10138 You think the shed is funny but have a good look at Gravely hill some time when you are passing. Tweets coming up if I can find the pics.

Bill

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