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🌍 Always good to keep an eye peeled for what professionals are doing in other regions of our globe! Thank you to Ed May for this presentation and to Passive House Accelerator for their fantastic work! Let me share here this truly inspiring presentation going deep into experienced pro-tips: https://lnkd.in/eQaeKYjf Maximize the Value of Your Passive House Models – Key Insights from Ed May 🌱 Here are my key takeaways from this presentation: Passive house modelling is invaluable but requires experience and good judgment: 🤝 Collaborate with consultants early and integrate them into the design process. 🔄 Model a range of outcomes, not just one scenario. ⚖️ Build in excess capacity to manage risk. 🏗️ Focus on early design phases to avoid unnecessary complexity. 📏 Use conservative estimates for key variables like U-values and airtightness. What are your thoughts on this presentation? Any pro tips or materials to share? I’m always hungry and forever curious—send them my way! 💡

Its been a year that I added InQI into my profile here. Getting a lot of emails from friends and colleagues. Its been a year of a lot of ups and downs as a startup but its been fun and rewarding. In late fall 2023, during our FY24 planning Bay Scenery, Inc, my management team and I brainstormed ideas as how to expand our design and build business. As we evaluated each one, a recurring bottleneck emerged: architectural plans. These often took months to produce due to one major challenge—access to accurate, timely data. This realization led us to dig deeper, and we identified a foundational truth: in our industry, everything begins with a parcel of land. Understanding its data parameters is like the "Hello World" of architectural planning. Over the following months, we devised a plan for what would become InQI. To ensure our intellectual property was protected, we collaborated with great patent firm and successfully filed a comprehensive patent before diving into development. Now, a year later, InQI is a fully operational, AI-driven platform optimized on AWS. It provides architects, engineers, and builders with property-based data in seconds, serving thousands of users across the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, and Australia—with plans to expand globally in 2025. What began as a local business challenge has transformed into a cutting-edge, data-driven platform empowering professionals worldwide.

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We should design the way our teams communicate with one another the same way we design our systems. Create some scenarios. Describe the expected inputs and outputs. Validate them. Define your endpoints. Let your team architecture and design emerge as new functionality is required. If you can do it with your application, you can do it with your team. Conway's law says you can.

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Our Lead Architect & Partner, Sam ( Hey Sam!), is out meeting with a fantastic client to discuss their barn conversions part of our Stage 0 - Initial Appraisal! Stage 0 is all about getting to know them, their vision and understanding how we can help to build the project together! Stay tuned for updates on this exciting barn transformation. #BarnConversion #Stage0 #ClientVision

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