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Running a coordination meeting that ends in decisionsTreat the agenda as information design: freeze the issued set, walk clashes against named containers, and leave the room with owners, due revisions and closures — not a slideshow of viewpoints.1 Jul 2025 · Learning · Coordination · 9 min read
A design-office meeting table of printed clash cards, each with ACCEPT, CHANGE and HOLD boxes, a red stamp mid-press on the nearest card, and a handwritten decision log — no slideshow screen.
IFC, native files and the interoperability taxIFC is a tax you pay for an open conversation. Native files are a tax you pay for fidelity. Budget both — and stop pretending one format is free.24 Jun 2025 · Learning · Coordination · 9 min read
A vintage two-pan balance on a scratched metal workshop bench, an IFC-labelled USB stick on the lighter rising pan and a NATIVE-labelled stick plus unmarked archive media on the heavier sinking pan, with calipers and a tape measure nearby.
Level of information need: specifying enough, not everythingLOD 300 is a geometry slogan. ISO 19650’s level of information need names purpose, objects, geometry, data and documents — enough to decide, not everything the authoring tool can store.17 Jun 2025 · Learning · Coordination · 12 min read
A printed A3 door schedule on a pale oak studio table: one fire-door row with only three cells filled and the rest empty, three graphite pencil ticks on those cells, no hard hat.