Imajineer Studio
Posts tagged MEP
Notes on architecture, product development and brand work from the studio.
IoT Sensors in Residential Buildings: What to Monitor
A residential building can run hundreds of IoT sensors and still respond to every equipment failure after the fact. The gap is not the hardware. It is the...
Local Building Materials in Cambodia: The Split
Cambodia imported roughly 1.33 billion dollars of building materials in a single year, yet cement made up under twenty million of it. The structural base is...
Cooling Load Math: The kWh Per Square Meter Test
The same building in the same climate can run on half the cooling energy or twice the energy, and the difference is set before a chiller is specified. Cooling...
Maintenance Reserves: The Math Developers Skip
Every residential tower carries a maintenance reserve bill that comes due around year twelve. Roof membrane, facade sealants, chiller compressors, elevator...
Amenity Floor Distribution and the Capacity Question
Most condominium towers in this market place every amenity on a single floor. It reads well on a brochure and underperforms on a Saturday afternoon. A look at...
How an Architectural Brief Is Actually Developed
An architectural brief, developed properly, takes four to eight weeks and produces a fifteen to thirty page document. Most projects spend ten days on it. The...
BIM and Why It Changes Building Outcomes
A single mid-rise residential project produces roughly two thousand design clashes before the foundation is poured. BIM finds them while they are still cheap...
The LEED Certification Pathway for Tropical Buildings
LEED v5 went live in April 2025 with a new scoring logic. Half the points sit in decarbonization. A quarter in quality of life. A quarter in ecological...