Careers questionnaire — MetalHangar

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Background

What is your current role, and how many years have you worked in the design or detailing of steel / metal buildings?

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What types of structures have you worked on?

Multiple choice

What software do you use regularly? Rate your level for each.

Rate a level for each tool (optional).

Autodesk Robot

SCIA

Advance Design

Tekla Structures

Advance Steel

AutoCAD

Revit

Grasshopper

Dynamo

IDEA StatiCa

Which IT / AI tools do you consider necessary or useful in your practice? Rate your level for each.

Rate a level for each tool (optional).

Python

C# / .NET

Git / GitHub

SQL / databases

APIs (Tekla / Revit / Rhino)

ChatGPT / Claude (LLM)

GitHub Copilot / Cursor

Notebooks (Jupyter)

Docker / containers

Cloud (AWS / GCP / Azure)

Do you program or write scripts? If so, which ones and at what level?

Short text

Automation & determinism

The heart of the matter.

In your end-to-end workflow (client brief → calculations → drawings → fabrication files), which steps do you consider repetitive and automatable, and which do not?★

Long text

In your experience, where does the production of calculations and drawings become fully deterministic / rule-based, and where does it genuinely require an engineer's judgment? Give concrete examples.★

Long text

For a small-to-medium metal building (a single-pitch carport 4×5 m, or a portal-frame warehouse 12×24 m), how many distinct part types and distinct connection (node) types are involved, approximately?★

Long text

How do you choose sections and connection details when loads vary across snow, wind and seismic zones and regions — tables, codified rules, manufacturer catalogues, or experience?

Long text

If you had to describe a finished building so that software could regenerate all its drawings and bill of materials (BOM), what data would need to be entered for each member and each connection?

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In your view, once the necessary parametric setup has been done and clear rules established, is it possible to automate profile optimisation for bespoke projects? How would you go about it?★

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Bill of materials & assembly libraries

Have you ever built or used a standardised parts catalogue or assembly library?★

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What makes a connection 'librariable' (reusable, parametric) rather than one-off? Where does standardisation usually break down?

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Where do you source profile and standard-part data (manufacturer catalogues, national standards)? In your view, could a usable catalogue be assembled mainly from public / online sources, or does it require expert curation? Why?

Long text

Codes & French context

How would you rate your command of the Eurocodes (EC0/EC1/EC3/EC8) and the French national annexes / DTU?

Scale 1–5 + comment

NotionsExpert

In your previous experience, have you regularly liaised with bureaux de contrôle (independent inspection bodies)?

Long text

In your previous experience, have you put together building-permit application files (permis de construire), analysed local regulations (PLU, etc.), and liaised with planning authorities?

Long text

Working with us

What collaboration format interests you?

Multiple choice

Where are you based, in what languages do you work, and what is your approximate availability?

Short text

What would make this project exciting — or concerning — for you?

Long text

Show us your work

Attach a sample of work you have produced (anonymised is fine): a calculation note, a general arrangement drawing, or a set of fabrication / detail drawings.★

Drop a file or browse — PDF · DWG · IFC

Optional mini-exercise: for a simple metal building of your choice, briefly describe how you would structure its bill of materials and connections so that the design could be parametrised (extended, raised, re-sectioned for different loads). One page is enough.

Long text or attached file

Contact

Full name

Short text

LinkedIn or phone (either one)

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Answer the questions that match your profile.

Background

Automation & determinism

Bill of materials & assembly libraries

Codes & French context

Working with us

Show us your work

Contact