Datum works at the intersection between architecture and manufacturing, the place modular projects go wrong. Bring me in as the modular specialist alongside your team, from first feasibility through fabrication: keeping the design buildable, the schedule intact, and the change orders off your desk.
I shape housing the way it will actually be made: in modules, on a consistent platform, within transport and crane limits.
Your design team gets a buildable starting point, with geometry, unit mix, and stacking logic already resolved against real factory constraints before the drawings begin.
Plenty of modular projects fail in design, when the drawings ignore how the factory actually builds. The rest fail in the hand-off. Design-for-Manufacture-and-Assembly consulting is where I protect your schedule: I translate design intent into the specific dimensions, connections, and tolerances of your chosen manufacturer.
Bring me in early to vet feasibility, or mid-stream to reconcile an existing design with a factory's constraints before it becomes a costly change.
Once the design team's documents are underway, someone has to keep the factory, GC, and design team speaking the same language. That's me: coordinating the hand-offs and illustrating RFI responses.
Not the documents of record, the connective tissue around them that keeps fabrication moving and answers clear.
Per-project or on retainer: some clients bring a site and a pro forma and ask whether modular pencils; others need a modular specialist on call. Tell me where yours stands and I'll scope it to fit.
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