Caroline's interest in pivoting the profession towards model centric and simulation workflows began in 2013 at Robert AM Stern Architects where she was a Project Architect, tasked with developing projects from conceptual/schematic phases through construction. Promoting BIM within the firm often resulted in a liaison role between project teams and RAMSA's dedicated technology group. The results of her technical collaboration and research on efficient, design centric workflows were intra-office learning tools that encouraged BIM practices in the deeply traditional architecture firm. As a member of the Sustainable Design Initiative Committee at RAMSA, the integration of the Sefaira application (environmental analysis tool) into RAMSA's early schematic workflows was a proud achievement.
In continuing her pursuit to graduate the profession from old 2D representation habits, in 2015 Caroline began teaching at New York Institute of Technology where she co-developed an introductory BIM course. Learning through creating a set of Construction Documents, the course exposes students to the social, legal, and professional context of construction documents, while producing a drawing set with the latest Building Information Modeling techniques. She then re-developed the course for interior design students at the New York School of Interior Design.
In 2019, Caroline moved on to a teaching position at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, where she introduced BIM workflows into appropriate places in the curriculum through the Construction Documents course and Project Integration Studios. At NJIT, she led a student design team to win the 2022 ACSA Timer Competition. She is currently a Visiting Professor teaching Construction Documents/BIM at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.
Caroline worked for notable NYC BIM consultants, Mobilis Modeling and The Nullary() Group, in assisting NYC firms that decided to make contemporary design technologies a more fundamental part of their work process or curriculum. Recently, through the New Jersey AIA, she has connected with NJ firms in need of BIM consulting services, recent clients include Weckenmann Architecture.
BIM consulting services for architecture firms provided by MAEVE include specific technology training, delivering project-specific advisement, and general workflow management.
MAEVE customizes individual BIM training for the studio's project typologies, design & management goals and staff. In addition to customizing a team-specific staff training schedule, some engagements also require project file setup, drafting specific execution plans, library creation, family creation, teaching collaborative workflows, centralizing data with Autodesk's Construction Cloud, and regular clash-detection between architects' and engineers' working models.