In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, many companies in the design, engineering, and construction fields are adopting remote working policies for the first time. We recognize that this is a challenging change to make as many team environments have expectations for in-person collaboration. 100% of Proving Ground's staff works remotely across 4 different US … Continue reading Live Remote Working Discussion and Q&A
PRODUCT RELEASE! Conveyor Tools for Rhino to Revit Workflows
This year marks 5 years in business for Proving Ground. As a consulting services company, we have worked with businesses and project teams to create custom tools for solving some of the most challenging workflow problems. Central to many of these solutions has been our Conveyor tools. Conveyor is a geometry and data management plugin … Continue reading PRODUCT RELEASE! Conveyor Tools for Rhino to Revit Workflows
Free Generative Design – A brief overview of tools created by the Grasshopper community
It is no secret that we’ve been critical of the recent framing of “generative design” as a technological trend largely driven by product marketing. We’ve instigated lively Twitter debates, a full-length podcast discussion, and critical positioning papers. “Generative” is a term that carries some important historic context in the domains of computer science, art, and … Continue reading Free Generative Design – A brief overview of tools created by the Grasshopper community
Are you creating a culture that is toxic to innovation?
There was a Twitter thread recently that discusses what can be a trend of professionals exploring career paths outside the boundaries of conventional practice. While many important points have been made in this context, as is typical of most social media discourse, I feel that the thread exhausted the constraints of the medium and dissolved … Continue reading Are you creating a culture that is toxic to innovation?