Typical Engineer Story

In construction industry, it involves architect, engineer, quantity surveyor, project manager, landscape architect, acoustician, and the list goes on. Architects are the main professionals who will first deal with the clients. After obtaining the basic ideas or problems, the architect will submit a brief solution for the client’s consideration. Prior to getting client's approval, architect provides a detail solution by getting input from other professionals to materialise the building construction.  An architect's dream is an engineer's nightmare has become a well-known perception in the construction industry. However, is there any merit or truth in such perception? Is it true that creativity is only for architects, while engineers only provide solutions to ensure architectural creativity is safe to build? Architect akin to an artist. The first phase is the sketching phase of the fundamental creative ideas and translating the client’s intent via the artistic shape, space an