How Tom Kaneko Uses SketchUp for Custom Home Retrofitting

Tom Kaneko is a structural originator and SketchUp ninja having some expertise in bespoke private retrofits and expansions in the United Kingdom. In this discussion, we dig into his workflow and how he utilizes SketchUp to convey an incentive to his customers inside the imperatives of a limited financial plan. For Tom, 'SketchUp makes the methods for plan and correspondence, with customer and temporary worker, indeed the very same'.

To enlighten ourselves regarding his experience as a modeler and how this impacts his way to deal with plan, we have asked Tom a few questions, and following is the summary of his answers, from his own point of view. Enjoy!

I'm attracted to the specialized parts of the calling and the site. Fortunately, I had a very active involvement with the University of Edinburgh that has served me well by and by.

As an originator, you need to know your art… information holes become evident when you change from plan to development, especially while participating in discussions with manufacturers and subcontractors.

What was the decisive second for me with SketchUp? It came in 2011 when I was taking a shot at Jemima's House, an expansion to a terraced Victorian house with enormous desire and a strict financial plan.