Our next destination in Touch Base with TeamBSE is Brisbane!
We recently spoke to Chase Day, who has been with BSE for 3 years. He joined us as a graduate Mechanical Engineer and since then has been a complete joy to have in the office, with a wicked sense of humour and dedicated work ethic. Chase started his career working with a Builder, bringing the approach of buildable engineering into mechanical design. At the beginning of 2020, Chase left BSE to travel and explore the UK, our team was thrilled to welcome him back when COVID threw that plan out the window.
Q&A –
1. What excites you about your area of engineering?
From uni, I knew that I wanted to be an engineer. Engineering was what I loved doing, using information and data to come up with ideal solutions for problems, learning how equipment moves and works. HVAC is a great speciality area of engineering, practical engineering which directly impact users of spaces and working out energy efficient designs, working with everything from huge plant and equipment to tiny sensors in work or living spaces
2. How do services engineers add value to projects?
Services are needed in any space where people will be for more than 6 mins, it’s practical engineering with real impact. Having a professional do the design, an experienced services engineer will get it right. A good engineer will deliver an innovative design, consider environmental needs, energy reduction, responsible engineering with long term operational savings all while providing practical solutions like emergency lighting, appropriate lighting for varied workspaces and air conditioning product which actually work and meet the needs of users of the space.
3. Did you choose the property/ construction industry as an intentional career choice, or did it choose you?
It totally chose me, otherwise I would probably still be working in a bar. I was lucky enough to start with SHAPE to gain some experience and understand the industry, when I met a BSE team member at a networking event and then started the professional practice, I needed to finish my degree. After I graduated, I was thrilled to join the team permanently and fell in love with how it all works and that BSE is a family environment, providing a huge variety of projects to work on and the ability to grow and learn.
To end on a lighter note, we’re asking all our team the most controversial question of recent time:
4. Pineapple on pizza?
Yes! Big yes!