In this interview, Chris Mackey shares his journey, insights about his professional work, story of Ladybug tools development, roadblocks in AEC, trends in computational design, ml applications in aec along with advice to students and professionals.   Chris is a co-founder of the Ladybug Tools software for environmental design, which he regularly develops, applies and teaches to thousands of professionals and students across the globe. Chris has added many features to Ladybug Tools including many of the project’s functions for energy modeling, thermal comfort, HVAC sizing, building energy simulation visualization, and detailed envelope heat flow modeling (with LBNL Therm + Window). He oversees the maintenance of the Ladybug + Honeybee Legacy Plugins and is currently in the process of bolstering the Ladybug core with visuaization + comfort capabilities, implementing energy modeling capabilities in the Honeybee core, and building Dragonfly to link Ladybug Tools to macro-scale modeling engines and data sets.   #ladybug #aec