Today’s guest is Majed Agha of Agha Engineering, a civil engineering firm headquartered in Houston that specializes in transportation, drainage and site development, and incorporates BIM technology in order to provide high-quality designs.

Despite being the principal PE at his own engineering firm today, Majed started out his career by going to business school. After a six-month period, he decided to go back and join the engineering department of the University of Houston, eventually getting an internship opportunity at AECOM about a year later. Once he graduated, he was hired by an engineering firm to assist their site development team with their usual 2D drawings. However, he started teaching himself and using Civil 3D in order to improve the quality of the work the team was already doing.

The consolidation of his interest in the visualization industry took place after rejoining AECOM about 9 months later and starting to help out on schematic- and planning-type projects. He would go through the geometric design and his PM would ask him to send the files to a specialized 3D Rendering group within the company that would give them amazing photo renderings they could use to engage the public. This truly got him curious and he started teaching himself as much as possible.

Now Majed has been building his own visualization firm for about two years and he sits down to share with Sam his niches of expertise, his experiences with his company, his predictions for the future of visualization, the new budget specifically dedicated to visualization at the Texas DOT, and much more.

 

Resources Mentioned

Majed Agha - LinkedIn

Juan Romero - LinkedIn

Agha Engineering - Website / LinkedIn

Sam Lytle - LinkedIn / sam@beyondcad.com