Founder · Buildings

Josh Boehm reads a building across every layer at once.

The broader practice runs across construction, land use, and organizations, and it lives on the founder page. This is the part that stays inside the building itself.

Most people in building work from one position. The crew builds it. The drawings set how it looks and sits on its site. The engineering decides how it performs. Each of those sees a different building, and rarely what the others catch. The edge is not one lens taken deeper than anyone else. It is enough working depth in each of them that the failures between them become visible, which is exactly where they hide.

The background runs across each of those vantage points. Nearly five years inside federal construction in every role on the job, from project engineer through construction operations program manager, coordinating architecture and engineering on ground-up facilities across the country. Building-enclosure work for an engineering firm, and forensic investigation of residential claims, where the job is finding why a building did what it did. Energy and enclosure modeling, running wall assemblies and window packages across solar orientations and climate zones to see where an envelope holds and where it only works on paper. Fenestration up close, air and water permeation testing on commercial windows and facade quality control on high-rise envelopes, including the state’s tallest residential tower. Light commercial and residential wood frame, the systems most buildings in this region are actually made of. And classical and vernacular design and materials, carried as working knowledge rather than decoration.

The part most building leaves out is the eye. A building can perform and still sit wrong on its lot, carry the wrong proportions, miss the scale of what is around it. Josh reads that the way he reads an assembly, against classical and vernacular precedent rather than taste. Performance and proportion are not two problems. They get decided together, on the same building, at the same time.

The work sits before the build, where performance, cost, and proportion are all still decided on paper and still cheap to change. The value is in the read: what a building is going to do, what it is going to be, and what would make it better while the changes are still drawings.

The cross-lens read is what the building work at Endure Consulting is built on.