Structure, software, and the space between.
Carrie is a structural engineer at Arup, with an M.S. from Stanford and a B.S. in Civil Engineering and Architecture from Northeastern. She has spent her career inside the tools that design buildings, and has experimented with building new ones: a text-to-BIM startup, internal design tools at Arup, and scripts that size columns and recommend foundations.
Outside work, she has run a marathon on the Great Wall of China and practices aerial silks. She speaks English and Cantonese and is learning French, Danish, and Tamil.
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Feasibility tools, Arup
Internal Tools
2025
02
BuildSync
Product, Research
2024
03
Stanford PBL Lab
International Competition
2023
04
The Cove
Structural Capstone Project
2022
05
Solar Decathlon
National Competition
2021
06
Cafe Juno
Architecture Project
2021
07
Chinatown Public Library
Architecture Project
2021
08
Chinatown Pavilion
Architecture Project
2021
09
Double House
Architecture Project
2020
10
Hand-crafted models
Work Archive
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11
Photography
Work Archive
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Feasibility tools, Arup
Internal Tools
01 · Featured
BuildSync
A shared 3D building model you change by typing. Built after 60+ conversations with architects, engineers, and contractors about why changing a building takes so long.
Role
Founder & CEO
Year
Jan–Jul 2024
Team
3
Focus
Research, interface
Selected work
Structure and architecture
Writing & press
Features, posts, talks
BuildSync on LinkedIn · 2024
Introducing BuildSync: the first public text-to-BIM platform, now in public beta
Read on LinkedIn
Northeastern Engineering · YouTube
Carrie Tam on Co-op and Experiential Learning
Watch on YouTube
Northeastern Engineering · Dec 2021
Interdisciplinary Meets International
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Northeastern Engineering · Oct 2020
Student’s Knack for Building Leads to Founding of the Solar Decathlon Club
Read the feature
Work Archive
Models and photography
Models and drawings
Photography
