The Journal

Insights

Notes from the studio on how buildings are engineered, and why the details that never show up in a brochure decide how they age.

9 essays

2026

5 essays

№ 001PracticeSeptember 2026

Understanding BIM as a process, not a product.

Buying the software is the easy part, and the part that changes least. What decides whether BIM pays for itself is the plan written before anyone opens it.

Prana Engineering Studio9 min read

№ 002PerformanceSeptember 2026

Building energy efficiency as an engineering discipline.

Swapping the light fittings is not an energy strategy. The savings live in the envelope, the plant sized against it, and the controls that keep both honest.

Prana Engineering Studio7 min read

№ 003Due diligenceSeptember 2026

What a RERA check can and cannot tell you.

The registration number proves a project was filed, not that it is sound. The value is in the filings underneath it, read in sequence rather than one at a time.

Prana Engineering Studio8 min read

№ 004Heavy industrySeptember 2026

Tata Steel plant construction on brownfield sites.

A greenfield plant is a construction problem. A brownfield expansion is a choreography problem: every lift, every tie-in and every trench planned around a line that never stops.

Prana Engineering Studio6 min read

№ 005IndustrialSeptember 2026

Understanding the industrial shed.

A shed used to be the cheapest part of a plant. Once air quality, floor loading and uptime enter the brief, the shed becomes the engineering control everything else depends on.

Prana Engineering Studio10 min read

2025

4 essays

№ 006Field notesJune 2025

Why AI changes building design.

The next decade of construction will not be defined by taller towers, but by the buildings that host the machines behind our software, and the discipline it takes to build them.

Prana Engineering Studio9 min read

№ 007ResidentialMay 2025

Building better homes through better engineering.

A quiet argument for treating the family home with the same engineering seriousness as a bridge or a factory.

Design Practice6 min read

№ 008InfrastructureApril 2025

What makes mission-critical infrastructure different.

The gap between a warehouse and a data centre is not size. It is tolerance, redundancy, and the assumption that failure is unacceptable.

Prana Engineering Studio11 min read

№ 009IndiaMarch 2025

The future of industrial construction in India.

A generational shift is underway. Indian industry is no longer building sheds. It is building systems.

Studio Editorial8 min read

Chapter 08 · Contact

Let’s build something important.

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