Through this internship I have been able to work as support staff for a variety of projects. I’ve been able to take a residential addition project from concept to permit submittal, working on drawings in Autocad and Revit, modeling in Sketchup, and rendering in Lumion and Twinmotion. I’ve also been able to support the construction drawing development of a historical rehabilitation project, learning some of the requirements that go into renovating a building with the goal of attaining state and federal historic tax credits and grants. I have also had the opportunity to work on site feasibility studies, researching city zoning codes and working with the Minneapolis 2040 plan.

My responsibilities in this internship revolve around the residential construction documents for the two sister companies. It has taught me many things about timelines in the construction process and the communication required between all the different project managers and subcontractors. My main duties consist of making plan changes for the custom house designs in AutoCAD for each of the current residential jobs, along with helping streamline the drafting process by making sure all existing and previous plan sets are up to date and consistent.

This internship put me as the face of the Hennepin County Assessor’s Office, as I visited a thousand properties in the summer of 2018. This improved my customer service skills by allowing me to converse with many different property owner’s concerns and emotions.This opportunity gave me experience working with a large team of appraisers to collect county-wide data of existing residential properties for each year’s revaluation. The data-collection portion of this internship entailed analyzing permits and the physical appearance of each property and measuring the footprint of the structure to determine the value and taxable percentage of each residence.

This internship put me as the face of the Hennepin County Assessor’s Office, as I visited a thousand properties in the summer of 2018. This improved my customer service skills by allowing me to converse with many different property owner’s concerns and emotions.This opportunity gave me experience working with a large team of appraisers to collect county-wide data of existing residential properties for each year’s revaluation. The data-collection portion of this internship entailed analyzing permits and the physical appearance of each property and measuring the footprint of the structure to determine the value and taxable percentage of each residence.