Sean Beatty: Masterminding the Creation of Virtual Design and Construction Tools—On Steroids—To Avoid Thousands of Hours of Rework at Seattle’s Strenuous Aquarium
If not for the Great Recession and Sean Beatty, construction of the curvaceous reinforced concrete sea-creature tanks in the 50,000-sq-ft Seattle Aquarium Ocean Pavilion would have been even more arduous.
Without the 2007-9 recession, Beatty would not have been laid off from his job at a small architecture firm in Seattle. If not for that, he would not have gotten a second master’s, this time in construction management. And he would not have landed a job at Turner Construction Co., eventually joining the virtual design and construction department—where he became critical to the success of Turner’s audacious aquarium job.