Jerrud Davis
Jerrud Davis

Licensed Architect & Software Developer

Jerrud Davis

25 years in architecture and construction. I design healthcare buildings and write the software that helps build them.

Practice

25 years across three disciplines

Licensed architect

Architecture

Licensed to practice, with experience across the full arc of a project: programming, design, construction documents and construction administration.

Clinical environments

Healthcare

Healthcare facilities, where infection control, clinical workflow, equipment and code compliance all have to agree in one plan.

Developer

Construction software

Tools that read building models and turn them into things a shop floor can make: geometry, cut paths and fabrication data.

Patent

Graph theory for finding corners in 3D models

Patent application submitted

Treat a 3D model as a graph, and its corners stop being a guess.

Building models are full of near-duplicate vertices, split faces and coplanar seams. Finding the real corners of a wall or soffit by inspecting faces one at a time is fragile. My application describes reading the model's topology as a graph and finding corners from how it is connected.

  1. 1
    Build the graphMesh vertices become nodes and shared edges become links, with coincident points merged.
  2. 2
    Traverse itWalk the surface by connectivity, carrying the face normals that meet at each node.
  3. 3
    Classify the cornersNodes where non-coplanar faces meet are tagged as inside or outside corners, ready for fabrication.

Milled drywall

Corners made in the shop, folded on site

Flat board with 90° V-grooves Folded into a column wrap foldfold column folded corners
6years writing milled drywall software

Milled drywall replaces field-built corners with folds. A CNC router cuts V-grooves into the back of a gypsum board, leaving the face paper intact, and the board folds into a clean, factory-true corner on site.

I develop the software behind it, train crews on site and support projects across the country.

Projects
150+
Milled shapes per project
12 to 1,000s
Reach
Nationwide

The software runs on healthcare facilities of every size throughout the United States, from very small clinics to very large hospitals.

  • Software development
  • On-site training
  • National project support
  • V-groove toolpaths
  • Prefab soffits & wraps

Talks & study

Sharing the work, sharpening the math

Presentation

Penn State

Presented my work at Penn State, bringing practice from architecture and construction software into an academic setting.

Week-long seminar · Amsterdam

Geometric Algebra

Traveled to Amsterdam for a week-long seminar on Geometric Algebra, the mathematics of points, lines, planes and rotations that underpins how I reason about 3D models.

Architecture, healthcare projects, construction software or fabrication geometry.

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