Ensuring success on your toughest construction missions.
DfMA for AECO
Design for Manufacturing & Assembly for Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and building Operations.
We help make your projects into effective and efficient built realities with fabrication modeling, detailing, shop drawings, CAD & BIM content, and value engineering for complex designs.
Our expert CAD and BIM skills combined with deep construction and fabrication experience helps empower your team with the support it needs.
Fabrication Strategy
Consulting, production strategy, and technical support.
We reduce construction risk and increase performance via expert advice, research, training, and project-specific workflow development.
Our robust understanding of modeling and fabrication processes helps your complex projects be a success.
Digital Fabrication
Advanced fabrication & installation services.
We can fabricate and deliver your project using the latest production technology.
Our in-house CNC digital fabrication shop and vetted subcontractors let us make almost anything.
We can quickly and efficiently produce and deliver your complex construction projects.
About Us
Secret Weapon Workshop helps AECO teams execute on their complex projects with expert modeling, consulting, and fabrication services.
Led by Jeffrey McGrew & Jillian Northrup, we’re bringing our decade+ of creative fabrication experience from Because We Can to the general construction industry.
Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, our robust workshop is ready to aid you in your toughest construction missions.
In-House Expertise
Industry leaders in BIM-to-Digital Fabrication workflows.
Experts in DfMA for the construction industry with proven experience.
Knowledgeable in prefabricated construction, modular construction, and hybrid onsite approaches.
Award-winning in-house Revit, Rhino, Inventor, Blender, & Fusion 360 talent.
Software development for production aids, automation, and online platforms.
Responsive, respectful, discreet, and engaged team to empower your design and production processes.
In-House Capabilities
High-precision 5-Axis CNC with a working area of 4’ x 8’ x 2’ for most metals, woods, and plastics.
Zund Digital Cutting Platform: felt, leather, technical fabrics, cardboard, plastics, composites.
Full wood, metal, and composite fabrication shop, including complex sheet metal production abilities.
Experienced logistics experts for planning, staging, shipping, and onsite installation of finished product.
An extensive collection of trusted local partners for metal laser cutting, waterjet cutting, large-format 3D printing, casting, and metal 3D printing.
A wide network of local and national material vendors to source things from the mundane to the exotic.
