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The location has been selected. And it’s great!
When: Tomorrow night. Tuesday. 9pm until (this is Vegas). No cover until 10pm. Get in early!
Location: Mix Lounge. 64th floor of THEhotel at Mandalay Bay.
Dress Code: I’m buying your first round if you’re dressed appropriately. Them’s the rules.
See you there!
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Documentation for “Autodesk® Revit® for Film and Stage” has been posted on the AU 2009 Website! Link here and another here compliments of Dropbox. And another set of links has been added just to the right (over there – to the right of this post…above the t-shirt), including a link to Eddy Krygiel’s session, “Using Autodesk® Revit® and 3ds Max® Design for Daylighting”.
It’s a largish PDF (33mb) file and at nearly 40 pages I’m really glad Autodesk isn’t printing documents this year. No – not because trees have souls (Ents have souls, but that’s another story…). It’s simply that the color and resolution of an electronic file is such a better customer experience and they’re saving a lot of money and resources in the process.
There is a link at the bottom of the cover page to some associated Revit files. But no links to any of the actual set designs (sorry – them’s the rules).
Overall, I owe an extraordinary debt to Bryan Sutton, who has been extremely gracious and patient during some tough times (tougher than you know). He’s obviously Canadian – but this is way above the required level of niceness mandated by the Canadian government. And this session would not have been possible without his direction, input and sense of humor!
While I’ve seen some pretty incredible work in Revit over the last 10 years or so, Bryan Sutton has taken Revit and elevated it’s use to an art form – by no means an easy task. There’s a joyful elegance to the linework, color and geometric attention to detail. And in this sense, I really don’t know of anyone that has accomplished more with Revit.
Like guitar makers that sponsor accomplished musicians to play their instruments, Autodesk should sponsor Bryan Sutton! 🙂
See everyone in a few days! AU2009 is nearly here!
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“It’s called ProFORMA, or Probabilistic Feature-based On-line Rapid Model Acquisition, but it is way cooler than it sounds. The software, written by a team headed by Qui Pan, a student at the Department of Engineering at Cambridge University in England, turns a regular, cheap webcam into a 3D scanner.”
Read more about it at the Gadget Lab on WIRED.com
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The Order of the Drunken Leprechaun
Hey, Phil is still promising beer. But with the new venue, we gotta find a place. Check the blog for updates. It’s all about location, location, location.
See you all @ AU.
Oh, and PS. Check my daylighting class Tuesday night @ 5pm. AB122-4. Not as heavily promoted as stairs, but equally as enjoyable.
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Documentation for “Insanely Great Stairs and Railings with Autodesk® Revit®” has been posted on the AU 2009 Website! Link here and another here compliments of Dropbox. Once you download the PDF file, you’ll find there’s a bunch of links right at the bottom of the cover page. The very last link is to the 100MB or so of datasets and sample files.
Disclaimer: you use one of these stairs in a real project you owe me a beer. And not a some crappy American beer designed to be consumed minutes after production and measured in volumes rounded to the nearest cubic kilometer.
I’m talking about one of these:
Preferably the bottle on the far left. Long story – but it’s JamesV’s fault. Buy me one of those and I’ll really tell you what I think about the 2010 UI. 😉
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Even if you don’t work for SOM, this is way too cool. Construction workers at Burj Dubai have been posting video from atop the world’s tallest building. Here’s one (via Arch Daily) from the very top of the spire…
Also of interest are videos on SOM’s website featuring structural engineering partner Bill Baker discuss the concepts behind tall towers in “Structural Lessons” or his lecture at the Skyscraper Museum.
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[ Co-posted on “All Things BIM” ]
Yet another organization in the United States has hopped on the BIM wagon…this time it’s Indiana University (IU). I recently had the opportunity to speak with Theresa Thompson LEED AP, the Director of In-House Projects & Spatial/Project Information at the University Architect’s Office about their new BIM requirements and associated documentation.
Over the last two years, Indiana University has been embracing the use of building information modeling to expand and enhance their commitment to sustainable design and efficient use of funding through lifecycle data management. This journey began with various GIS and facility management implementations and has come full circle to encompass the building design and construction domain.
Earlier in 2009, IU had a positive experience with BIM – going literally from light table coordination to virtual building model – on the completed Innovation Center at their Bloomington campus. Messer Construction Company led the effort by generating models of the design data from BSA LifeStructures, ensuring a successful project delivery and a happy client in IU. In October 2009, the university announced that it would require the use of BIM tools and processes for all capital projects over 5 million dollars and on all projects within the next year or two.
IU has made the following documents available on their website:
The following are the key objectives behind the IU BIM/IPD program:
Beyond the usual standards and protocols, here are a few interesting highlights I found while reading the IU documents.
By focusing on data reuse for facility management, Indiana University presents a clear understanding of their objectives in requiring a BIM/IPD process. At the same time, IU is still learning about the process by placing much of the design and construction BIM standards in the hands of the architects, engineers and contractors. These documents and others listed below can help the AEC industry continue to improve its efficiency and can also assist those just learning about the implementation of building information modeling and integrated project delivery.
BIM Proficiency Matrix (BPM)
Other recently published BIM standards:
Wisconsin BIM Standards: http://www.doa.state.wi.us/dsf/masterspec_view_new.asp?catid=61&locid=4
US Army Corps of Engineers, New York District BIM Standards:
http://www.nan.usace.army.mil/business/buslinks/contract/ae/index.htm
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Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates announced it has completed conceptual design for Lotte Super Tower 123 in Seoul, South Korea.
Read all about the announcement on:
What makes this project special to me? For one thing, it is slated to be the world’s second tallest tower to SOM’s Burj Dubai, but it was a lesser known fact that SOM actually designed an earlier version of the Lotte Tower in Revit as a follow up to 1WTC.
In the Lotte World Tower design, we were able to build on the BIM pioneering achieved with WTC. The complex diagrid and curtain wall were designed and optimized through scripting in AutoCAD and Excel, modeled and tested in Digital Project and composited for documentation in Revit Architecture. It was quite an amazing project with an equally amazing team.
We even had started to coordinate structure and MEP systems in Navisworks for the first time on this project (see below).
>The world wildlife fund created a bit of ‘performance sculpture’ in Berlin recently. They put 1,000 ice sculptures on the steps of the concert hall in Gendarmenmarkt to bring awareness to global warming. Regardless what you think about global warming (real), it’s a great display of art and delivers an awesome message.
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