What Revit Wants
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This short paper sets out Andy Black‘s personal observations based upon four decades of working in the hospital world.
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Download the full white paper ‘Notes on the design of hospitals and their clinical organisation’, from the Australian HealthCare Week site…
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A New Approach for the Design of Tomorrow’s Hospital – A2K Technologies Blog
If 446 MB is a bit steep for your Ipad, maybe an 18 MB PDF is more appropriate?
Download this .pdf version of the first Autodesk design book to view on your computer or tablet device.
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Autodesk – Book – Imagine Design Create
This is not exactly the same as the interactive Ipad app, but it seems much of the printed content is similar. Here is a link to the free Ipad app:
Autodesk® Imagine, Design, Create
By Autodesk Inc. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/autodesk-imagine-design-create/id479894743?mt=8
This little re-quote has been sitting in my ‘Drafts’ folder for a while. I find it quite challenging:
AEC is the only profession where the fabricators do not own the designers. Nike designs and then fabricates the shoe, Ikea designs and then fabricates the products and basically every element around us owns the fabrication and the design. When contractors figure out how to control the design, then the industry will be turned upside down.
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Jason Grant’s Blog – Adaptive Practice by Jason Grant
What do you think?
When contractors figure out how to control the design, then the industry will be turned upside down.
The above quote is from Jason Grant’s Blog. For a while now, it has been my desire to post about the future convergence of design and fabrication, but I am struggling to find both the ‘time’ and the ‘angle’ to write from.
At RTC Australia, in the ‘Film and Stage’ session with Phil Read, we discussed the workflow on a film set. Essentially, everything happens quickly – the design and construct timeframe is exceedingly compressed. All the parts of the process must be expedited: Brief – Schematic – Design Development – Modelling / Documentation – Output to Fabrication. Some of the work is done using a type of CNC hotwire cutting process, with styrofoam as the substrate.
Here is an example of such a fabrication method:
How does this all affect AEC and Building Design and Construction? Well, I think time will ultimately tell. I don’t feel like making sweeping assertions today…
However, I would assume that the concept of ‘compressed timelines’ will continue to impact on the AEC Design and Construction process.
In the meantime, consider the rest of the quote:
AEC is the only profession where the fabricators do not own the designers. Nike designs and then fabricates the shoe, Ikea designs and then fabricates the products and basically every element around us owns the fabrication and the design. When contractors figure out how to control the design, then the industry will be turned upside down.
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Jason Grant’s Blog
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Feel free to comment and share your wisdom…
Something is coming from Autodesk and my guess is that it is design related. Many Autodeskers have been teasing an upcoming announcement from Autodesk that will be made on the 16th of August 2011.
www.cad-a-blog.com
The AutoCAD team has a big day coming up, and we want you to help us plan it!
LT Unlimited: Somethings coming
What do you think?
What is coming on August 16?
Check out this collection of BIM design resources:
BIM Libraries | Whole Building Design Guide
For instance, there are links to multiple different ‘standards’ and guides. A few are listed below:
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A process for seamless, efficient, reproducible exchange of accurate and reliable that is widely and routinely utilized among all tools and stakeholders.
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Quarry Group BIM Roadmap (PDF 148 KB)
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Online and print magazine covering AEC, MCAD, and GIS
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The reading room for computer aided design
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This twice-yearly publication provides articles of interest to the community. A live version with web content is being planned to augment the current product.
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Presentation by Howard Ashcraft, Hanson Bridget and Dennis Sheldon, Gehry Technologies
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These documents define how data is represented, shared, and managed between the myriad of software applications used in the structural steelwork industry.
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IFC Model (PDF 1.3 MB)
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Texas Facilities Commission—Professional Service Provider Guidelines and Standards
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