BIM Chapters: Roast by KieranTimberlake

Monday, May 21, 2018

Roast by KieranTimberlake

With the impending commercial release, I would like to offer a review of KieranTimberlake's (KT) product called ROAST. LHB had the opportunity to beta test this new cloud-based Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) delivery tool.

In the big-picture, one creates a survey by selected from canned questions, feeds in...
floor plans, specifies participants, and then schedules the survey. Participants are emailed a link to the survey based on the schedule - which can be multiple times a day, week or month. At the start of the survey, participants select their location in the building and indicate what clothing they are wearing and recent activity level. The results are then presented in an easy to read format like the example shown above.

This is a great way to move the industry forward by harvesting honest user feedback. The people using the building should be happy and comfortable. If they are not, we need to understand why and, at the very least, apply those lessons-learned to the next project.

Sadly, the biggest challenge our industry faces in adopting new technology like this is our dependence on ancient browser technology; namely Internet Explorer (IE). Pretty much anything but IE works... I use Chrome.

Related Info:

In case you did not know, KT also has a Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) tool which works within Revit. I previously wrote about Tally here: Tally - Life Cycle Assessment - By KieranTimberlake
We (LHB) have administered, and presented on, POE's which I wrote about here:
Pre/post-occupancy Evaluations and Generative Design
Related ARCHITECT Magazine article:
KieranTimberlake to Launch Roast, an App for Architects to Conduct Post-Occupancy Evaluations

If you are interested in more details, I suggest your reach out, via the links above, and request a demo. In the meantime, I went a little screenshot crazy documenting the full experience in images...