Webinar - Maximizing Building Performance via Computational Design

While attending the Advancing Computational Building Design conference yesterday, which continues today, I learned about an interesting webinar coming up by WSP that I thought I would share here...

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Early Energy Modeling Presentation at UTSA - Yesterday

Yesterday I had the good fortune of presenting to architecture students at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). This was a great opportunity to share knowledge with a local architecture program... as I am the Director of Design Technology at Lake | Flato Architects in San Antonio, Texas.

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Glazing and Orientation Study in Autodesk Insight

Last week I did a quick study, using Revit + Insight, to highlight the pEUI sensitivity to orientation, emphasized by only having glazing on the east side of the building.

I also drastically adjusted the glazing performance within the Revit model, effectively adjusting the BIM Setting in Insight, which confirmed that is not required due to the ability to test inputs analytically within Insight.

Finally, I modeled three different sun shades to see how this would affect the results.

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Digital Construction Week - Webinar - How to Use Real-Time Visualizations Throughout the Entire Architectural Workflow

Next month I will be presenting on Enscape via the popular European Digital Construction Week's virtual 'DCW CONNECT FRINGE SERIES' online event.

I am excited to share some of my knowledge around architectural visualization gained over the years as an educator, author, blogger and Director of Design Technology at Lake|Flato Architects.

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DBEI Membership - Finally!

I finally got around to becoming a Digital Build Environment Institute (DBEI) member! With changing jobs, getting a house ready to sell and moving across the country I had been out of the loop on the DBEI actives during the pandemic. Today's post is about this program!

Looks like James Vandezande, CTO at HOK, had the same inclination as we signed up just two hours apart yesterday as seen in the image above!

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Desktop Connector Issue - Roll back advised

A quick heads up to watch out for a bad version of the Autodesk Desktop Connector... plus info on how to find the current installer and how to find who might have a bad, or out dated, version!

FYI: Desktop Connector is installed on computers when using BIM 360 Design to work on Revit models in the cloud.

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The New AIA 2030 DDx plus Lake Flato Stats

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) released a major update to its Design Data Exchange (DDx) platform this month. Today's post shares 'what's new' and a graph showing ten year's of progress at Lake Flato, as an AIA 2030 Commitment signatory.

Be sure to sign up for one of two overview sessions the AIA is hosting via the links below.

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Reminder - Advancing Computational Design 2020 Conference - Virtual Event

This is a quick reminder about an upcoming event I will be participating in... Advancing Computational Design 2020 Conference.

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Enscape Blog Post: 5 Best Practices for Creating a Realistic Interior Rendering

Check out my latest Enscape blog post... 5 Best Practices for Creating a Realistic Interior Rendering.

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Free Online AIA San Antonio Event - Introduction to Zero Carbon

My colleague Kate Sector, LFA, LEED Green Associate, Design Performance Coordinator at Lake | Flato, will be presenting Introduction to Zero Carbon: Achieving Operational & Embodied Balance next week. She is also the regional LFA Ambassador

The event is free and attendees receive AIA and LFA continuing education credit..

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New Enscape Animated Assets Coming Soon - Sneak Peak Here.

The new features just keep rolling in from the Enscape team. This time, coming soon in version 2.9, we have animated assets. For example, the news can be playing on a television screen while passing by!

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View BIM 360 Issues in Revit

Marco Ramolla, Autodesk Product Manager and Product Owner BIM 360 Design Collaboration and Product Manager Revit Issue Add-in, announced a new add-in for Revit that shows the BIM 360 issues.

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Link to Recording: BIM After Dark - BIM After Dark - Live: Revit & Enscape 2.8: Design, Present, Collaborate w/Dan Stine (Episode 26)

A quick post to share the link to the YouTube live session last night with The Revit Kid,  Jeffrey A. Pinheiro!

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BIM After Dark - Live: Revit & Enscape 2.8: Design, Present, Collaborate w/Dan Stine (Episode 26)

I will be a guest on Jeffrey A. Pinheiro's The Revit Kid live YouTube 'happy hour' again this week. We will be talking Enscape 2.8 new features, but I will also drop a few of the new 2.9 features at the end!

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