A Year in Review, plus Top 2021 Posts on BIM Chapters

As another interesting year comes to a close I want to share a post on the year that was 2021, the top ten posts, highlights, and mention a few of my favorites...

Before the top 10, here are a few of my personal favorites:

• Revit + Insight - Custom Schematic Wall Construction
• Revit + Insight - Mixed Use Occupancy Energy Model
• Lake|Flato's Confluence Park - Nature as Inspiration
• Embodied Carbon Report via Lake Flato Investigations

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AIA 2030 By The Numbers - 2020 Report

Every year the American Institute of Architects (AIA) publishes a report which tracks progress on their AIA 2030 Commitment initiative. My First summary on this was back in 2017... here is my latest installment covering the 2020 data, that just came out.

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Revit Ideas - Revit Materials Hosted in BIM 360 - Added to Roadmap

Happy to see Autodesk has added the ability to host shared appearance asset resources in BIM 360 to their public roadmap.

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2021 World Green Building Trends - Doge Report

A new Dodge Data & Analytics report was recently released... 2021 World Green Building Trends. Today's post shares a link to this document and mentions a Lake|Flato project included in the table of contents.

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Penn State - Department of Architecture - Student Design Review

Last week I had the opportunity to participate in Associate Professor Rahman Azari's Arch 431/491 end-of-semester design review at Penn State. This is the topic of today's post.

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Revit + Insight - Custom Schematic Wall Construction

In Revit we can specify a Schematic wall construction which is applied to all walls/vertical mass surfaces, determined to be an exterior wall by the energy analysis model (EAM) creation algorithm. While the list has a fairly large number of wall constructions to choose from, it is possible create custom selections. That is the topic of today's post.

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Revit + Insight - Mixed Use Occupancy Energy Model

In today's post I will show how we can define a mixed use occupancy in Revit to develop a more accurate energy model.

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New Book - Lake Flato Houses: Respecting the Land

Lake Flato's newest residential book has been published by Rizzoli... Lake Flato Houses: Respecting the Land.

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Enscape 3.2 Released

Enscape released their 3.2 update, and as usual it is packed pull of new features! Today's post covers this and gives a plug for The Revit Kid's review on YouTube.

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