My Revit 2024 Enscape posts & my Trip to Chaos HQ

Did you know I have been writing blog posts for Enscape since 2016?

This year I also had the opportunity to visit the Chaos HQ in Germany, followed by a trip to an event at the Chaos office in Bulgaria!

In today's post, I will highlight my 2024 posts on the Enscape blog and my Chaos offices visit!

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BIM Chapters 2024 Recap and Top Ten Posts

This year has been an incredible journey—I had the privilege of presenting at several major industry events and am honored to have received the 2024 AIA San Antonio Trailblazer Award. 

In today's post, I want to share the top ten posts on BIM Chapters, which are nicely spread across 2024.

Plus, 2025 is already shaping up to be an exciting year with a keynote in January, a presentation at NVIDIA GTC in Silicon Valley, and a workshop at a conference in Japan! I will also enter my last year of service on the national AIA COTE LG.

Photo: me with David Lake & Ted Flato

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Meet the Judges of the BIMsmith Winter Wonderland 2024 Competition!

The annual BIMsmith Winter Wonderland competition is underway, and I get to be one of the judges! Get your entries in by the deadline (12/27) and possibly win up to $500.

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Exploration - Knowledge Architecture IntraNet inside Revit

Lake Flato uses Knowledge Architecture Synthesis 6 as our intranet platform - we call this site FlakeNet (btw, our summer outing is called Flake Lato:)). S6 is designed for AEC and can easily connect to Deltek and OpenAsset to see client and project data and project and staff photos.

Using a bit of a hack, I wanted to test the idea of presenting FlakeNet directly within Revit as a start screen with the goal of deeper knowledge penetration and access to support resources for our designers.

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Enscape Impact -- Sensitivity Review

In this post, I ran a Lake|Flato project through Enscape Impact, then made some design changes, and dropped it into three other climate zones to test the sensitivity of the changes... are they what I expected? Read on to find out:)

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