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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