AEC+Tech talk -- follow up -- Design Technology for High Performance Design

I quick share about an AEC+Tech talk I was on recently. I have included a link to the video and a follow up article. I presented alongside Kristen Forward from NBBJ Design on Design Technology for High Performance Design. I spent some time talking about our related process here at Lake|Flato.

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Reference 3D Views in Revit with View Reference - New Autodesk Community Voices Post

A quick post to share a new post I published over at the Autodesk Community Voices blog. This one covers an essential workflow for referencing 3D details and/or interior elevations in formal documentation!

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ClimateStudio Blog Post on Lake|Flato Project

ClimateStudio just published a new blog post about a new middle school project Lake|Flato is designing in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Their post, covering our typical daylighting analysis workflow, is the topic of today's BIM Chapters post.

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ArchDaily Rendering Competition - Next Round - Please Vote!

A quick post to share that one of our Lake|Flato renderings has moved on to the next round... please consider voting for it, or another favorite of yours.

This is a lobby rendering of our own office remodel, currently under construction, here in San Antonio...

https://boty.archdaily.com/ava/2022/candidates/152059/lobby-reimagined

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Climate Studio Revit Plug-in

Lake|Flato's go-to tool for all things daylighting is Climate Studio (CS), by Solemma. CS is an add-in for Rhino. Often, the design we want to study is in Autodesk Revit. This process has been extremely simplified by the Revit add-in Solemma created to streamline the process of getting a Revit model into Rhino for use by CS.

In today's post I will walk you through the entire process!

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Lake|Flato House Zero - 3D-Printed House

Yesterday I had the opportunity to drive 1.5 hours from my house to tour the recently completed 3D printed House Zero, designed by Lake|Flato, in Austin, Texas. In today's post I will share several photos I took, including some shots I have not seen published:)

Several L|F staff gathered for a tour lead by Ashley Heeren

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Troubleshooting Revit EAM Creation + Insight and Systems Analysis Issues

As with any sophisticated program developed for a professional application, there is a learning curve and a number of things that can go wrong. Some of the problems arise from user error while others can be bugs or limitations within the application.

This post is planned to be a living document on things that can go wrong, and what to do about it, when creating the energy analysis model (EAM) within Revit, as well as troubleshooting problems, further downstream, within Autodesk Insight and Revit Systems Analysis tools and workflows.

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