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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Friday, October 30, 2020
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
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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Tuesday, October 27, 2020
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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Monday, October 26, 2020
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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Wednesday, October 21, 2020
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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Tuesday, October 20, 2020
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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Friday, October 16, 2020
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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