The Path to BIM for Small Firms: February 20th Autodesk Webcast:

On Wednesday, February 20, 2008 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. PST, Autodesk is providing a webcast titled:

Building Information Modeling (BIM) Webcast: The Path to BIM for Small Firms

During the last 5-1/2 years, 85% of my Revit training and implementation projects; have been inside design firms with 5-10 design employees. Revit has afforded and empowered small design firms to do bigger, more specialized and profitable projects.

Here's an example (photo gallery) of a small East Coast design firm's residential project; that was designed in Revit and recognized by Architectural Digest.

Narofsky Architecture-Revit Project: Architectural Digest Recognition

Regardless of your business size, consider downloading this free, 62-page AIA Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) Guide which provides insight on the integration of a BIM design process into the IPD process.

The Path to BIM for Small Firms Webcast Registration Site

Design Schools Embracing BIM-Based Design Practice

Today's design practice is a digital design practice.

Credible design schools and their educational staff are ensuring that when students graduate with their BS in Engineering or MS in Architecture, they are well prepared and employable for their immediate roles in the "real design practice world".

I compiled this list of references for an educator on Revitcity.com. He wanted to show his peers the tangible need to update their design school's classes. Thereby improving the professional credibility of their professors, underscore the university's competitive-educational image and the value of their students' degree and employability.

Questioning the Role of BIM in Architectural Education: A Counter-Viewpoint
by Paul Seletsky, Associate AIA, the Director of Digital Design for Skidmore Owings and Merrill’s New York office. It was published in the AECbytes.com newsletter.

BIM Goes to School (PDF) Download Global perspective: This white paper focuses on how BIM is being leveraged within several universities around the world and how students who have access to this way of working are accelerating their design thinking and their studio work...and laying the foundation for dramatically advancing their industry in the future.

Autodesk Launches Academic Certification Program to Help Prepare the Next Generation of Professionals is a press release by Daratech (statistics crunchers) 9/2007

Autodesk Helps Bridge Gap Between Education and Industry press release from ThomasNet-Industrial Newsroom on connecting Nebraska schools to current and local industry required software.

1-2-3 Revit: BIM Goes to School By Bill Rundell, AIA.
This is a 2005 article when more than 80 colleges and universities were using Revit for their architect-engineering programs.

From an Educational Perspective: BIM in the Architectural Curriculum (PDF)
David R. Scheer, AIA, Associate Professor and Director
Center for Integrated Design and Construction
University of Utah College of Architecture + Planning

Abstract: As Building Information Modeling becomes the new standard for the AEC industry, the training of young professionals to work in this environment becomes a critical issue. Certain tendencies in current architectural education are clearly unsuited to BIM, whose value lies in its capacity to facilitate collaboration and accumulate information throughout the entire building lifecycle. An entirely new approach to architectural education is needed. This process has begun at the University of Utah's College of Architecture and Planning.

Curriculum changes are being tried, ranging from rethinking the design studio to the addition of new courses specifically addressing BIM. Greater involvement by industry in architectural education is needed to bring the collaboration-building aspects of BIM into the classroom and studio. Read on...

AECCafe: Autodesk Presents Revit BIM Experience Award to New Jersey Institute of Technology for Creation of Fully Digital Approach to Architectural Education

For those that feel that architecture is art, the [bim]x blog provides a quote from Frank Gehry on the business case of using digital design tools.

The employability news underscores the growing demand for BIM literacy and compentency. Take a quick look at the AIA job banks and engineering placement agencies. We can't find enough architects and engineers that know Revit to fill the waiting jobs for this BIM design process.

Design students are choosing degrees from institutions that have credible programs; that are relative to the current design business. Employers are hiring more graduates from these schools. Eventually the post graduation learning and financial costs fall back on the student (now employee) and the respective design firm that has hired him or her.

The message to design schools: A prestigious sheepskin that delivers unemployable skills, student loan debt and soaring employer training costs; is meaningless for tomorrow's designers and their respective employers to grow a successful design business.

Congratulations to those design schools and their staff that understand and teach the "real design practice methodology".

Download Autodesk University 2007 Class Handouts

Couldn't make it to AU 2007. Login to the Autodesk University website to download Autodesk University 2007 class handouts or view AU 2007 session screencasts.

Choose from hundreds of class handouts from a pool of training talent that scored a rating average of 8.85 by attendees for their presentations.

Free Workout With Revit Worksets - AUGI ATP Director

Eric Wing, AUGI ATP Director provides a 2-part series of free Workouts With Revit Worksets.

His first installment; Worksharing in Revit, Part 1 - September 2007 is now available.

Eric has also written (the first in a 2 part series) a Revit tutorial for AUGI's Magazine; AUGI World.

Eric's article; The Missing Link: How to Leverage Building Model Content Across Platforms is published on page 26 of September/October 2007 AUGI World. He outlines the process for linking and coordinating changes with Revit models from different disciplines.

Eric and I work together in the same company. Eric lives in New York. I first met him when we took/passed our Revit Implementation Expert (ICE) exams in Chicago earlier this year.

Eric’s activities within AUGI include: ATP Director, Survey Manager, ATP instructor, HotNews columnist and AUGIWorld columnist.

Revit 2008-3ds Max-Expert Visualization Blogger

Blogger and longtime 3D visualization expert, Mark Gerhard has posted an article "Revit to 3ds Max" which highlights the file exchange between Revit Architecture 2008 and Autodesk 3ds Max.

Recent topics include high level technical reviews; 3ds Max 2008 Announced and VIZ or MAX?

Mark's Visualization Solutions Blog has a RSS feed you can subscribe to and post in your RSS reader.

Make sure to stop by his Visualization Solutions Archive.

Mark Gerhard serves as an Autodesk webboard forum assistant for the 3ds Max forums. He has seventeen years experience with 3D Studio and 3ds Max products and was the first application engineer at Autodesk dedicated to the multimedia products.

BIM and Beam - Revit Structure Blog

A Chicago architect asked for a couple alternative methods for creating non-planar roofs. While browsing, I found this short Revit Structure tutorial; "Structural Framing Underneath a Warped Slab" that I forwarded to him

Credit goes to the Revit Structure blogging team of Nicolas Mangon and Wai Chu authors of BIM and Beam.

I first came across their blog with a May article; "Amazing Structures from China". It was a photo journal of two of the most complex buildings under construction in the world. The "Twisted Donut" and "The Nest". Their construction photos and renderings define a level of engineering and design that raises the bar for future buildings.

You can feed your RSS reader with their subscription link; http://bimandbeam.typepad.com/bim_beam/index.rdf

Free Revit MEP Tutorials-Streaming Media Format

Free audio-video Revit MEP tutorials have been posted on this site. They are presented in a general overview format. Consider using them for your next company "lunch and learn", prepare for an instructor-led class or to provide users/management with an idea of Revit functionality.

The site includes a Revit MEP Tutorials RSS/XML feed if you want to plug this link into your RSS reader. Your reader can monitor the site and alert you when new tutorials become available.

Currently the site has posted archived Revit MEP demonstration webcasts and these short overview tutorials:

Electrical

• Electrical Lighting and Power Circuitry
• Electrical Lighting Calculations
• Electrical Power Load Balancing, Wire Sizing and Panel Schedules
• Electrical Wire Tags and Lighting Switch Topology

Fire Protection

• Fire Protection Sprinkler Placement

Heating and Cooling

• Heating and Cooling Load Analysis

Mechanical

• Mechanical Design Criteria
• Mechanical Duct Sizing and Inspection
• Mechanical System and Duct Layout

Plumbing

• Plumbing System Layout

Free Revit Structure Tutorials-Streaming Media Format

Free audio-video Revit Structure tutorials have been posted on this site. They are presented in a general overview format. Consider using them for your next company "lunch and learns" or to provide users/management with an idea of Revit functionality.

The site includes a Revit Structure Tutorials RSS/XML feed if you want to plug this link into your RSS reader. Your reader can monitor the site and alert you when new tutorials become available.

Currently the site has posted archived Revit Structure demonstration webcasts and these short overview tutorials:

Top Features

• Single Model for Both Structural Analysis and Documentation
• Bidirectional Associativity Between Model and Views
• Construction Documents Structural Details
• Import/Export in DWG/DXF/DGN/IFC and CIS/2 formats
• Bidirectional Links with Analysis Packages
• Multiple Materials
• Structural Parametric Components
• Multi-users Worksharing Interoperability with Revit Architecture

Free Revit Architecture Tutorials-Streaming Media Format

Free audio-video Revit Architecture tutorials have been posted on this site. They are presented in a general overview format. Consider using them for your next company "lunch and learns" or to provide users/management with an idea of Revit functionality.

The site includes a Revit Architecture Tutorials RSS/XML feed if you want to plug this link into your RSS reader. Your reader can monitor the site and alert you when new tutorials become available.

Currently the site has posted archived Revit Architecture demonstration webcasts and these short overview tutorials:

Building Information Modeling

• Creating Sheets and Changing Numbers
• Starting a Project Easily
• Generate Views

Documentation

• Creating Annotation and Changing Scale
• Simple North Arrow Creation
• Scheduling with Ease

Visualization

• Conceptual Massing Studies
• Exporting Models to 3ds Max
• Quickly Create Presentation Visuals

A Grand Entrance Requires a Graceful Exit

You can expedite the loading of a Revit project file by following these guidelines when you exit a Revit project.

1. Always exit a Revit project file from a 2D view. Such as a floor plan, elevation, or drafting view.
2. Do not exit (leave) a project from a 3D (isometric or perspective) view.
3. Do not exit a project from a view that has "Shadows turned on". Typically, I suggest turning Shadows off when they are no longer needed in a view.

Use these steps to save and exit a Revit project (*.rvt) file.

1. Go to a 2D view
2. Go to the Window Pulldown Menu > Select Close Hidden Windows
3. Now Select the Save Command
4. Exit the project or software.

Revit component families (doors, windows, furniture) are 3-dimensional. In this case, you'll find Revit family files are intentionally saved from a 3D isometric view. Most familes are set to a default southeast isometric view.

The Revit OPEN dialog box and the Windows file manager (Explore) have a view type called "thumbnails". With thumbnails enabled, you can view family files in a folder using the 3D isometric thumbnail views.

Use these steps to save and exit a Revit component family (*.rfa) file.

1. Set your view to a 3D isometric view.
2. Use the View Pulldown Menu > Orient > Southeast
3. Go to the Window Pulldown Menu > Select Close Hidden Windows
4. Now Select the Save Command
5. Exit the Revit family file.

Auto-Rotating Revit Components: Revit Productivity Techniques

Revit provides two methods for rotating components as you place them into the project.

The easiest technique is to "tap" the SPACEBAR prior to placing a component.

Each time you tap the spacebar, the family component will rotate 90 degrees.

Use this same technique to place components parallel or perpendicular to building elements that are not on a 90-degree angle.

For example, as you insert a component, hold the cursor on the "linework" of an angular oriented building element or component.

While the linework is highlighted (not selected) by the cursor, tap the spacebar. The component attached to your cursor will pick up the angle of the reference object and will begin rotating at 90 degree increments, relative to the reference object's angle. The component is now parallel or perpendicular to the reference object.

The last method for rotating components prior to placement is located in the Options Bar.

Select the Component command and check the "Rotate after placement" checkbox in the Options Bar.

You can dynamically set the angle by picking a point on screen...or just start typing the value of the angle and press the Enter key. Done!

Revit Productivity Techniques: Assess Your Skillset

I'm publishing a productivity series titled; Revit Productivity Techniques. I have 6 techniques currently loaded into the blog auto-publisher; with several more almost complete. They'll be released every couple days.

As an instructor of 20+ years, I assess learners' skill levels prior to and during the course of every class. I have at least 15 base techniques-skills (outcomes) every Revit user should have when they leave my 3-day Revit Essentials class. These techniques will be published over the next few weeks. Consider using them for your own internal lunch and learns.

The first one will publish tomorrow, Friday, June 15th.

Until then, Happy Flag Day!

Feeddigest Links My Building Design Media Sources

I'm testing a web service called feeddigest to link the content I write for my company's
Architectural Solutions blog into this, my personal Revit JobCaptain blog.

My ASB blog content is posted on Revit JobCaptain main page, in the right margin of this screen; under Architectural Solutions Blog.

I posted a follow-up article to my original Our Home In Revit blog post; titled Designing A Greener Home With Revit on our company blog. I'll be taking this blog post's outline, photos, videos and Revit data I've created on the road soon as a "green educational" event.

A little about Feeddigest. If a web resource has syndication capabilities (xml/rss/rdf), take that link and enter it into Feeddigest. It creates javascript, vbscript or php source code that I can place into a webpage. As my syndication sources update, they update my html webpage.

I can blend several syndication sources into one feed. If I have two blogs, I enter both syndications URLs and Feeddigest creates a single feed from two blogs. I can also set key words/phrases and create a feed from multiple resources on a specific topic. So far, it's been pretty cool in my testing phase. It's free for 30 days and about $1 a month for an annual subscription.

I'm updating my Revit JobCaptain Lens and Home Planning and Design lens weekly with volumes of research and resources that eventually tie into my blogs. When I first started my 15 lenses, there were less than 5,000 lenses. At last count there are more than 100,000 Squidoo lenses.

A single page blog has limitations. Hopefully, my other web media sources will help you find content I've created or use that may be specific to your building design application.

Cheers!

Schools Leverage Alumni for Free Autodesk Software

This Autodesk promotion is limited to secondary schools; colleges, universities and technical colleges. Read the full story on my company blog and download the whitepaper for detailed information regarding the program. Schools Get Free Autodesk Software When You Purchase.

It's one of those Autodesk programs that was tough to find any detailed specifics on their website. A few calls and this is what I found. As an alumni, the best part is your purchase could place you as the hero to the school of your choice without any additional cost! Pretty easy.

Free Milwaukee Revit-ADT Learning Event: Thursday, August 17th

Registeration extended to August 11th!
Based on your enthusiastic response to this event, we have made arrangements with the hotel to provide additional seating. See you there!

I will be conducting free Revit training with several other of our Application Engineers in Milwaukee on Thursday, August 17th. This full day event will feature a 2-hour Executive Briefing in the morning featuring Alex Severino from Autodesk-Chicago and Bryan Cowles from our St. Lake City office. This session is for principals, owners and managers. Contact Lisa Casey to obtain your Executive invitation-pass. Her email address and phone number is on the Event-Registration-Description page.

We're providing lunch and after lunch we'll start the classes. There are four training tracks that include Revit, Revit Structure, Revit Systems / ABS, ADT / VIZ Render. We will have two 60-minute classes in each track for a total of eight free classes. We'll close the session with a 2-hour session that shows how to create collaboration strategies between the products utilizing the talents of Lisa Brady from Autodesk-Nashville.

Revit Building Track (view/register)
Instructor(s): Daniel Hughes

Analyze This!

A toolset for a designer's expanded role. Budget. Space. Energy. Certification. Phasing. Today's designers are managing more project data using Building Information Modeling's (BIM) live data scheduling. This class will show you how to begin creating Autodesk Revit schedules for quantity take off, space efficiency analysis, LEED certification, construction phasing, presenting design options and more. This will include setup of Revit's unique "shared parameters".

All in the Family

A basic to midrange class for creating families (symbols, walls, doors, AutoCAD blocks) in Revit Building. Not everything needs to be created in 3D. As we create families we'll review best practices, Revit's unique In-place families, adding materials, while using 3D modeling: extrusions, revolutions, sweeps, blends, voids, and assigning parameters (attributes) to the family.

Structural Engineering-Track (view/register)
Instructor(s): Betsy Werra / Bryan Cowles

All in the Structure Family
A basic introduction on creating families in Revit Structure
Topics include: 3D Modeling using extrusions, revolutions, sweeps, blends and voids Using parameters to drive the family design (tags & schedules) Creating detail components such as connection plates and bolting Adding materials

Worksets: The missing pieces to the Puzzle
Managing the project data between the structural engineers and drafters/designers using worksets. Topics Include: Starting a multi-user project by creating the central and local files for the project Creating the worksets for the project and explaining how the worksets are organized Saving, sharing, and synchronizing the work between the engineers & drafter/designers Adding and borrowing elements from worksets Best Practices with worksets

MEP Engineering-Track (view/register)
Instructor(s): Jill Bernhardt / Bryan Cowles

Calculated Designs with Revit Systems Plus
With the re-introduction of state energy codes, the amount of electricity consumed by different systems within the building is becoming increasingly important to the design. Learn to use Revit Systems Plus to automatically estimate the average illumination values for spaces, calculate wire sizing, and voltage drops. Create consumption usage reports for power and lighting. Automatically wire lighting fixtures and receptacles and add panel homeruns. Balance loads and generate panel schedules.

Get into the Zone with Revit Systems Plus
Quickly visualize your mechanical design criteria with color-filled dynamically updateable spaces and zones rather than pouring over spreadsheets. Create zones to export design data to energy analysis programs and import the results back into your project. Auto-route ductwork to explore design options. Use the Mechanical System Inspector to design for maximum economy and efficiency. Interactively change fittings, shape, or configuration and instantly see the updated static pressure loss and changes to flow properties.

Architectual Desktop Track (view/register)
Instructor(s): Jill Bernhardt / Lisa Brady

Illustrate your Point
Start taking advantage of the new quick and easy 3D graphics tools available right inside AutoCAD/ADT/ABS 2007 to create unique conceptual and realistic presentations. Learn how to walk and fly your clients through your 3D model. No exporting to VIZ Render or Autodesk VIZ required to create distinctive design impressions with these techniques.
Topics will include: Checking out the Dashboard, working with Visual Styles, applying materials to objects, adding lights and shadows to views, and navigating through your 3D model.

AutoCAD for Architects
Immediate Productivity in Architectural Desktop Get past using ADT like AutoCAD and see how you can be immediately productive with 2D architectural capability within Architectural Desktop. Topics include: Spaces, Details, Sheet Set Manager, Project Browser, Scheduling, and more!

Registeration extended to August 11th!

We'll see you there.

Family Editor - Free Web Training

This is a free online audio-video webcast training session from the Autodesk Archives. While this session uses Revit 7, "The Family Editor" is still valid to the current version of Revit.

Become a power-user! This webcast is for customers who want to create or modify components using the Autodesk Revit Family Editor. When working with a building model, your design intent often requires a specific component that may not be readily available. Using the powerful and versatile Family Editor feature, you can modify existing components or create new components to meet your precise needs. In this web session, learn how to work with the Family Editor to create new geometry, add instance and type parameters, use formulas such as conditional statements, and use visibility parameters to control the visibility of specific elements in a project.

Rotating Images Just Got Better

Revit 9 now allows rotation of imported raster images using the ROTATE command. Just pick the image and use the ROTATE command options. You can simply type in a precise angle in the options bar. You can also pick a base point and pick another point that rotates the image.

Remember, Revit's ROTATE command displays a rotation icon that represents the default base point. This icon can be dragged to a new location on or near the object being rotated. I found I could also "snap" reference planes to the endpoints of a raster image frame to help rotate images to match the angle of the reference plane..

Prior to Revit 9, the ROTATE command could only rotate raster images in 90 degree increments inside Revit. The ROTATE command could also be used to flip images horizontally or vertically.

If an image needed to be rotated other than 90 degrees, it had to be done in an imaging software prior to importing the image into Revit. I usually used the Microsoft Office Picture Manager which came with my Microsoft Office. The Picture Manager has a PICTURE pulldown menu that allows you to rotate and resize a raster image. This software is located in the START button > Programs > Microsoft Office > Microsoft Office Tools > Microsoft Office Picture Manager

Revit's Publish to Web Feature

Here's how to share project images with your clients in a HTML format. Using the Export > Image command, you can publish multiple views and/or sheets to a HTML web page. I found it while searching the Autodesk support site. A link to a publish to web example is at the bottom of this post.

To create (publish) an HTML web page of your views and/or sheets follow these steps.

1. Open a project.
2. On the File menu, click Export > Image.
3. In the Export Image dialog box, under Export Range, select the Selected views/sheets option.
4. Click Select.
5. Select views and sheets from the list. Click OK.
6. In the Export Image dialog box, under Output, select the Create browsable web site with a linked HTML page for each view option.
7. Select a name and path for the files.
8. Click OK.
9. Open the web site or webpage file.
10. Click on section hyperlinks to navigate views.

I posted a quick sample of the output from this feature. Design-Build Presentation

Free Online Revit Training - The Basics

This is a free online audio-video webcast training session from the Autodesk Archives. While this session uses Revit 7, "The Basics" is still valid to the current version of Revit.

In this web session, new or prospective users can discover the basic concepts of project design with the Autodesk® Revit® building information modeler. Learn how to create and modify basic components of a building model, such as walls, curtain systems, doors, and roofs; apply constraints to the building model to capture design intent; and make changes to the building model that are applied projectwide to all views, thus ensuring consistency, improving productivity, and boosting profitability.

One of the benefits of transferring my data to a new computer is finding all the bookmarks and favorites I've gathered from the last 2 years. Looks like there will be more to post.

Stop by my Revit 9 / AutoCAD 2007 Resource Page

Revit Tips to Tracing DWG Floor Plans

A few tips when tracing over linked DWG floor plan files;

During the import / linking of a DWG floor plan into your Revit project, you can choose an import option that allows you to specify which layers Revit should bring into the project: ALL, VISIBLE or SELECT.

When tracing over interior walls, select a Revit wall family and set the justification to "Wall Centerline". When your cursor hovers over the two AutoCAD line segments that represent a wall, Revit will find the centerline between the two lines....The "Wall Centerline" justification is the only wall justification that provides this pretty scary cool feature!

When DWG files are linked into Revit, you can use the PICK tool (arrow) to select the linework in the DWG file. Revit will use the selected linework/arc to create the respective Revit object. So if you select a curved wall line in the DWG file, Revit will create a curved wall using the exact geometry description from the DWG entity.



Remember that PLAN views usually have Model Graphics set to hidden line. When you place doors/windows into walls, consider setting the Model Graphics to Wireframe mode. You can now look down through the Revit wall and see the jambs that are displayed in the DWG file....which should more accurately assist you to view/place doors & windows.

The VIEW PROPERTIES of the view displaying the DWG file contains the VISIBILITY button with a separate tab called "Imported Categories; i.e. your DWG file. You can control the linked DWG file’s layer visibility (ON/OFF), color, linetype etc in here.

Avoid exploding imported DWG files. In our Revit 7 training class, the Autodesk trainers indicated that exploding files should be done as a last resort and only with small files. They indicated that exploding DWG files with more than 10,000 entities may result in missing information. It sounded like 10k of entities was a "cap" at that time with Revit 7. Other Revit users have also indicated performance issues when they exploded large DWG files in Revit.

Free Autodesk Online Web Training

Interoperability between Autodesk Revit and AutoCAD

This session is for customers who use Autodesk Revit and AutoCAD side by side and want to learn tips for using these products together for maximum productivity and fast return on investment. This web session covers how to link and export files, import details for sheet creation, link standard window details in the Family Editor, and build a Revit model from four existing 2D elevations. It also addresses the process of exporting standards to AutoCAD as well as other CAD applications.

My blog will provide more info:

How can I use my AutoCAD or Microstation files in a Revit-based Project?

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Free 3D Revit Downloads of Detailed Components

When you use the Revit OPEN command, make sure you visit the WEB LIBRARY located on the button in the upper right corner of the OPEN dialog box....tons of furniture, equipment, with a high level of detail.

or use this link Revit WEB LIBRARY

Tip: On each page of components, there is a filing cabinet icon in the upper right corner of the webpage. If you pick the filing cabinet button, you can download a zip file that contains all of the objects on that page...some zip files are 16MB - 26MB in size...tons of realistically detailed architectural components.

In the Revit Web Libray you will find this link to the Woodwork Institute which has a ton of downloadable 3D cabinet libraries in Revit (RVT), AutoCAD (DWG) and AutoCAD (DXF) format. Upper cabinets, base cabinets, corner cabinets, full height cabinets, utility cabinets with a wide variation of cabinets with doors, drawers and shelving.

The Revit family editor is pretty cool as a parametric solid modeler....it allows you to create dimensional variations of your furniture or equipment in one file...rather than creating multiple files.

We sometimes use contract furniture manufacturers' 3D furniture blocks from their websites/CD and "Revitize them" from AutoCAD 3D blocks into Revit Families. The benefit of turning it into a Revit family is I can add parameters (attribures) that allow me to create Revit schedules (furniture, equipment, ) based on the parameters assigned to the component.

I've posted some other suggestions on my company's blog site:

Revit Architecture-AutoCAD Architecture Class Handouts

I have an Archive button at the bottom of the main blog page.

Chcck out these other sites for potential, free Revit components that you can download.

www.augi.com
www.revitcity.com

Cheers!

Whitepapers: Revit, BIM Standards, Collaboration, LEED, Green & Sustainable Design

Daniel Hughes - Building Solutions Blog

I would like to thank the following organizations that have invited me to present either educational events and/or business-focused educational whitepapers for their members. A special personal thanks to AIA Wisconsin convention staff and the more than 14 years of working together with your team of professionals.

AIA Chicago
AIA Illinois
AIA Iowa
AIA Minnesota
AIA Wisconsin
Association of Licensed Architects
Construction Specifications Institute-Chicago
Young Architects Forum-Chicago

Based on association requests, I've created (2) 90-minute accredited educational presentations titled "The New Client Deliverables: Building Information Modeling (BIM)" and "Collaboration Strategies for Today's Progressive Design Firm".

I just completed a third whitepaper for the Young Architects Forum. It focuses on the emergence, interdependence and interoperability of sustainable design (LEED) and Building Information Modeling (BIM)

Contact a Taylor Technologies Account Representative or TTI's Marketing Department for your free copy. We will be posting them on our TTI Revit Source Page.