Abraham N. Rodriguez
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After having a chance to look back and collect my thoughts about it I must say that I am very glad I attended the Changing Times conference. What I thought was going to be an interesting, yet predictable, conference on the current trends of the prof…
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The conference started talking about how a large and clunky beast the current AEC industry is. Some pretty scary statistics were given: 31% of traditional construction projects are behind schedule, 34% of them are over budget, and annually architect…
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In late 2008 I was riding high. Employed in one of Chicago’s top firms and working on a glamorous international project I thought nothing could go wrong. And while I saw the signs of the economic meltdown happening, I foolishly thought everything wo…
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Post-Conference Reflection

After having a chance to look back and collect my thoughts about it I must say that I am very glad I attended the Changing Times conference. What I thought was going to be an interesting, yet predictable, conference on the current trends of the profession ended up being a very enlightening conference that has influenced my thoughts about where I want my career to go. While I’ve known for some time that I want to focus on Design/Build and sustainability (the latter going without saying), the conf… Continue

Posted on September 29, 2009 at 10:01pm —

Abraham N. Rodriguez

Change Design with Paramedic Methods

Presentation by Volker Mueller.

In this presentation Mueller discussed the basics of parametric design and gave a few case studies. While admittedly some of his presentation went a bit over my head (his presentation went into some pretty deep descriptions that I'm still somewhat not clear on) the basic concepts of what he discussed are very interesting and made me want to research this topic further.

Parametric design is basically design taking into account what are the parameters (things that… Continue

Posted on September 26, 2009 at 10:28pm —

Abraham N. Rodriguez

The Competative Advantige of a Virtual Design Studio

Presented by Brian Weldy of HCA.

Brian led this presentation more as a discussion on successful collaboration general, and discussed at the end how these concepts can be applied utilizing online collaboration technology.

Weldy divided his presentation in discussion the basics of a successful collaborations, the culture of interpersonal relationships, establishing what goals need to be meet, properly planing and coordinating your efforts, and the pitfalls of an unsuccessful collaboration. Parti… Continue

Posted on September 26, 2009 at 10:00pm —

Abraham N. Rodriguez

Collaborative BIM for Eco-Effective Project Delivery

Zigmund Rubel of Anshen + Allen Architects presented this lecture on his firm's work on the Mills Peninsula Hospital, a new green hospital that consumes 50% less energy than a typical US hospital.

While this presentation was pretty informative (and the design of this hospital is actually pretty interesting), I don't think it offered anything new from the rest of the presentation I had heard before regarding BIM, IPD, and sustainability. The fact that I saw this presentation on a Friday afternoo… Continue

Posted on September 25, 2009 at 8:36pm —

 
 
 

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