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Closing Keynote - Daniel S Friedman

Delivering a provocative closing keynote to the Changing Times Time for Change conference, Daniel Friedman Dean of the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington presented the state of architecture in education and the challenges inextricably shared with the profession today. Noting that there have been efforts to move education forward to very little effect, Friedman noted that there were a couple bright spots where the curriculum (MINN & CINN were two examples) has move… Continue

Added by Pete Evans, AIA on September 30, 2009 at 1:00am — No Comments

O5 The Integrated Enterprise

The Integrated Enterprise Peter Beck, Beck Technologies Mr Beck introduced his stimulating presentation by proposing that Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) is halfway there (only and not already halfway). My having witnessed the professional conversation on this topic grow over the past few years, this came as a challenging introduction. In defining integration, Mr Beck indicated that how is it practiced is an alignment of incentives through contract or a business model based on risk and rewar… Continue

Added by Pete Evans, AIA on September 29, 2009 at 11:30pm — No Comments

T3 Beyond Desktop BIM: Unleashing the Information

Beyond Desktop BIM: Unleashing the Information Russ Sanders presenting Why Change? Now more than ever efficiency & flexibility, interoperability, competition for fewer available projects, collaboration is expected… Russ presented three main topics: (1) "The rest of the data"… it's not just BIM; (2) Collaboration in early conceptual design; and (3) Desktop Design - some "groundbreaking news" "The rest of the data" There are 3 different types of data in AE projects: 1 project planning data… Continue

Added by Pete Evans, AIA on September 29, 2009 at 10:38pm — No Comments

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

Added by Abraham N. Rodriguez on September 29, 2009 at 10:01pm — No Comments

Reflections on the Conference

Overall I received the impression that the architecture profession is changing, though not as fast as the rest of the world. There seems to be widespread use and acceptance of BIM, according to the presentations I saw. I am a believer because it is happening in my firm as well. There is excitement over Integrated Practice and Integrated Project Delivery, that there might be a diminishing of skepticism, mistrust and self-interest. The paradigm shift will be to people doing what's best for the pr… Continue

Added by Laurie Schwalb on September 28, 2009 at 4:38pm — No Comments

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

Added by Abraham N. Rodriguez on September 26, 2009 at 10:28pm — No Comments

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

Added by Abraham N. Rodriguez on September 26, 2009 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Post Conference Reflection

I definitely had the recurring themes of IPD and BIM drilled into me. Having experienced both first-hand I can say BIM is great and IPD can be if it's done right. Most everyone here is feeling the recession. Some are making complete about-faces and reinventing themselves and some are making smaller changes to position themselves for the recovery. I have known for a while now that young architects of the future won't be doing the drawing as they are now. All of this work can be outsourced to th… Continue

Added by Steven Pantazis on September 26, 2009 at 1:37pm — No Comments

Session Summary: Bioteaming: Using Lessons from Nature to Develop a Distributed Workforce.

I don't know how this could be the 3rd virtual office/remote office session I signed up for. Maybe my subconscious is telling me something. Cliff Moser has something of an obsession with ants that added some lightness to his presentation. The majority of his office works from home which can be a challenge. But rather than managing personal he recommends approaching it from a different perspective to manage results instead. On the projects he is responsible for, no one person is in charge; ever… Continue

Added by Steven Pantazis on September 26, 2009 at 12:42pm — No Comments

Finding Pearls in the Process: Leveraging the Information Created by BIM

Presented by Bradley C. Horst, EYP and Erin Rae Hoffer, Autodesk Understanding knowledge is the key to value. To leverage AEC data, need to look at lessons learned, compile insights, metrics for building performance Firms have ways to handle: Information creation, Information aggregation, Information revision & augmentation, Information management & archive & access Need portals for information leverage: interface/intranets? The beneficiary of BIM is the owner. We need to evaluate da… Continue

Added by Laurie Schwalb on September 26, 2009 at 12:39pm — No Comments

Bim Technologies that Inform Concept Design

Presented by Chuck Eastman and Paola Sanguinetti of Georgia Tech; Bim changes the level of effort involved in design/construction to more align with value-added distribution. There could be pushback due to resistance to higher early fees. The traditional fee structure is not appropriate with BIM. A Georgia Tech team, including Chuck, Paola and a group of PHD students, is working on automation of early concept design for the GSA. GSA has a distinction between early and late concept. Early stages… Continue

Added by Laurie Schwalb on September 26, 2009 at 4:47am — No Comments

T4 Interoperability: Challenges and Opportunities

To date, some limited gain but not much promotable success. However, Major steps forward with current models, groups and processes (including new release of IFC in April 2010). BIM is… Parametric modeling of buildings, overlaid with large set of predefined objects Categories of BIM software (design & development primarily) Revit Bentley ArchiCAD Vectorworks __________ Digital Project (CATIA-base) (both design & fabrication) __________ (then more fabrication) Tekla Structureworks Design… Continue

Added by Pete Evans, AIA on September 25, 2009 at 11:19pm — No Comments

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

Added by Abraham N. Rodriguez on September 25, 2009 at 8:36pm — No Comments

The Firm of the Future: Big Picture Trends Shaping the Future of Design Firms

This was a very interesting and insightful presentation by Ray Kogan on the big trends that will be changing the face of architectural practice in the coming future. According to Ray, the major trends that will be shaping practice are: 1.Demographics: the mayor population increases in the US are going to be minority groups (Hispanics are the number one growing population) and this, along with increased immigration will give us a more d… Continue

Added by Abraham N. Rodriguez on September 25, 2009 at 8:17pm — No Comments

Session Summary: Nomads & Monads: The Virtual Architectural Office

Pavel Getov was a director at Morphosis for a number of years so this presentation was a little more cutting edge but also touched on the recurring themes of BIM and IPD. He based his presentation on two projects, the New Academic Building at Cooper Union which has been getting a ton of press, and another academic building in Madrid. Mr. Getov recently started his own company based in L.A. and described how he was working on a project based in Bulgaria with the contractor and MEP hired by the… Continue

Added by Steven Pantazis on September 25, 2009 at 6:00pm — No Comments

The Jackson Courthouse: Changing Project Delivery Methods in the GSA

Presented by Brian Kimsey of GSA and Matthew Jogan of GHAFARI This was a GSA pilot project. GHAFARI was selected as BIM manager since Design teams had no previous BIM experience. They had a list of elements they wanted modeled, with no previous experience with what they wanted. Selected Autodesk software Revit, ABS, AutoCAD. Did a hybrid 3d/2d approach, not everything was modeled. Had multiple coordination models. Early success with space planning, also with 2d drawing production, visualization… Continue

Added by Laurie Schwalb on September 25, 2009 at 5:51pm — No Comments

30 Years in IPD-Design Excellence, Sustainability & Innovation

Presentation by Calvin Kam and OPTIMA's David Hovey, Jr. Optima (founded in 1978 by David Hovey, Sr.) has been doing IPD for the last 30 years acting as the developer, architect, and contractor and well as doing sales, leasing, and property management. While they are the developer, they have a commitment to excellence in architectural design. As they control the whole process, they are able to move projects along very quickly. The main projects profiled are: Old Orchard Woods in Skokie, IL. M… Continue

Added by Abraham N. Rodriguez on September 25, 2009 at 4:20pm — No Comments

Session Summary: The Flexible, Sustainable & Integrated Firm of the Future

The title is self explanatory. He believes the mid-sized firms are going to be squeezed hard in the future, especially in downturns like these. The big firms have been dipping down into markets they have never been in and the small firms are more agile and can adapt. Continue

Added by Steven Pantazis on September 25, 2009 at 4:08pm — No Comments

Fake Pecha Kucha Review

The post-lunch plenary was done in the format of Pecha Kucha, the global phenomenon, although it didn't seem to be officially sanctioned. The material, and conference room was dry making it a little difficult. Although maybe I'm just used to attending PK Night in a bar. Otherwise there was plenty of interesting information presented. Three presenters were live from the conference room and three were pre-recorded from the west coast. The… Continue

Added by Steven Pantazis on September 25, 2009 at 2:00pm — 1 Comment

Five Years of Award Winning BIM

I this morning opening plenary session was about of the AIA Technology in Architectural Practice (TAP) awards program that has been running since 2005. While Steve Hagan's and Calvin Kam's presentation on the history and current status of this awards program was very interesting and informative; for me the most interesting part of the presentation was David Scheer's talk about the Academic and Curriculum BIM awards. As a guy that's c… Continue

Added by Abraham N. Rodriguez on September 25, 2009 at 1:55pm — No Comments

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