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CAD Shack: AUGI World May Issue is out

CAD Shack

Revit Architecture: Mimic a Master Builder: A Tribute to Felix Candela’s Work – Alfred Medina pays tribute to architect Felix Candela, who was known as a master builder of thin shell structures. CAD Employee Hiring 101 – The fundamentals of hiring CAD employees are often overlooked. CAD Shack VIPs.

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Level Up Design and Coordination Workflows with Accessible Reality CaptureĀ 

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Picture this: your construction firm is looking to bid on a project to renovate an old factory into a new office building. For starters, you’re dealing with an old structure without CAD files and limited documentation. It’s an exciting project, but it also comes with a host of challenges.

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How Darlene Rutkowski-Hanks pulls it all together

The Korte Company

So after high school, she studied architecture at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. To supplement their income, she also worked full-time as a CAD designer for Koch & Associates. . Louis Post-Dispatch and spotted a job opening for a CAD technician with 3-5 years of experience at a Metro-East architectural firm.

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Behind the Build: Interview with Christian Waldo, VDC Manager at Lydig Construction

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Then we have a large focus and a special relationship with historical renovation and restorations, especially on the Seattle side, as we start running out of space to build new projects. I went to school for architecture and then flipped it to architectural engineering. And I was basically doing AutoCAD work for them.

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The ā€œIā€ in BIM, OMNICLASS, and the Criticality of Getting it RIGHTā€¦. Now!

Building Information Management

The good news is that it’s not “rocket science” The bad news is that is will REQUIRE SIGNIFICANT CULTURAL CHANGE with the Architectural, Engineering, Construction, Operations, and Owners sector. Faceted vs. Hierarchical Data Structures / Architectures. BIG DATA = BIM.

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How to plan your warehouse layout

The Korte Company

Owners have plenty of lenses through which they consider the cost of a new or expanded or renovated warehouse. Below are architectural site plans for buildings at Americaā€™s Central Port that account for roadway connections and existing utility services. The bottom line usually speaks the loudest, and the only word it knows is tradeoff.

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BIM Strategy- Why Everything, or Nothing Ever, Changes!

Building Information Management

” While BIM can be applied to any situation, the focus of this discussion is upon ā€“ multi-facility portfolios, with extensive capital reinvestment, renovation, repair, maintenance, and sustainability requirements/projects. BIM’s SLOW START. WHO IS INVOLVED?

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