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Behind the Build: Interview with Mostafa Saber, BIM & Design Manager at Diamond Developers

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Within five years, I exclusively used Autodesk’s Revit to deliver all my architectural designs. I learned a great deal about the whole BIM process there. I would say that working on a sustainability-focused project, from an architectural point of view, is not very different from working on a normal construction project.

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Industrialized Construction Bridges the Gap Between Traditional and Future Building – Q&A with Salla Eckhardt

Autodesk Construction Cloud

As SVP of Commercial Markets, Salla uses her expertise to advance the use of technology in the commercial sector to transform the built environment.  Originally from Finland, Salla holds a master’s in architecture and structural engineering. When dealing with pre-existing infrastructure –  renovations, retrofitting, etc.

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Industrialized Construction Bridges the Gap Between Traditional and Future Building – Q&A with Salla Eckardt

Autodesk Construction Cloud

As SVP of Commercial Markets, Salla uses her expertise to advance the use of technology in the commercial sector to transform the built environment.  Originally from Finland, Salla holds a master’s in architecture and structural engineering. When dealing with pre-existing infrastructure –  renovations, retrofitting, etc.

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EdiLus-RC – A powerful software for concrete design & reinforced concrete structural calculation

Construction Cost Estimating

EdiLus-RC is an exclusive software for making perfect concrete design that deals with structural calculations toward new and subsisting buildings in reinforced concrete by means of the most simple and effective SMART BIM object input. The first structural calculations BIM software for reinforced concrete buildings.

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When is a discrepancy not really a discrepancy?

DebunkTheBIM

The structural engineer sizes the concrete column; the architect places it in the space. There is a code on the structural drawing that can be tracked to the schedule and the dimensions are noted. The architectural plan neatly sets out the column’s centre point from two nearby, perpendicular grids.

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The Great Carbon Reckoning

Natural Building

She called up her structural engineer on an educational-building project and asked if they could swap out some of the cement in their mix for fly ash. Our number one job to get that first carbon dip is to deal with existing buildings.”. He was game to try it in the foundation. Now, that is scale.’”.

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Revit 2016 R2 - Positioning by Auto - Project Base Point to Project Base Point

Revit OpEd

Let's imagine a scenario where our structural engineer decides to mock-up a preliminary model but does so without the benefit of having the architectural model linked in yet. Only move the PBP un-clipped if you will rely on Shared Coordinates to deal with external model alignment in other applications.

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