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How to design for adaptive reuse: Don’t reinvent the wheel

BD+C

Before you bring in the demo crew, have a team of structural engineers help you find opportunities to save time, money and headaches. Your structural engineers may find that the existing bones present you with a lot of opportunities. Take a multidiscipline approach.

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don't think: Do Revit: Revit 2011: Stepped Foundations with.

Do

This quick demo illustrates some of the flexibility ACs actually offer, and the concept of thinking of the Conceptual Mass Environment as a wrapper for working with these elements. Would love to see what you came up with regarding stepped foundations since I'm a structural engineer. at 10:26 PM.

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