BD+C

MARCH 6, 2018

Modeling is often used to study the architecture of a building or a campus throughout the design of a project to help inform good decisions and elevate the level of design. When modeling is applied to engineering systems, the same benefits can be realized by both our project teams and clients.

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BD+C

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

How is artificial intelligence impacting data center design? 0 qpurcell Wed, 11/22/2023 - 17:00 Data Centers As AI is reshaping how we interact with machines and the world around us, the design of data centers needs to adapt to this fast-changing landscape. It then applies this knowledge to situations the model hasn’t seen before.

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HardHatChat

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Working with a client on a design-assist or design-build basis, as Englewood Construction is with the reimagining of Stratford Square Mall, allows the commercial contractor to provide valuable input during the initial planning stages. Design-assist is a bit of a hybrid of the design-build process.

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Pro Builder

JULY 14, 2021

The True Value of 3D Modeling for Home Builders. More than a marketing tool, 3D modeling can save time and money by providing greater accuracy. For an increasing number of them, this transition entails moving from two-dimensional (2D) drawings to three-dimensional (3D) digital modeling. The Path to 3D Modeling.

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Pro Builder

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

How to Maximize Your Model Home's Impact. Is it worth it to build and furnish a model home at this time? One design firm, Housing Design Matters, says yes. What matters the most right now, the company says, is to make the most out of your model home by photographing it effectively. cbroderick.

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Construction Dive

AUGUST 30, 2023

Hannu Lindberg, DPR’s leader of virtual design and construction, spoke about keeping teams on the same page and the future of workers on jobsites.

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Construction Specifier

MARCH 30, 2023

However, designing with masonry creates several challenges to overcome along the way. Due to the complexity of estimating and ordering, and the vast number of individual units required for projects, masonry can be challenging to model in existing software, extremely difficult and perhaps not entirely impossible.

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Lean Construction

MAY 27, 2020

Research on Target Value Design (TVD) has found that TVD projects are delivered 15% to 20% below market price. This post introduces a theoretical model to explain these results. Additionally, TVD projects are more likely to achieve predictable cost performance outcomes while carry less contingency than projects that do not use TVD.

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Revit OpEd

AUGUST 9, 2023

The Manage Cloud Models dialog that Revit displays is a terrible design. Utterly ineffectual. No search, no options for changing from icons to a list and it seems that it fails to list all of our projects at times. A very disappointing experience trying to use it.EVERY time. I have a sense of dread every time I think I need to open it.

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BD+C

AUGUST 10, 2023

The present and future of crisis mental health design 0 qpurcell Thu, 08/10/2023 - 10:07 Healthcare Facilities BWBR principal Melanie Baumhover sat down with the firm’s behavioral and mental health designers to talk about how intentional design can play a role in combatting the crisis.

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BD+C

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

8 strategies for multifamily passive house design projects 0 qpurcell Mon, 11/20/2023 - 12:22 Sustainability Stantec's Brett Lambert, Principal of Architecture and Passive House Certified Consultant, uses the Northland Newton Development project to guide designers with eight tips for designing multifamily passive house projects.

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Housing Design Massachusetts Certification 95

BD+C

APRIL 22, 2024

Achieving Safer School Design with Secure Entry Vestibules 1 kcichowicz Mon, 04/22/2024 - 10:47 Designers can plan secure entry vestibules with security-rated glazing to enhance the effectiveness of their safer school designs. What are secure entry vestibules and how do they support safer school design?

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BD+C

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Over the last several years, owners have begun to grasp that BIM can deliver more than just 3D models and better trade coordination. As a result, many organizations now require BIM data deliverables intended for downstream operations, and have developed transfer standards for embedding data in models during design.

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ENR Construction

DECEMBER 15, 2020

A team of New Zealand-based software designers that brought digital 3D modeling to engineering geotechnics less than two years has recently launched an upgrade to their software, which is now being used on some major projects, including the U.K.’s ’s multibillion dollar London-Birmingham high speed railroad (HS2).

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Software Software Modeling Railroad 59

Construction Business Owner

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In the construction industry, building information modeling (BIM) plays a central role in leveraging data from both building models and company processes to dramatically improve decision-making capabilities, establish more efficient workflows and reduce design and building errors and cost overruns.

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BD+C

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

One of the roadblocks to collaboration among AEC firms has been the clunkiness of trying to reconcile different modeling and simulation software plug-ins. Nvidia, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Welcome back to our blog series aimed at demystifying Autodesk technology for design and manufacturing. With Autodesk Construction Cloud's large model viewer, this seamless interaction is possible between Revit and Inventor, two vital components in the Autodesk suite. As an example, let us look at HVAC systems.

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Project stakeholders can now access critical model data with fewer steps; powerful new features provide greater control over cost and schedule management. The model is a great source of truth during design and planning, but data isn’t easily transferred to construction teams during the build phase of a project. New Orleans, LA.,

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

JANUARY 10, 2024

We sat down with Mostafa Saber , BIM & Design Manager at Diamond Developers as he walked us through his career journey, the challenges he faces while modernising and his vision for the future of construction. By 2007, I was introduced to BIM and started to prefer 3D modelling over 2D. Check out our conversation below!

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The Constructor

AUGUST 27, 2020

Besides, the inherent nature of designs, site, and construction processes makes. Construction projects have always been considered a risky venture.

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Construction Marketing

JUNE 16, 2021

Construction is one industry faced with many planning and designing before the actual structure is put in place. However, with advancements in technology, better designs with more details are being constructed to help guide the structure of a building. . This has made it essential in design and construction. .

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BD+C

MAY 12, 2021

Designing for resilience is equally important now that the earth’s temperature has started to rise, and abnormal climate events are becoming the norm. This post addresses how climate modeling can inform design strategies to respond to climate change, rather than design strategies to prevent climate change.

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Construction Business Owner

AUGUST 6, 2015

That's how long it has been since 3-D modeling began infiltrating the construction business. Building information modeling (BIM) has evolved from simply being a way for design architects to communicate their vision to clients to becoming a means to building better structures.

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Modeling BIM Industrial Design 120

Pro Builder

AUGUST 18, 2022

Louis Lawyers Created a Replicable Model for Neighborhood Renewal. Louis lawyers Donna and Howard Smith created an innovative model for neighborhood renewal using a federal tax credits program to finance for-sale affordable housing in the city’s Jeff-Vander-Lou area. Thu, 08/18/2022 - 10:32. Over a decade ago, St.

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Job Order Contracting

MAY 11, 2018

Do You Need to Share Project Information and BIM Models real-time? Whether you design, build, or maintain, or operate buildings, it’s time to react to under pressures of an increasingly digital and collaborative way of working. The post Share Project Information and BIM Models Real-time appeared first on 4BT. Watch the video.

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Modeling BIM Mobility Documentation 100

Autodesk Construction Cloud

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The model is one of the best sources of truth for viewing equipment and system components that need to be installed in a construction project. This is because asset information originates during the design phase, when the model is first created. . Introducing model-based workflows in the Assets tool .

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BD+C

APRIL 24, 2017

Energy modeling is at the forefront of sustainability and high performance building design. A critical tool in the design process, the information it provides has the potential to help designers transform energy performance – but the assumptions that are inherently part of the process can put accuracy at risk.

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Modeling Design Risk Sustainability 61

NH Construction Law

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Over the past decade, Building Information Modeling (“BIM”) – computerized 3D portrayal of integrated building elements that allows a project or project subset to be built virtually before being built in the field – has become prolific in commercial construction. This is not your father’s CAD system.

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Construction Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

To save yourself from the possible hassle, here are some tips that will help you choose the best construction design software for your project: 1. So, you’ll need to categorize yourself not merely according to whether it is a small or big construction design company but also according to your unique needs as a company. .

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Needless to say, trying to design, coordinate, and build in and around these conditions is an uphill battle. Thanks to lower hardware costs and direct connections between tools, the process of creating usable 3D models from photos or laser scans is easier than ever. A better design and coordination workflow .

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Construction Equipment

APRIL 20, 2021

Before a compact track loader design is finalized, some manufacturers use virtual renderings and 3D printed structures to get a “feel” for what visibility inside the cab might look like. ASV, for example, uses “model” operators to observe virtual renderings of its cab design before creating a…

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Architecture firm ODA has turned that development model on its head in its design for 100 Norfolk Street in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Depending on local zoning regulations, that restriction often results in a structure that steps back, floor by floor, as it rises.

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Modeling New York Design Zoning 95

ENR Construction

APRIL 13, 2022

guidance on tornado-resistant design into the model 2024 International Building Code passed the International Code Council’s structural committee by a vote of 14-0. A proposal to incorporate the first U.S.

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Modeling Design 69

Pro Builder

APRIL 21, 2021

A Model Home Packed With Pandemic-Influenced Features. An upcoming community will feature innovations and forward-thinking housing design born from pandemic lessons, from package delivery zones to enhanced outdoor living. Housing Design Matters takes readers through the community’s model home, touring each pandemic-influenced amenity.

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Modeling Housing Zoning Design 52

Autodesk Construction Cloud

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Close the data gap from AEC to operations The critical step for closing the AEC and operations data gap : involve facility managers in design and build data management processes as early as possible. While the formative stages of new projects bring together design and construction teams, facility managers often have more limited representation.

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The Household Model for assisted living facility design. Designing labs to address the coronavirus and future health events. . This week on The Weekly, BD+C editors spoke with leaders from CallisonRTKL, MBH Architects, and McMillan Pazdan Smith on three topics: . Breaking the rules of retail. •

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Construction Business Owner

AUGUST 23, 2013

August 23, 2013) - A nationwide group of Building Information Modeling users, known as the BIMForum, released the first-of-its kind standard establishing definitions for how complete Building Information Models (BIMs) need to be for different stages of the design and construction process. ARLINGTON, VA.

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