AECCafe Voice Archive for the ‘MEP’ CategoryKeith Bentley keynote at YII 2014: “Innovation happens in waves…”Tuesday, November 25th, 2014At Bentley’s Year in Infrastructure 2014 Conference in London in early November, Founder and CTO of Bentley Systems, Keith Bentley spoke on the topic of innovation.  “The ideas that start out to be the greatest start as small ideas.” – Keith Bentley, Founder and CTO, Bentley Systems Autodesk’s Revit R2 and Site Designer Extension releasedTuesday, September 23rd, 2014Autodesk’s Anthony Hauck, senior product line manager, joined me on a call this week to discuss the new Autodesk Revit 2015 R2 release. The Revit R2 release is available now to Maintenance Subscription and Desktop Subscription customers only at this time.  Site Designer enables architects, designers and planners to shape the terrain for building sites and communicate design intent with civil engineers. AECCafe will be at the AIA Chicago National ConventionWednesday, June 11th, 2014AECCafe, in the form of Editor, Susan Smith, will be at the AIA National Convention in Chicago June 26-27th. What that means is that our focus remains on architecture, engineering and construction from a CAD and Building Information Modeling perspective. As I ready for this conference, I would like to hear from more CAD and BIM companies to have an awareness of your booth presence and events you might be hosting. The areas we cover are quite vast: building information modeling, visualization, CAD, 3D printing, document management, project management, laser scanning, conceptual design, integrated project delivery, and specifications. If you wish to set up a meeting during the convention, please contact me at susan.smith@ibsystems.com. Look forward to seeing many of you there! Thanks, Susan Autodesk 2015 AEC Design Suites releasedThursday, March 27th, 2014 Autodesk InfraWorks 2015 now offers a new, more intuitive user interface to help speed workflows. Image courtesy of Autodesk Top AEC Predictions for 2014 – AECCafe VoiceTuesday, January 7th, 2014Last year’s predictions for the year, Top AEC Predictions for 2013 – AECCafe Voice, were somewhat different from this year’s. Although those predictions are still useful to note this year, I am focusing on some product directions and initiatives since there is a continuing, pressing need to address critical infrastructure, fueled largely by climate change, greenhouse gas emissions, and failing infrastructure and economy. Products developed and industries becoming more collaborative all shape the predictions of the year 2014. Perot Museum of Nature and Science design mirrors Texas’ natural environmentTuesday, November 26th, 2013The Perot Museum of Nature and Science located in Dallas, Texas, won a Be Inspired “Special Recognition Award” in the category “Innovations in Comprehensive BIM” at the Year In Infrastructure 2013 (YII2013) event held in London in October. The building, designed by Morphosis Architects, is very striking in that it is embues the visitor with the feeling of the natural environment of Texas, with its earthy use of rocks, stone, concrete and sedimentation of the earth layering.
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