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Frederick Rickmann
Frederick Rickmann is CE0 and co-founder of DNgroup and AFR. For many years Frederick has been a strategic mentor for companies within the Danish Industry. He is a professional judge in Design and IPR Cases, Danish High Court and City Magistrate Courts in Denmark. Architectural Paradox: the Gellerup Park in DenmarkDecember 22nd, 2014 by Frederick Rickmann
Article source: AFR ThinkingUrban Throughout Europe, the 60’s and the 70’s saw a rapid expansion of residential building. In Scandinavia as in most other countries, some of the best planning skills and architectural talent were geared to creating large areas of housing. The modern movement was in full cry and dwellings for all sections of society were erected. Now, only 40 years later, the towering ambitions of the architectural profession are being demolished.
Read the rest of Architectural Paradox: the Gellerup Park in Denmark 4D BIM Planning Process used at RNEST Refinery, BrazilSeptember 19th, 2014 by Gabriel Henrique Ferreira Gonçalves
Project Data – Implementation of Delayed Coke Units and Regenerative Caustic Treatment at Abreu e Lima Refinery in Ipojuca-PE / Brazil. Considered by Petrobras the most modern refinery built in national territory, with capacity to process 240 thousand oil barrels per day.
Photo 01: Aerial View of the Project Read the rest of 4D BIM Planning Process used at RNEST Refinery, Brazil Is PSA Software the Key to Solving AEC Firms’ Bottom-line Profitability?August 7th, 2014 by Mike Salem
AEC firms face constant challenges balancing budgets and getting projects completed on-time and on-budget. Precious time is often lost when project managers manually work on support functions and administrative tasks (i.e. assigning specific projects to different people, over/under budgeting, not logging in time efficiently, etc.), putting a wrench in workflow and profitability goals. Operating these tasks manually is costly, time-consuming and can be prone to errors. A recent survey on FoxBusiness.com [1] revealed small business owners collectively waste four billion hours of company time annually by spending too much time on back-end support functions and administrative tasks. A manual approach keeps AEC owners and management from focusing on what’s important – their core business processes. Read the rest of Is PSA Software the Key to Solving AEC Firms’ Bottom-line Profitability? A Conversation with Keith Bentley: The Evolving Form Factors of ComputingAugust 6th, 2014 by Keith Bentley
CTO Keith Bentley walks through the evolving form factors of computing that led to his co-founding of Bentley Systems, helped shape the company’s development work the past 30 years, and will continue to have an impact on its strategies going forward. Read the rest of A Conversation with Keith Bentley: The Evolving Form Factors of Computing Advancing BIM Toward “Level 3”: Compounding BenefitsAugust 4th, 2014 by Greg Bentley
Among the multitude of viewpoints regarding a “new level” of BIM aspirations, I would like to offer Bentley Systems’ perspective, as a leading software provider dedicated to “sustaining infrastructure,” on how and why the advantages at each BIM advancement can accumulate exponentially. Read the rest of Advancing BIM Toward “Level 3”: Compounding Benefits Urban Campus Concept Leads to Better Work Life BalanceAugust 4th, 2014 by Lori Dowd
The modern workforce has shifted its focus to better work life balance. As a result, businesses are looking to developers to innovate the physical work environment.
In a series of interviews with StoryTrack’s video production team, Clark Machemer, Vice President of The Rockefeller Group, explains how the urban campus is allowing companies to attract and retain top talent, by catering to their professional and personal priorities. And will also allow companies to continue their growth trajectory for the future. Lori Dowd: What is the driving force behind the innovations in design and engineering for corporate America. Read the rest of Urban Campus Concept Leads to Better Work Life Balance Building Information Modeling Q+AJuly 12th, 2014 by Andy Smith
BIM is most recognizable as a product and collaborative process. As a product, BIM becomes a Building Information Model – a digital representation of physical and functional characteristics of a facility. As such it serves as a shared knowledge resource for information about a facility, forming a reliable basis for decisions during the facility’s lifecycle from inception onward[1]. A Building Information Model includes 2D and 3D computer graphics enriched with non-graphic attribute information describing the components of the design. It may be requested as a project contract deliverable, provided during facility handover, and used for operations. As a collaborative process, BIM becomes Building Information Modeling – a process by which a group of designers, contractors, material suppliers, and facility owners work together, sharing information about the project. Advanced BIM offerings provide a collaborative process featuring an increased depth of information modeling – beyond design visualization to performance simulation, optioneering, and operational immersion – and increased breadth of information mobility, facilitating collaboration among multiple project disciplines from design through construction and operations. AECCafe Call for Bloggers – Extend Your Reach and Exposure!March 21st, 2014 by Sanjay Gangal
Do you have something to share with the AEC community, such as opinions, thought-provoking topics, or commentary? AECCafe.com, the leading architecure, engineering, and construction portal is seeking the following types of blogging contributor categories:
AECCafe has 75,000 unique visitors per month; as well as 16,000 subscribers to our daily newsletter and AEC Weekly. Translation: People like to spend time at AECCafe. Read the rest of AECCafe Call for Bloggers – Extend Your Reach and Exposure! Q+A LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT CHIP CRAWFORDMarch 12th, 2014 by Lori Dowd
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