Energy Star tax creditsSimple is as simple does. It works. Its easier to understand. Easier to fix. The real world does not reward complexity.
An important aspect of good design is simplicity. HVAC can be complicated enough, given the need to maintain various spaces at set [...]
Delayed commentary on things learned and shared at a recent RevitDC meeting:
NAMING THINGS and SHARING (it’s a matter of INTEGRITY)
Naming comes up again. “Inconsistent” is the keyword. I am glad that I am not the only one who struggles with it. Shakespeare wrote “What’s in a name? That which we [...]
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Factoid heard at the recent Eco-Build conference in D.C.: “The number of contractors adopting Building Information Modeling has quadrupled in the past year. ” Coming from a very small core of early and aggressive users to a large cross section.
Another trend is that BIM is being used on larger projects by [...]
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An important point, when planning a project, is that the skillsets of the users may be the real driver of success. Software skills by the senior experts helps too. Understanding the database may be as important as understanding the data. Its a bit of a hurdle that [...]
Change is in the wind. Software and information technology forces a break with the past.
For generations, we engineers depended on drawings. The desktop PC, and software, such as Autocad, changed our dependence into a 2-d CAD.
Stephen Roth wrote in the recent issue of Consulting Specifying Engineers magazine.
HVAC [...]
Concerns brought up by Howard McKew of Engineered Systems magazine in the July 2009 issue. He said “Owners, Please Demand More from your IPD team” (Integrated Project Delivery ) McKew cites the fact that the new IPD approach being promoted by the AIA is possibly a lawyers dream to make money in [...]
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The April issue of Building Design and Construction magazine has a pretty interesting article entitled,
BIM + IPD: Three Success Stories, by Jeff Yoders. He writes on some recent projects done using the Integrated Project Delivery approach that uses the Building Information Modeling– leveraging the synched database model inside
Autodesk’s REVIT and REVIT MEP software–
This work [...]
I design HVAC most of the time, but for the plumbing designer entry in BIM {{wiki}}, I would like to offer these
Advantages of BIM for the plumbing engineer :
Fixture schedules can be synchronized or linked to the architects schedule with a mere key stroke.
Fixture schedules , plans, riser [...]
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“What is in a name? That which we call a rose
by any other word would smell as sweet.”
Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Its not so easy to say overlook this anymore. In an information rich business environment, names are powerful. Naming is important because it enables easy retrieval, as well as recognition by us [...]
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“In a perfect world, energy simulations and design tools would be so well integrated that each time an architect moved a wall, added a window, or changed a lighting specification; the building’s predicted energy performance would be updated and displayed instantly. With that sort of real-time feedback, designers would quickly become skilled at optimizing [...]
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