Archive for May, 2008

Two Steps Forward, No Going Back

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Four years ago, the architecture and planning firm Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas + Company created a strategic technology committee to see what leading firms were doing to improve project delivery. This was born from a high degree of frustration with the technology the firm had at that time, from CAD to communications, which seemed inefficient at a time when clients were demanding more in less time. In this Viewpoint article, Design Principal Stephen C. Wright, who chaired the firm’s strategic technology committee, reflects on the changes that have restored the firm’s operational excellence.

URL: http://www.aecbytes.com/viewpoint/2008/issue_38.html

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Revit Architecture 2009

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

This review explores the improvements in the latest release of Autodesk’s BIM application for architectural design, including the new mental ray rendering engine, expanded library of predefined materials, new navigation tools, color fills in sections, macros that users can write to access the Revit API, and many others.

URL: http://www.aecbytes.com/review/2008/RevitArch2009.html

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