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In this article, Chris France, CIO of Little Diversified Architectural Consulting, a 225 person firm located in Charlotte NC, describes how they built a private cloud that included their high performance graphics workstations. A private cloud differs from the public cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services or Google by the fact that the cloud computing infrastructure and resources are controlled by the individual business that deploys it. Little’s cloud is the first AEC workstation cloud in production and is on track to reduce the firm’s workstation and laptop hardware expense by 67% ($2M) over the next 10 years. The article also describes many of the additional business benefits the firm has achieved through its workstation cloud approach and shares some of its implementation details.
URL: http://www.aecbytes.com/feature/2010/BIM_Cloud.html
This article discusses and analyzes the information presented at the AEC industry keynote at Autodesk University 2009, which highlighted the growing trend towards renovation in addition to sustainability by showcasing two GSA projects: the National Building Museum in Washington DC, and the Tuttle Courthouse Annex in Atlanta. It also provides an overview of the research-focused Design Computation Symposium that was held a day prior to Autodesk University.
URL: http://www.aecbytes.com/newsletter/2009/issue_43.html
This article captures the highlights and analysis of the general session keynote that was held on the opening day of Autodesk University 2009, which included presentations by Autodesk CEO Carl Bass, CTO Jeff Kowalski, and guest speakers Jon Landau from Lightstorm Entertainment and Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute.
URL: http://www.aecbytes.com/newsletter/2009/issue_42.html
This article discusses the key business and product-related updates from the executive presentations at Bentley’s recent “Be Inspired” event that was held in Charlotte, North Carolina. It includes a discussion of Bentley’s new “i-model” concept intended to facilitate dynamic collaboration.
URL: http://www.aecbytes.com/newsletter/2009/issue_41.html
This article describes the BIM implementation at a London-based firm, MAAP Architects, that specializes in healthcare design. Authored by the BIM/CAD Manager of MAAP, it provides an insight into BIM as seen and adopted by an average, middle-size firm in the UK and can thus be seen as a good reflection of the state of the art of BIM in that country.
URL: http://www.aecbytes.com/feature/2009/MAAP_study.html
The area of sustainable design tools showed a lot of momentum at this year’s AIA Expo with the introduction of several new products. This article provides an overview of these tools, including Graphisoft’s new EcoDesigner, Autodesk Ecotect Analysis, IES’s VE-Gaia, Bentley’s Hevacomp and Tas applications, and a new tool called DesignBuilder, which uses the EnergyPlus simulation engine.
URL: http://www.aecbytes.com/feature/2009/AIA2009_EnergyApps.html
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