Tag: Design
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Building Optimization with TestFit’s New Generative Design
In the 1980s, I was a young architect assigned to a laboratory project with a more senior professional. At the outset, the client wanted us to present alternatives. We developed three solutions. If TestFit’s new generative design tool had been available back then, the number would have been around twenty-five thousand. Why did we settle…
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Aecmaster’s Digital Twin: A New Era for Building Design
I sat down with Anssi Auvinen, the CEO and founder of Finnish startup Aecmaster, to discuss the future of design and how the company plans to make it happen. Anssi envisions data-driven design as the next radical change in the AEC sector. Anssi Auvinen Anssi Auvinen started working in the building industry as a 16-year-old…
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4D BIM for Design – An Interview with Jouni Ojala of Granlund
4D BIM has garnered significant attention in recent years. It is a method that adds a time and resource dimension to building information models. I sat down with Jouni Ojala, a Granlund expert in the field, to discuss the transformative impact of 4D BIM and how it can be applied in design scheduling. In my…
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5 New Church Design Trends
Times are changing rapidly, and the way Americans engage with religious institutions reflects that. To meet these changing times, churches need to balance the traditions that define them with trends that keep them relevant. Construction projects bring these competing ideals to a head, but you don’t have to navigate these challenges alone. Horst is here…
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5 New Church Design Trends to Enhance Your Mission
Times are changing rapidly, and the way Americans engage with religious institutions reflects that. To meet these changing times, churches need to balance the traditions that define them with trends that keep them relevant. Construction projects bring these competing ideals to a head, but you don’t have to navigate these challenges alone. Horst is here…
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Autodesk Informed Design Connects Design and Make Workflows
Autodesk, Inc. has introduced Autodesk Informed Design, a new cloud-based solution designed to integrate design and manufacturing workflows with the aim of improving efficiency in the building design and construction process. The tool allows architects to utilize customizable, predefined building products that ensure valid outcomes and enables manufacturers to make their products accessible to design…
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Designing the Process to Deliver Zero-Carbon Construction – Computational Design in Practice
Computational Design is generating increasing interest in the construction industry as well as a certain amount of confusion. It is not parametric design; instead it takes parametric design to the next level. It is a set of methods that will define how we design structures over the next decades. With Computational Design, you don’t design…
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Beyond Automation – Change How You Think With Computational Design
Through the ever-increasing speed and capacity of computers, computation enables dealing with tasks that were traditionally either too time-consuming or too challenging to be accomplished sustainably by humans alone. However, computation is not just about automating traditional processes or tedious activities; it’s about shifting the way we think and design. To learn more about computational…
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Project Frog Launches KitConnect, a Design Management System for AEC
Project Frog, the pioneer of industrialized construction, announces the launch of KitConnect. KitConnect is a SaaS Design Management Solution (DMS) for the AECO industry that enables building productization workflows in BIM. KitConnect offers a framework for repeatability, consistency, and scalability of building designs. KitConnect was born out of innovation from Project Frog, an Industrialized Construction pioneer…
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Henderson Engineers Tests AI for Building Systems Design with Torch.AI
Torch.AI is testing a new artificial intelligence application with Henderson Engineers, a national building systems design firm, to unlock the creative and problem solving potential of the firm’s more than 1,000 employees. Henderson Engineers is a building systems design and engineering firm that works on projects across the business, community, health, retail, and venue sectors.…