All Things BIM / DC

$$$ On Site Interview with some USA Steel Reinforcement Experts in Sept. 2008 This came from the BIM snd Beam blog by Nicholas Manqon and Wai Chu. Very intersting opportunity for a few select individuals. Hi All, Our structural products team is currently searching for some USA steel reinforcement subject matter experts so that we can do some on site research and interview (3 full days on site interview + 1 day follow-up by phone/email) with them in September 2008 timeframe. Very important: The ideal candidate should be familiar with other software programs for reinforcement detailing in USA and should have lot of experience in detailing and Reinforced Concrete design, rebar modeling, shop drawing and fabrication drawing generation. Our team has some budget to pay the candidate for the time he will spend with us for this research and interview. If interested, please contact wai.chu@autodesk.com and dariusz.kwolek@autodesk.com Thank you Wai Chu + Dariusz Kwolek

Phil Read, Vice President and Director of Technology at HNTB Architecture discusses this years Building Design PowerTrack, the advantages of BIM, and how Autodesk software helps him to innovate. You can listen to this audio recording at the Autodesk University Blog (BLAUG)

As many of you are probably aware, IES makes a number of products to perform building analysis. IES has now created a plug-in for SketchUp that allows you to perform energy analysis at a very early stage. I haven't used or seen the product used in practice, but I believe it has a great deal of potential. For more information, I have provided a link to the CADALYST magazine article.

While it is listed as a tutorial (I disagree), the article provides an overview of the Revit and Green Building Studio. The article can be found at CADALYST where I am a contributing editor.

I have received some emails about Revit Architecture classes at Johnson County Community College . To my knowledge they are not having a class this semester but are planning for a Revit Architecture 2008 Essentials (I know, please don't get me started) class next semester. I am not sure if they will be teaching an Advanced Revit Architectufre or Revit Structure or Revit MEP classes. I have asked them to teach the current release, but their industry advisers don't believe that it is necessary to do so. If you would like more information about BIM classes at Johnson County Community College, I recommend contacting Tom Hughes at thughes at jccc dot edu (Email address has been formated this way to reduce spam).

I have been neglecting updating the blog, but I will do my best to do moe regular updates. That is if Phil will allow me to have a life outside of HNTB.

HOK Sport Venue Event is separating from its St. Louis-based parent company, HOK Group, and will become a separate company headquartered in Kansas City. Full Story