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Dear Reader,
We head into 2011 with very exciting news on the horizon for both our industry and for GRAPHISOFT. There is a revolution presently underway in the IT industry: the emergence of mobile technologies hooked up to the Internet through cloud services is changing how we communicate and ultimately how we do business. Information ― and the access to it ― has become a commodity, and users are demanding 24/7 access - even in the AEC industry. Technology experiments are already underway for BIM data as well; what is not yet 100% clear is the optimal level of authoring highly sophisticated data such as BIM models from mobile devices and/or in the clouds. The GRAPHISOFT BIM Server was the very first "cloud–enabled" BIM solution for live access to BIM projects through standard Internet connections. Check out our recorded Webinar explaining how this technology can be used in both large and small practices, enhanced with OPEN design collaboration workflows to the engineering disciplines. Tune in for ongoing innovations from GRAPHISOFT in the mobile/cloud domain in 2011. We hope you enjoy reading about other news and information from GRAPHISOFT's global community. Please don't hesitate to share your opinion with us about what you have read here or what you would like to see covered in future issues.
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The GRAPHISOFT Team
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Projects
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UK's first Certified Passivhaus educational building
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The Rural Regeneration Centre at Hadlow College in Kent is a showcase of low carbon and renewable technology. One of the top three agricultural colleges in the UK, it will use just 10% of the typical energy consumption of a modern building and is the first such building in the UK to be constructed using prefabricated materials. The building was designed and built by James Anwyl, founding partner at Eurobuild, using ArchiCAD.
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ArchiCAD-designed winery is an ArchDaily 2010 Building of the Year award winner
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The design by Atelier Peter Kis of the Laposa Winery in Badacsonytomaj, Hungary, has won the ArchDaily 2010 Building of the Year award in the Industrial Category. The market entry and dynamic growth of the Laposa Winery resulted in the necessary expansion of both the wine-making and visitor areas. In addition to increasing the size of the winery, the challenge on both the architectural and viticultural levels was to modernize and at the same time maintain the production and presentation of the wine.
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Award-winning Koutsoftides Architects: a small firm making a big impact
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Koutsoftides Architects, a small, design-oriented firm, represents the majority of the ArchiCAD user base.
Its founder, Costas Koutsoftides's aim was to never grow big in size and profit, but to design what he likes and to do it in the highest quality possible. Awarded the meritable Republic of Cyprus Architectural Award, listed as one of the world's 101 upcoming practices in Wallpaper, and representing his country in the Barcelona and Venice biennales, proves that this approach is not only satisfying but also successful.
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Community
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ArchiCAD sweeps Build Live Tokyo 2010
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Team Safari Tour, led by Yasuo Ichii, and representing the giant general contractor firm Obayashi Corp., captured the Best Project Award at Build Live Tokyo using ArchiCAD. In addition to the Best Project Award, ArchiCAD users also won 2nd place, as well as the Incentive Award, Engineering Award, BIM Technology Award, EcoDesign Award, and Design Innovation Award
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Romanian Ice Skating Rink wins Fall 2010 ArchitectsJURY Competition
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The pirouette, ice skating's most iconic movement, served as the inspiration for the winning design in the Fall 2010 ArchitectsJURY competition. Designed by Mihai Macavei, an architecture student at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca in Romania, the ice skating rink incorporates the pirouette into the dynamics of the building.
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In the Blogosphere
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One of the best ways to get practical insights on the use of software is by reading dedicated blogs run by users and independent experts. The number of blogs focused on ArchiCAD and BIM implementation is growing by leaps and bounds. The work of these dedicated bloggers is both motivational and educational. And the best thing is, that in addition to learning about ArchiCAD, you can also gain insights into design and documentation best practices as well, such as the example below about using Pens & Pensets.
About Pen Sets on the Shoegnome blog
A collection of BIM and ArchiCAD blogs |
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Tricks & Tips
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Walls with Multiple Finishing Materials
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ArchiCAD's Complex Profile feature holds great design potential and can be utilized in numerous creative ways to ease modeling and keep BIM models neat and clean. Check out this easy, five-step graphical TechTip to create your own custom Profiled Walls with multiple finishing materials.
These easy- to- use tips are regularly shared and collected on the ArchiCAD Facebook page. Check the link below for more:
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User Tip - Concrete Slab on Metal Deck
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Concrete Slabs on Steel Decks are commonly used in today's architectural structures. It is very simple to create them in ArchiCAD's BIM environment, using such features as Complex Profiles, Composite Structures and Solid Element Operations.
The origin of this tip is a blog post by Pablo Montes on his great blog, Arquitecturama.MX.
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How to model different types of Flat Top Roofs
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This ArchiCADWiki article describes various methods how to create structurally correct sloping complex 'Slabs' in ArchiCAD, using the Mesh and Slab Tools and ArchiCAD's Solid Elements Operations feature. These structures are frequently used from residential architecture to big-scale commercial projects.
See the Tip on ArchiCADWiki |
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Events
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GRAPHISOFT Webinar Series – "Green" BIM Webinar is Coming!
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Architects know that sustainability is the most important trend in architecture and construction today. Discover how GRAPHISOFT's award-winning EcoDesigner can help your design decisions by providing precise forecasts about the annual total and specific energy consumption, monthly energy balance, and carbon footprint of your project.
The "Green" BIM – Low Energy Building Design for New Projects and Retrofits" Webinar on March 1 is the 5th in our successful webinar series, which began last October.
Check for local events on the Events page of GRAPHISOFT.com |
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