Wednesday, May 7, 2014

BIM Perspectives - NY May 29th

Join me in NY at the BIM Perspectives event, where I and a number of Industry professionals will be speaking on BIM in the Practice of Architecture and Engineering:


Building Information Modeling (BIM) Perspectives is a series of events that we hold in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. In this event, you will hear from various members of multi-disciplinary project teams about their best practices for using BIM as a basis for a collaborative design and construction process. You will learn about the challenges and benefits of implementing BIM technology from the perspective of leading local and national AEC practitioners.
This year's theme for BIM Perspectives New York is "Collaboration," focusing on the entire project team. From the property owners and facilities professionals, to the architects, engineers, construction, and specialty contractors, we will investigate new ways to accelerate innovationon. We will examine how cloud based and mobile collaboration are empowering extended team members and enabling flexible and dynamic project workflow.

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When:
Thursday, May 29, 2014
8:00 am – 1:00 pm EST

Where:
McGraw Hill Auditorium
1221 Sixth Avenue
New York, NY 10020

Credit:
Microsol Resources is an Approved Provider through the AIA/CES and will provide a Certificate of Completion for 3.5 AIA LUs and PDH for this seminar.

Cost:
There is no cost but you need to register to participate

FEATURED PRESENTERS

Safiy Abdur-Rahman, Director, Integrated Building Solutions | BIM, NYC DDC
Ian Atkins, Associate Principal, Firmwide BIM Application Manager, KPF
Craig Barbieri, Design Technology Manager, Pennoni
Luciana Burdi, Deputy Director for Capital Programs, Massachusetts Port Authority
John Cannistraro, President, Cannistraro
Erik Churchill, Project Manager, SHoP Construction
Jon David, Regional Manager | Virtual Design and Construction, Turner Construction
Laura Handler, Director of Service Design & Strategy, Tocci Building Companies
Stephen Jones, Senior Director, McGraw Hill Construction
Jan Leenknegt, BIM Manager, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)
Robert Mencarini, Principal, Array Architects
Ken Murphy, BIM Director, Thornton Tomasetti
Joe Romano, Principal, Vice President, Langan
Shawnita Sterett, Director of Infrastructure, Autodesk
James Vandezande, Principal, HOK

They will be discussing the following topics and more:

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Microsol Resources has been delivering integrated solutions to the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industries for 25 years. It is a recognized leader in building information modeling (BIM) technology solutions, as well as an Autodesk Platinum Partner with offices in New York, NY and Philadelphia, PA, with a professional staff of BIM/CAD Applications Experts focused on supporting the AEC community.

Friday, January 31, 2014

Design Technology Summit (DTS)

You may know that I'm involved in the RTC DTS Organizing committee and I'm excited to say that the 2nd DTS is almost here. If you don't know about the DTS, info can be found here.


Reposted from the Design Technology Summit blog:

It’s less than a week away now, here’s a little update. If you are already registered to attend you should have received an email recently too. If you haven’t please let the Secretary know as soon as you can.
If you are still interested in attending registration is full, with 27 companies being represented. We may have an open slot however. Keep in mind that the focus is biased toward firms with 100+ staff and/or multiple sites. If you’d like to make it even though it is last minute please contact the RTC Secretary.
We’ll kick off the event on Wednesday evening with some networking. We’re going to be doing a little Design Technology speed dating, yes it will be as geeky as that sounds, but it should be a good ice-breaker to help get conversations going.
Thursday we will focus on establishing our small groups, something new that we will start this time around. Each small working group will address these topics: Innovation, Collaboration and Management.
The small group leaders will be:
  • Collaboration – Lee Miller – HOK
  • Innovation – Josh Emig – Perkins & Will
  • Management – Robert Yori – SOM
On Friday our small groups will report back to the full group on their topics. Going forward they’ll be focused on them for the next 6-9 months and they’ll set the expectation for what kind of deliverable the full group should expect to see at future sessions. Each group will prepare draft reports for their Bucket and make them available 1 month prior to the Summer DTS (June) meeting which is co-located with RTC NA in Schaumburg, IL (near Chicago).

We will also strive to solicit and include input from people that were not able to join us this time.
We’re very excited to have the HP/Nvidia team as a sponsor, for DTS as well as a Platinum Global Sponsor for RTC overall. A special treat, they’re taking us up to Fort Collins on Friday afternoon for a behind the scenes tour (NDA required) of the HP R&D Facility located there. This should be very interesting and I’m sure we are all looking forward to it.
In June we’ll get back together just before RTC begins. It will be an opportunity for the full group to hear back from each of the small groups and then discuss each major topic in a large group format. Going forward we envision our Winter meetings as our Small Group meeting and then the Summer meetings being our Large Group meeting. We’re also hoping to find a way to present what DTS has been working on to RTC attendees during each RTC event.

We expect that the Summer meeting will be either 2 or perhaps just 1-1/2 days. We’re still working on scheduling it around some of the RTC related activities currently being planned for the Wednesday prior to the official conference start on Thursday. RTC is hoping to have something special sorted out and naturally we want DTS attendees to be able to take part too. More news on that when it becomes available.

RTC’s Design Technology Summit is proudly sponsored by our Platinum Global Sponsor -  HP|NVIDIA

HPNVIDIA
We are also very pleased that Global eTraining has joined RTCDTS as a Bronze Sponsor
Global eTraining