I lead our firm's Tech Studio and have been to several Facades+ conferences so here are my 2 cents.
The main thing I like about the Facades+ conference is what I learn about that are things I don't know about. What I mean are totally new concepts / ideas / tools. Not just exploring ideas that are already covered by the market / articles.
From the most recent conference, the thing that was the most exciting / interesting were the tools that are being developed to link data between software / tools. Examples would be the Thornton Tomasetti Exchange (the TTX) and Flux (FLUX - Sustainable Architecture @Scale). Another example that is slightly different is this paper by Elliot Glassman that talks about using various tools to optimize shading.
Things that other people are interested in our firms Tech Studio are things like:
- Drones, and their uses for marketing photography/video and surveying (our firm is multi-disciplinary so we do things like bridge inspections).
- Real-time visualizations. There are TONS of tools out there that do this and new ones come out every month...so were are navigating what works best for us.
- Capturing / gathering data on a firm-wide scale. Whether from timesheets, or Revit or whatever to try to gain insights. Whether that is how sustainable we are or just other interesting things we might be able to glean from that info.
Hope this helps.
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Ryan Johnson AIA
Clark Nexsen, Inc.
Raleigh NC
Original Message:
Sent: 09-07-2016 23:32
From: Andrew Dwight
Subject: tech for AEC
I'd like to know more about virtual design and construction technology in relation to BIM.
Associating the VDC to robotics for construction prefabrication would be great as an addition.