I worked at James A Roberts Rotunda in the early 70's I was there for about two years, so when I found this video, It was a must view
Tuesday, 15 December 2015
A site view not to miss, watch and learn
We take with us the gantt chart and look for items that should be completed and whats just started.
I wanted to add a time lapse video, but it just got messy, so the photo is all I can do, except it will be the same photo spot and on each Friday, so given enough photos I can make a nice time lape video.
There is so much to be learned by just sitting and watching, shadow, rain its worth the time to observe, and see how it interacts with your details.
I like to touch and feel, old details, even on the surface there is still things to learn, drip details, overhangs, change of material, and in an old city ike Birmingham, there are detail example that have been working well for over 100 years.
So often details are the result of committees, groups of well meaning people who look after buildings and add things without realising the effects, adding pipes, drainage, ramps, thinking the builder will sort it out, so often not,,,,,,,
Monday, 14 December 2015
CPD records
Its an important job, you do need to keep a track of what, when and why, and where you got the information, I tend to store so much of what I read in Evernote, its just so easy to click the elephant and store a web page, or use my iPhone to scan in a page or article.
I wrote a detailed article on the spreadsheet make up some time back, take a look at my personal page for details, and also you can see the sheet with up to date hours as I type.
I have several projects on the go, and my paper to finish, so lots to go at
So Christmas is creeping up, and I still have loads to do, most of my presents are done, first time ever, normally I am rushing about, but this year for some reason its all done, thanks to Amazon I must state. Todays photo a small sketch I made to show brick coursing to my students, which reminds me I need to book the next CPD event, Ibstock have agreed to come and talk.
Saturday, 12 December 2015
Vectorworks Marrionette
I am now in the final stages of my paper for ICAT and make mention of this fact, but the real power I don't think we have seen yet, and it will take a lot of experiment and trials to see how far we can take Marionette.
In the mean time tale a look at Jons post, and see his notes and I hope, the excellent GIF that steps through the problem. As always Jon is at the fore front of presentation and media use, I remember way back before Skype was mainstream Jon and I were constantly playing with the technology.
The use of GIF is not new, but it fits here so well
Thursday, 10 December 2015
PAS 1192-2 --- Specification for information management for the capital/delivery phase of construction projects using building information modelling
OK its a long document, and the content is very much gov speak, but the underlying tone is the foundation of BIM, and like it or not, its the future, and here I speak global, not just the UK, there will be no country constraints, building are going digital.
You might also want to read an excellent article on the CIOB web site, and cedrtainly watch the youtube interview with BIM Task Group chairman Mark Bew. The page itself might be behind a fire wall, but the interview is on youtube, see below.
I would also recommend downloading PAS 1192-2 its free and can be obtained via the BSI shop for free, mine is in Evernote and well read. The reading list once you have just made the first read is enormous, and mine needed refining a tad, I am lucky, being a Visiting Prof at Birmingham City Uni, I get to use the excellent library, and have access to gov docs for free. plus I can sit an talk with other Prof's who teach this subject. I am planning a CPD event in the near future, where I will try and explain the documents and some of my research, with if they will agree, some of the lecturers.
Birmingham City Uni have an excellent Masters course being planned for the new year 2016, and you can bet its going to take apart a lot of the PAS 1192 doc and more. As soon as I can I will post more on this.
The image I have used today is the one you will see on almost every BIM presentation and shows the BIM maturity levels you will here so much about. The goal of 2016 is level 2, but this is only part of a much larger graphic showing the different standards related to each level, so a much needed document and read.
The video for some reason is in 6 parts, but watch the first and look to the side bar in Youtube for the remaining.
Monday, 7 December 2015
Mind Maps
Tere are no rules to taking note, much lime my rule for Moleskins, I just make notes, scribles, links, pictures, sketch, all the time. I can look back and see thoughts long forgotten, if I write neat, then Evernote can find it, but sketches and doodles are still a little much for it, but hey, there is time.
I read several article over the weekend, and found a link to an excellent article on mind maps, How to use mind maps and a follow up, Mind map art, mine look nothing like theres, !! also an excellent article on "The Nw Yorker"
I still keep looking at Google Keep, but its so lacks behind Evernote,
Wednesday, 2 December 2015
Big Data
practices hold vast amounts of data, so often stored away in a variety of formats, from defunct documents like wordstar, remember that, scanned drawings, the current collection of CAD file formats, IFC, and spreadsheets in the millions..
The trick will be to pull this information into a single cohesive viewable format, so welcome to big data, and the incomprehesable world of fragmented data.
I was always taught, keep data simple and regulated, but data is so often not cooperating in this, its all over the place and in so many different formats, and its often corrupted in some form or other.
So how do we get all this information to talk, thats the quest I am now on, its a long term project, but all linked to my CAD, BIM, internet of things paper, the more I look the more it expands to new areas. Googles Hadoop is an open-source software framework for storing data and running applications on clusters of commodity hardware. It provides massive storage for any kind of data, enormous processing power and the ability to handle virtually limitless concurrent tasks or jobs.
In short its the backbone of the new data
So I have or am, pulling together a presentation on the way ahead for Architectural Data, its not BIM, its not CAD, it has to be more, and so much lies outside your company or even personal data hives, on the open web, waiting to be linked and searched.
Should you learn more about this, yes, should you hand out this and all your data to an external company to make sense of it all, maybe, perhaps not, but one thing is sure, putting your head into the sand and hoping it will pass you by and everything will return to as it was, is not an option.
If your interested in attending a lecture on this subject, contact me and I will add you to my mailing letter list and let you know when and were. or if you want an in house lecture specific to your
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