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I am a major fan of the BE2Camp unconference theme, its just a very cool and simple way to meet and listern to very good presentations, the one I attended in Birmingham was just very good, I’m only sorry I did not get chance to travel to London to the recent event there, but this new Ecocamp looks to be just the ticket. I certainly have mine booked and will be there.

Be2camp member Carmen Boscolo is organising EcoCamp in Coventry, UK, on Saturday 12 December and its sustainability theme may well appeal to many Be2camp people, including some of those who attended Be2camp Brum in August. We are working in partnership with EcoCamp to promote the event, and you can register to attend at www.ecocamp.ning.com.

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I recently did a survey of an old pub, and saw this detail, although its a classic corbled detail, the brickwork under the old roof truss, is not really doing anything, it’s there for show, the beam if you look carefully, sits on the main exterior wall, which is actually new brickwork, if fact the complete barn is new, made to look old, more photos of the pub on my flickr account

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Source: Konstrukshon CPD Weblog – Architectural Technologist – Interesting brick corbled detail
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I seem to be finding a number of interesting site, that are not in English, and have found that Firefox has some interesting plugins to help translate these quite successfully, with little of no effort from me. Check out the video below

Source: Konstrukshon CPD Weblog – Architectural Technologist – Translate
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Thought you might like to see the recent Youtube blog I made looking over the last few days and a few of the many blogs I have made.

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Source: Konstrukshon CPD Weblog – Architectural Technologist – Youtube Konstrukshon CPD revue
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I attended the Brum Be2camp event, recently and deeply regret not being able to attend the London show 7-8 October 2009, but a lot of the daily presentations are online at the Be2camp web site Have a wonder about, the site, the actual videos are often quite dark or grainy, but there all free and well worth viewing.

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Source: Konstrukshon CPD Weblog – Architectural Technologist – Be2camp@WorkingBuildings2009
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Is this the way to spend a morning, did I get what I wanted from my visit to interbuild, not a chance, it was the most poorly set up and badly attended show I have ever been to, is it a result of the market place, or are manufacturers looking for alternative ways to spend their advertising money. A little of the alternatives and a huge pinch of the market conditions I think, but overall I thought it was a particularly huge waste of my time. Perhaps the only redeeming feature was the IT area, and the CU stand, were I managed to see the Vectorworks 2010 presentation from Tamsin Slatter.

Can I claim any CPD, well yes, but not a lot, I did see some products that might just qualify, such as a very poor stand on solar PV panels with a chap so board, no thinking on it, I will not claim any CPD from this trip.

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Source: Konstrukshon CPD Weblog – Architectural Technologist – Interbuild
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I know I have done the before, but one of the items I had to pass through to get to the Roman fort at Birdoswald was this fine example of a new kissing gate, in its basic form its a straight square kissing gate, but the designer has inserted a triangle line of timber to stop the sheep having any chance of escape.
More photos are now on the Scays Flickr account

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Source: Konstrukshon CPD Weblog – Architectural Technologist – Timber Kissing gate
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I have seen Jon Pickup use this several times since the release of Vectorworks 2010, and I think it’s realy useful trick to know, so I and very pleased that Jon has made another short video to show the offset tool working.

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Source: Konstrukshon CPD Weblog – Architectural Technologist – Vectorwork offset tool video from Archoncad
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I saw a twitter recently on the subjects of printing two Vectorworks sheet layers side by side, and thought I would do a short video to  show how I would do it. Why you might ask do it this way, well perhaps you want to give an exhibition of your work and show two or even three sheets on a continuous banner . My method is simple and it works, with the least amount of bother.

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Source: Konstrukshon CPD Weblog – Architectural Technologist – Vectorworks printing two sheet layers side by side
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I was particularly pleased today, to see that the AATO & CIAT have signed a memorandum of agreement to promote mutual recognition of qualifications and experience. This is one of the most important leaps our profession has made, and I hope we will see more such links in the future, to establish the practice of Architectural Technology around the globe.

A full article can be seen in this month AT magazine, As of this morning a PDF copy of the current issue is not yet on the CIAT web site, but past issues are available here.  Whilst your reading the issue, have a look at Keith Snook HonMCIAT RIBA director of Research and Technical excellent review of BIM igniting imagination creating success published by Autodesk,

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Source: Konstrukshon CPD Weblog – Architectural Technologist – AATO & CIAT sign Memorandum of agreement
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