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Architectural Technologist – Customize MediaWiki into Your Ultimate Collaborative Web Site

November 7, 2009 in CAD, Vectorworks

We all know what Wilki is, its that web site that I seem to refer to when looking for information about something, or some one. But behind it is a really powerful, free software package that can be used for storing information. The free MediaWiki software is best known for powering Wikipedia, but you don’t have to be writing an encyclopedia to put it to good use. Extend, skin, and customize MediaWiki to create any kind of easy-to-update, collaborative web site.

In this article Gina Trapani shows just how easy it is to get this up and running, and the simple means of editing the pages, Why show this on a CPD weblog, simple, I and fast coming to the conclusion that a lot of the information I produce, the details, the articles might just need a better storage than archiving on a WordPress blog, so I am looking at this, but it could so easily apply to your own information gathering, Worth a read and its one of those sit back and think about it problems I mentioned the other day.

Architectural Technologist – Permitted Development

November 7, 2009 in CAD, Vectorworks

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Whilst we were talking at the Local authority planning meet last night, one of the team mentioned the Planning Jungle site as a useful web site for permitted development notes. Its more than that, its a compendium of notes, case history and a really good presentation on what exactly Permitted Development is.

Source: Konstrukshon CPD Weblog – Architectural Technologist – Permitted Development
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Architectural Technologist – Be2camp@WorkingBuildings2009

October 22, 2009 in CAD, Vectorworks

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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.

Architectural Technologist – Prefab Solar-EV Charging Station Sprouts in Silicon Valley

October 16, 2009 in CAD, Vectorworks

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I found this article on Wired mag web site and loved it, its the very essence I am looking for, a country thats blessed with almost constant sun coverage, using PV to its best. Basicaly its a pre-engineered solar panel installed on the streets of San Jose, California, ready to charge any EV with instant, sustainable power.

The installation marks the first time SunPods’ SP-300 EV Plug-N-Go portable charging station for solar-electric cars has been put to a real-world test. Aside from needing an electrician to make the electrical connections, the technology is literally plug-and-play. After it’s delivered from the factory to the site, it can be set up with no assembly required — perfect for the parking lot of a traveling Shepard Fairey exhibit.

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Architectural Technologist – UK’s New Wind-Powered Vehicle Breaks Previous Land Speed Record!

October 2, 2009 in CAD, Vectorworks

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You may wonder why mention this on an Architectural Technologists CPD web site, easy, is innovation, design, at its best, its all about looking at a problems from alternative angles and using new science, materials to achieve the almost impossible, oh and its British, sorry for mentioning it here when I aspire to a global audience, but it does fell kind of good.

So whats it al about, well it’s the breaking of the wind powered land speed record, and in a machine that may not be ready for mass production, but it certainly shows all the aspects of innovation that I look for and seek.

I got this from a twitterer emlink3 who pointed me to a site called stumbleupon.com now I get so many tweets it is hard to sieve out things that are interesting, particularly when they are not in my usual tagged search’s so its good I saw it. but go to the site and read the blurb, but more important watch the video, its all there. also go to the web page http://greenopolis.com/ theres more to see and read on green issues here, nice 1/2 green CPD

As for the phot, it all starts here,

Architectural Technologist – CIRIA – Sharing knowledge, building best practice

October 2, 2009 in CAD, Vectorworks

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I have known about CIRIA for years, yet I hardly access the site, perhaps thats because it was unhelpful or the logon was painful, I have received their paper communication also for ages, and apart from certain items it was uninspiring, yet something just made me look at this again this morning, and I had a pleasant shock, the site has become, well interesting, I received in the post the usual paper CIRIA magazine, and after thumbing through it, I thought, this is not half bad, and logged onto the site, now this is where I often give up on old log in, but the system found me and allowed me to entre, I’m more than impressed at this stage.

The site is quite easy to navigate, and there is an awful lot to look at, I went on to the Knowledge base, and the Construction and Technology base, its impressive, but here the pain starts, there is a ranking system employed were some information is paid for, some restricted to members, ie you have paid for a better class of membership. still its there and if your really interested, you’ll pay up.

Overall the site is worth a visit, there is an awful lot of information here, but the payment system means I could not access a lot. but I did manage to look at some things, like dry stone walls, not a huge leap in technology, but interesting !. I’m going to claim 1/2 hour of ok CPD

How to Analyze Slopes for LEED Certification in Neighborhood Development

September 30, 2009 in AutoCAD, CAD

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) is a certification program that promotes a green approach to community development. In fact, the US Green Building Council (USGBC) plans to designate LEED-ND as an American National Standard (ANSI). I first blogged about LEED-ND a few months ago where I demonstrated how to use buffer analysis to assess the density of an area based on the number of street intersections for LEED-ND certification. Recently, I posted a short video that introduced how to use geospatial analysis in LEED-ND certification efforts. Geoff Zeiss also blogged about LEED-ND and the progress being made towards finalizing LEED certification criteria.

This post looks at how to use geospatial tools to examine the suitability of a site in the Slope Protection category of the LEED-ND score card. The objective of this category is to minimize erosion of slopes to protect habitat and waterways by preserving steep slopes in their natural state. Specifically, one option to accumulate maximum LEED-ND accreditation points, requires that project sites avoid disturbing areas with slopes greater than 15%. A quick way to check whether a proposed site qualifies for maximum points in this category is to superimpose a 2D CAD drawing of the site and a 3D Digital Elevation Model (DEM) and then perform a simple thematic map on the DEM based on slope. Note that if you don’t have a DEM for your specific site, a quick web search reveals a number of sources for this type of data including the GIS Data Depot.

One of the key benefits of this approach is that candidate sites can be easily and quickly short-listed against specified criteria without huge expense. Another benefit is that better designs are possible because more candidate sites can be evaluated against LEED-ND criteria.

Check out the video to see the process in action using AutoCAD Map 3D.

Source: geoExpressions – How to Analyze Slopes for LEED Certification in Neighborhood Development
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Introduction to Revit Components

September 21, 2009 in AutoCAD, CAD, Revit

Nothing is hard about Revit components. At the first time, I didn’t intend to write about this and just let you explore about Revit components by yourself. But I feel this tutorial will be incomplete if we don’t discuss about Revit components.

Any objects than is not part of your building model is a component. It can be furniture, lights, plants, entourage, etc.

Component Tool

You can place any components by using component button in home tab.

But you may use site component or parking component in massing & site tab> model site. All of them will place the same component.

The differences are,

Using component button will enable you to place any components available in your Revit project file as generic components. While Site Component only allows you to place site components such as plants and parking component. When you have a lots of components, filtering your components will be helpful.
Placing your object as site component will automatically set your site topography as it’s host. We are going to discuss about site later.

Find and Load Families

Placing component should be very easy. Just activate the component tool, select what component you want in type selector, and click on your model to place it. Simple. You might want to load family if you need components that’s not available in your Revit project.

Revit has some default families come with the installation. You can also find a lot of Revit families on the internet. You can try search your component using Autodesk seek. And of course, you can create your own.

Placing Components

As I mention before, placing components is peace of cake. As easy as 1,2,3 : activate your tool, select your component, then place it! However, there are several things you should know.

Some of Revit families are hosted components. Lighting fixtures can be placed on ceiling or wall. Site components can be hosted to your site topography. But the others can be placed anywhere.

You can place furniture without finding it’s host. But you only can place wall based lights on walls. And you have to open your ceiling plan to place your ceiling based lights.

For your exercise, place furniture, lighting fixtures, and site components to your Revit model. Shouldn’t be hard

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Source: CAD Notes – Introduction to Revit Components
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Architectural Technologist – Gate Post capping

September 16, 2009 in CAD, Vectorworks

: Image by Scays via Flickr

I liked this little detail to the top of a gate post, its all in brick and there are about 8 different gates and most of them have this detail, I spoke to one of the old gardeners and to his knowledge there are no repairs to this since it was built nearly 200 years ago, can’t be bad, good quality mortar, and time taken to get it right, no rushing to beat the deadline, oh and the bricks were local to the site, clay dug from a local pit, mixed and fired on site.

Source: Konstrukshon CPD Weblog – Architectural Technologist – Gate Post capping
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