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New Year… New Job!

With the advent of the New Year, I am starting a new chapter in my career. After 7 great years at JRPArch, I am leaving to take a position with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP’s New York Office, as a Senior Digital Design Coordinator. It will be a fantastic opportunity to work on some of the most amazing architectural commissions in the world. As well as, a chance to help push Autodesk Revit (and BIM in general) to the bleeding edge.

I am a little nervous about the adjustments necessary to work in a such a large firm, but looking forward to the resources that such an environment affords. It will be exciting to work at a firm with such a pioneering technology pedigree. If you have a few minutes you can catch a glimpse of what Digital Design at SOM is all about by reading Paul Seletskys’s Digital Design in the Age of Building Simulation, an AECBytes Viewpoint article. Paul is the Director of Digital Design at the New York office, and recruited me for my new position.

Friday will be my last day at JRPArch. I will miss all of my co-workers, including my brother-in-law, Taylor and my sister-in-law, Lauren, and, of course, my boss (and father-in-law), Jack Parry. Jack has been an outstanding mentor to me throughout my career, and I can honestly say that I would not be where I am today without his guidance, support and friendship. To his credit, he took the news of my departure, very well. Though disappointed in my decision to leave the firm, he respected my wishes and was very proud of me at the same time.

My contact information will be updated as soon as I have it.

Wish me Luck,

Z

Revit Wiki Goes Live!

Beau Turner, of will render 4 food fame, with the help of Steve Stafford has setup a new revit wiki to join the existing ADT wiki at Triple D design. The revit history section is a great read! Be sure to sign up and contribute!

REVIT WIKI

RSS Feed Added

FYI I Just added and RSS feed, with feedburner.

New News is Good News

Continuing his 1-2-3 Revit article series at Cadalyst, Rick Rundell's latest installment deals with Revit structure and how it fits into the BIM concept. Great read, I highly recommend it.

While you are there, check out the latest AEC tech news installment from Arnie Williams. It is yet another article about the freedom tower and revit. I wonder if James V and the gang at SOM ever get tired of all the publicity? naahhh ;)


Bim away!

Revit Structure 1.0 Released Today!

The long awaited revit based structural design tool, Autodesk Revit Structure 1.0, is set to ship today. It seems that information on crossgrade promotions and pricing details have not yet been released. I will pass that info on as I receive it. Always on the ball, Augi has already added an entirely new forum category dedicated to the new product. Autodesk was also quick to add new discussion group, autodesk.revitstructure, has been added to discussion.autodesk.com.

Wes Macaulay, of Pacific Alliance Technologies, has started an informative thread with FAQ’s for ARS.

More news to follow...... this time I promise ;)

Revit Building 8 is HERE!

Autodesk Revit Building 8 is now officially here!!! The download version is now available!