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New Dynamo Features to Automate Connections Modeling

With Autodesk University 2019 unfolding last month, it’s a perfect time to introduce new functionalities in Dynamo that will empower structural engineers to bring automation into their steel connection workflows. With the Revit 2020.2 point release, new Dynamo nodes and sample scripts bridge the gap between structural analysis and modelling phases, enabling standardization and faster […]

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Managing Your Client’s Happiness

One of the keys to success for small firm architects is client satisfaction. Keep the client happy throughout the project and that happy client will lead you to more happy clients. Our clients don’t like surprises. They want to be fully informed and up-to-date throughout the process. Expectation Management is an important practice that must be included in the […]

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Lessons Learned from Apple

If you have not been to the new Apple store on Fifth Avenue, do it soon. In a city where everything is big and loud, the Apple store stands out by being small and quiet. It is simply genius.When you are there, take a good look at Apple as a business.The Apple brand is all about […]

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Las mujeres en arquitectura perciben ingresos inferiores y tienen menos contratos indefinidos – Parte 2 Encuesta CSCAE

Desde que comenzó el siglo XXI, la Arquitectura ha experimentado cambios y ha visto cómo se aceleraban otros, que ya estaban en marcha. Uno de ellos es la incorporación progresiva de mujeres al ejercicio profesional. Como muestran los resultados de la encuesta Colegiad@s 2018, desde el año 2000, el número de arquitectas graduadas supera al de […]

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La Arquitectura, una profesión golpeada por el hundimiento de la edificación

La encuesta Colegiad@s 2018 refleja una profesión profundamente vocacional que sigue atravesando una situación muy delicada, como consecuencia del hundimiento del sector de la edificación derivado de la crisis financiera. La mayor evidencia es el nivel de ingresos. Como disciplina indispensable para garantizar el bienestar de la ciudadanía y preservar el legado histórico y cultural […]

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Is Architecture Dying

Architecture is not a dying profession. With over half of the world’s population living in urban areas, there’s more demand for urban planners, landscape architects, and architects than ever. In that order. We need livable spaces. We need to create value instead of just ticking the boxes. As in ‘meets the basic criteria for human life to survive […]

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Interpret Your Client’s Real Needs with 3D BIM Modeling

The model-based approach of 3D BIM modeling services helps increase efficiency by streamlining architectural, construction, and engineering workflows. Now that more and more organizations are moving from 2D drawings towards more realistic and easily readable 3D models, there is a huge demand for BIM companies in India that can help them with coordinated project delivery. BIM or Building Information […]

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Integrating various aspects of BIM within Scoper

Typical AEC projects consist of multiple phases. Stressful situations may arise while the project is in development. There may be an addition of stages to pursue clarity in such cases. Project scopes are set up to inform collaborators about who is dealing with which aspect of the development. How would stakeholders create a reference point […]

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How To Turn Prospects into Projects

How do we small firm architects get more work? **SPOILER: Smile more** Even as the economy improves and our chosen markets wake from their slumber, it is still tough to turn prospects into projects. How do we fill our boards with more work? It is an often repeated rule that people buy from those whom […]

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How To Start an Architecture Firm Without a Portfolio

Anyone who has started their own architecture firm from scratch knows this dilemma well. We are full of enthusiasm, full of ideas, fully prepared. We quit our job (or working throughout the night on the side). We planned our launch and created a new website to share our ideas with the world… but we have […]