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CAD Academy Contest Tests Student Acumen with ArchiCAD
High school students from across the United States recently put their ArchiCAD knowledge to work as they competed in the first annual National LEED Dream Home contest, sponsored by Arizona based STEM curriculum developer, the CAD Academy. The CAD Academy®, is a secondary and post-secondary pre-engineering and pre-architectural program designed to inspire a new generation...
Filed Under: ArchiCAD 16 / ArchiCAD Education / Competition / Contests / Education / Energy Efficiency / Graphisoft / Green Projects / LEED / Net Zero / Residential / Sustainability
On the Fly Junctions, Funkified
Speakers up for this video! Set to a really cool music bed that will keep your Friday moving – the video highlights new functionality found in ArchiCAD 17. Working in this version of GRAPHISOFT BIM Software will have you take a new approach to modeling. No more stacking slabs instead of using composite structures –...
Meet Dowco Technology
Dowco Technology Services, Ltd., with offices in British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec is the newest, official GRAPHISOFT Value Added Reseller. Dowco is a Construction Technology company specializing facilitating software solutions for Contractors, Architects, Engineers, Project Managers, and more. The company offers ArchiCAD to its clients in recognition of the software’s ability to give design control while...
Filed Under: ArchiCAD 15 / ArchiCAD 16 / ArchiCAD 17 / ArchiCAD User / Construction / IFC Data Exchange
Announcing ArchiCAD 17 – BIM Lives in the Details
GRAPHISOFT announced the next version of ArchiCAD – a BIM software solution that makes it possible to pay attention to the smallest detail, bringing the model to life throughout every phase of design. GRAPHISOFT has developed a powerful modeling tool that can handle even the most complex designs. More than a compatibility update – ArchiCAD...
Filed Under: ArchiCAD 17 / ArchiCAD User / BIMComponents.com / Graphisoft / IFC Data Exchange / MORPH / OPEN BIM / Sustainability
Getting into Interiors with ArchiCAD
Tracy Stone, of Tracy A. Stone Architect has been working with ArchiCAD for many years. She has shared her design vision on projects both as an architect and instructor. Most recently, she employed the tools within ArchiCAD v15 & 16 on an interior design project in which she was asked to convert a warehouse space located...
GRAPHISOFT Sponsors Integrative Design Workshop
GRAPHISOFT is proud to be a sponsor of an upcoming event in Austin, TX on May 9th. The event, presented by AIA Austin, in connection with ARCHITECT magazine, offers a workshop that focuses on integrative design. Design standards and procedures can often become cluttered with redundant and inefficient systems when handled through sequential and discreet steps...
ArchiCAD Designed Buildings Earn ArchDaily Building of the Year Awards
GRAPHISOFT is proud to announce an honor achieved by Portuguese architects competing in the annual ArchDaily Building of the Year Awards. The designs made using ArchiCAD finished with high marks in the competition. In the Hotels and Restaurants category, Luis Rebelo de Andrade and Diogo Aguiar won the ArchDaily Building of the Year Award for...
GRAPHISOFT Continues Support of Open BIM with Industry Certifications
ArchiCAD Receives IFC Certification 2.0, Passes buildingSMART alliance 2013 COBie Challenge GRAPHISOFT reached two important milestones in its support for Open BIM. ArchiCAD has successfully passed both IFC Coordination View 2.0 (Certification 2.0) and the buildingSMART alliance 2013 COBie Challenge. GRAPHISOFT first joined forces with buildingSMART® International and several leading software vendors to launch a global program...
BIMx Mobile – it just keeps getting better
BIMx mobile for iOS and Android devices has been upgraded, with the addition of several new features. The features of real-time 3D cutaway, improved rendering and increased performance further enhance BIMx as a cutting-edge communication and presentation tool for BIM projects. Real-time 3D Cutaway lets a user create a floor plan-like overview of the BIM...
Filed Under: ArchiCAD User / BIMx
Taking on the 2030 Challenge – Starting at “Z” (for zHome)
The Northwestern section of the United States has earned a reputation for encouraging “green” building. For example, the mayor of Seattle, WA joined the mayors of Miami, Chicago and Albuquerque to present a resolution to the U.S. Conference of Mayors in May 2006 to adopt the 2030 Challenge. While the 2030 Challenge stipulates that buildings...
Filed Under: 2030 Challenge / ArchiCAD User / Energy Efficiency / Green Projects / Net Zero / Sustainability
Get a Winning Workflow – ArchiCAD in Practice
There are many ways to integrate BIM into a successful design and documentation workflow and process – one method in particular from an award winning firm will be the focus of an AIA San Francisco event. San Francisco based ArchiCAD firm, Walker Warner Architects have completed more than 200 projects in several different parts of the...
Think you can’t construct with ArchiCAD? Meet Mota-Engil
The next GRAPHISOFT online seminar is scheduled for March 19th, featuring Mota-Engil, a Top 30 ranked European construction company. You read that right – CONSTRUCTION company. Mota-Engil will discuss and demonstrate the ways in which the firm implemented BIM using ArchiCAD in their construction practice. For the Mota-Engil Group, BIM is an integrated process that...
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