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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
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...
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...
Master More than Glitz. Produce BIM that Wows.
In cinematic terms – special effects can impress – but if the plot is poorly constructed or otherwise not plausible, the reviews can ruin a movie’s chances at box office success. Being able to develop a 4D schedule and 5D estimate is very powerful and illustrates a domain-expertise that resonates with owners – but it...
Filed Under: Seminar
Design Biennial Boston
In just a couple of weeks, the Boston Society of Architects and pinkcomma gallery are combining their efforts to showcase local firms and their designers at the third Design Biennial Boston exhibition. GRAPHISOFT is a supporting sponsor of the juried exhibition which displays new and important design leaders in the Greater Boston area. BSA Space will host the designs...
Award Winning Designs Examined at Key Client Conference
GRAPHISOFT Hosts 2012 Worldwide Key Client Conference This past fall, GRAPHISOFT invited a select group to attend the Key Client Conference at the company headquarters in Budapest, Hungary. The conference served as a platform in which GRAPHISOFT’s top 100 clients could hear about the company’s strategic plans. The event also allowed an opportunity to network...
Crankhouse, by Hometta – Now in Cookie Form!
Remember that Gingerbread auction we told you about? The auction raised almost $1,800 to benefit the CRDC in Boston and many lucky bidders now have one-of-a-kind holiday sweets to decorate their table. One of those lucky bidders was our own National Marketing Director, Marianne Sims. Sims won the gingerbread house cleverly created by over,under. Based on an...
Monson Charrette Part 1 – BIM Server and Collective Design
At the 2012 Architecture Boston Expo, GRAPHISOFT with the Community Design Resource Center of Boston (CDRC) and the Western Massachusetts Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (WMAIA), held a design charrette to focus on ways to assist the town of Monson, MA in recovering from a local natural disaster. Since I was at ABX,...
Filed Under: ArchiCAD 16 / BIM Server / Cloud Computing / Collaboration / Events / Trade Shows / Value of BIM
Boston Architects Bake Up Sweet Support for the CDRC
Gingerbread houses are synonymous with the holiday season – and this year the traditional cookie house sweetens the deal for a fundraising event. The Boston Society of Architects (BSA) is hosting an auction of some sugary structures made of the gingery substance. Proceeds will benefit the Community Design Resource Center of Boston (CDRC). Local designers and architects – including...
Two Hammers in a Row
Product of the Year – ArchiCAD 16 Exciting news for GRAPHISOFT from the Construction Computing Awards - our BIM software, ArchiCAD 16, has won the Product of the Year award for the second year in a row. But that’s not all! GRAPHISOFT also took home awards for BIM Product of the Year for ArchiCAD 16, Mobile Product of...
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