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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
Reach for the EcoDesigner STAR Now
The first software to incorporate standard-compliant energy analysis into a familiar BIM work environment – EcoDesigner STAR – will be made available for a public beta trial. GRAPHISOFT® developed EcoDesigner STAR to help architects design the most energy-efficient buildings by accessing reliable energy analysis data from the moment early concepts are created. EcoDesigner STAR is based on...
ArchiCAD 15 is #4 on Residential Design + Build’s Top 100 Product List
Over the past twelve months, the readers of Residential Design + Build magazine have asked its editors about products featured in the magazine. The most requested products are listed every December in the order of popularity. This year, ArchiCAD 15 was ranked 4th on the list (page 20). ArchiCAD 15 was GRAPHISOFT’s BIM software version...
ABC, easy as 1,2,3 with GRAPHISOFT’s BIM Server
The ABC Green Home has opened, to much ado. But it is not about nothing. The project is quite the opposite. Something revolutionary that is shattering a perception that it costs more and is more difficult to build green. And it did so beginning with the use of GRAPHISOFT’s BIM Server during the design phase....
Chicago Firm Relies on ArchiCAD for Award Winning Health Center Design
The firm of Manske Dieckmann Thompson (MDT) has received accolades for work on the new PCC Austin Family Health Center in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, a LEED-Gold, 18,000+ square foot Federally Qualified Community Health Center. Built on a site adjacent to the CTA Green Line acquired from the City of Chicago, the building...
Filed Under: ArchiCAD User / LEED
ArchiCAD Provides Integration Foundation for UCSF Medical Center
A project that has been thought about, designed and worked on for more than two years now is getting some well-deserved attention for the way it has focused on a very lofty goal: securing Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold rating for an 878,000-sq-ft hospital complex. Even before the December 2010 groundbreaking for the massive...
Filed Under: ArchiCAD User / Graphisoft / Green Projects / LEED / Notable ArchiCAD Users / Sustainability
Engage at Ecobuild 2011
In two weeks, EcoBuild America 2011 begins at the Washington, D.C. Convention Center providing a wide array of exhibits, user sessions and presentations from leaders in the industry. The convention is an ideal gathering of architects, designers and firms discussing strategies and technologies to build faster, smarter and more sustainably. Designed to assist AEC professionals in ways...
Filed Under: AIA CEU Credit / ArchiCAD User / Events / Graphisoft / Green Projects / LEED / Sustainability
Produce PassivHaus in ArchiCAD
With six projects featured on the recent NESEA Open House Tour, Portland, ME based Kaplan Thompson Architects (KTA) is fulfilling its mission to create and design buildings that are “Beautiful, Attainable, Sustainable”. We’ve chosen to highlight two of the projects KTA is designing, in light of the focus on sustainability this week’s Greenbuild show in Toronto provides. These two...
Filed Under: ArchiCAD 15 / ArchiCAD User / Graphisoft / Green Projects / LEED / PassivHaus / Sustainability / Unique Project
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