11 & 11 | Calgary mixed use tower

December 22, 2016

This was a project I helped with Rendering and adding intelligence to a Window Wall system. Window Walls are difficult to do in Revit without custom family building since the Curtain Wall tool is centric to identifying individual panels and mullions instead of a panel module of the two.

The custom family I built enabled the team to have an intelligent window wall family that could be typed to the manufacturing specifications and continue iterations of design with the quantities of each automatically appearing on a sheet schedule. This was especially useful for this project that was budget conscious and going through many series of estimations.

In addition to adding intelligence to the BIM environment, this was one of the first projects I played with Esncape on. Enscape is a real time render engine that loads within Revit and allows for change on the fly renderings.

Robson Square | UBC Student Entrance

February 22, 2016

University of British Columbia has one of the most interesting sites in the city of Vancouver, right in the middle of downtown at the most public square in the community - Robson Square. The site is incredibly contentious, with many parties having a say in what happens on the land.

I had the pleasure of working with Designer, Kim Glauber and Project Architect, Doug Hamming; both of whom had been on the project a couple of years before I came along. The project needed to produce a set of schematic drawings to go another round of public engagement sessions and I was given the opportunity to help make this a Revit project.

Interestingly, there was a surveying company in town that had lidar scanned the site and covered the point cloud into an IFC model that I was then able to bring into Revit. I used a deductive modeling approach to capturing the glazing system in Revit so the glass box could have a parametric relationship (hosted by reference planes) between the complex primary structure.

Kim, was crucial in the BIM at the Human Scale research to figuring out the spherical output from 3DSMax and made this one of the first projects at Stantec to be showcased in mobile Virtual Reality.

This project was a great showcase of modeling approach and was selected as a Case Study Project to present at the 2016 North American RTC Conference in Phoenix, Arizona.

Stantec Tower | mixed use

December 22, 2015

This was a multi-office project between Vancouver, Edmonton, Victoria, Boston, Calgary and Toronto that involved all disciplines of Stantec. As Stantec's new headquarters building, it was an honorable project to participate on that pushed the boundary in every way. To make things even more complicated, Dialogue was the Prime Consultent for the Parkades that connected the entire city center and tunnels underneath the towers and arena together which added another layer of coordination on top of general building performance.

As a Revit project, I was brought on to lead the the BIM Management for the project as it transitioned into Construction Documents from Design Development. The previous management was relieved of their oversight after the project experienced poor performance. I broke up the many models and optimized them for loading time with worksets and different models for heavy annotation portions of the documentation. The project transitioned from Revit Server to BIM360 Teams and even leveraged Stantec's shiny new datacenter for remote users loggin in via Citrix.

From the fruits of labor the BIM at the Human Scale R&D, we were able to showcase the Spherecase immersive rendering workflow to the client. Although they did try using the cardboard VR viewers, they preferred just a portal view on the iPad. Very much a win for the spherical rendering output.

Click the above image to check out the spherical VR

I helped manage the models, model complex architecture, render, BOMA, area calculations, quantity take off and documentation.

Brentwood Phase One | renovation

April 22, 2015

This project was in many ways, my introduction to Stantec. This project had been ongoing for nearly two years when I joined and the Revit environment was one of the worst ones I had ever seen. It was a huge project, which is always hard to do "right" in Revit but worse, the entire project was in one Revit model. Over forty thousand people hours had already been put into model and attempting to optimize proved to be my primary goal.

I ended up remolding many of the complex facades and sectional geometry to help with the detailing effort. Ultimately, I made use of the Enterprise Agreement between Autodesk and Stantec and commissioned the first ever Autodesk Project review for Stantec. This was a great introduction into the process of Autodesk enterprise service options and what could be done for a project.

Ultimately, the project got patched as best as it could but limped to the finish line going from Revit Server, to the main network hosting and breaking out as much of the work as possible. As for the architectural efforts, I modeled parkade ramps, glazing and performed renders with Autodesk's A360 Cloud.

Ohio State University Cancer Hospital

January 22, 2011

In my time with Equipment Collaborative, I was the BIM Manger and digital medium between their equipment planning database in Access and our delivery platform, Revit. My work consisted of making and refining many manufacturing assets into light weight Revit families that were quantifiable, useful for planning and looked good enough for rendering purposes in hospital user meetings.

It was during my time here that my interest in Virtual Reality began and many of these families where the first assets used in attempting to run real time graphics with WorldVIZ's product, Vizard.

KAUST | Laser Labs & Clean Rooms

June 21, 2008

While at HOK, there was one huge project that many people worked on... King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. This was HOK's first Revit project and it spanned over five offices with many external consultants.

This particular project focused on a few of the custom laser laboratories that were being specified for custom research projects. I worked with a turn key consultant for the custom fabrication of the laboratory equipment and modeled it and all of the equipment's required support (gas, air, liquids and water) to digitally coordinate the very complicated spaces.

It was on this work that I cut my teeth with Construction Document drawing and leveraged many of the advantages of Revit with BIM delivery. As an introduction to detailing design, I couldn't have asked for a more compliated or better project to learn on.

NASA Johnson Space Center | CAIL 21

December 22, 2007

My first project out of school and my first project in Revit. Learned a lot of things on this project and was the sole technician for delivering it up to Construction Documents. I had great leaderships from two senior architects who eventually ended up learning some Revit from me during the duration of the project.

For a Revit project, in 2007, this was a difficult shape to detail a 60s era Army Corp of Engineers building that was essentially a prefabricated concrete, circular, warehouse for a humongous engine that powered the centrifuge that tested astronauts ability to hand intense g-force loads on their bodies. The make over on the building was intending to make a rocket study facility with a large computer datacenter to simulate rocket performance.

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