Top Three Takeaways

Design & Modeling Software

Software for REBE Students

Software for REBE Students

How do you get all this goodness?

Sketchup – Academic Link- $55

Revit – Academic Link - Free

Chief Architect - Academic Link – Free Spring Quarter Only

Procore – Training Link – Email Request [email protected]

Smart Sheets - Email Request [email protected]

Bluebeam - Email Request [email protected]

On Screen Takeoff - Email Request [email protected] Competition Team Only (CTO)

RS Means Online – Free Trail Link - Email Request [email protected] (CTO)

Powerproject – Email Request [email protected] (CTO)

History of the Built Environment

• For personal use • Shelters • Rituals

Neolithic Period – 10,000 BC to 2000 BC

Neolithic Period

• Local materials and labor • Primitive means and methods • Unskilled craft • Organized design and construction

Copper and Bronze Age – 3,300 BC to 700 BC

• Egyptians o Professional labor,

respected o Drawings on clay tablets o Primitive technology o Slave labor

Copper and Bronze Age

• Greeks – 800 BC to 146 BC o Stone columns and lintels o Pulleys, jibs and cranes o Survey skills o Recognition of the

architect o Skilled labor

Romans - 753 BC to 1453 AD • 100 ton cranes

• Advanced building technologies

• Trade guilds

• Slaves

• Speed of construction

• Social and economic drivers

• Organization of Labor

• Hydraulic lime mortar

• Concrete

• Arches

• Infrastructure

Romans

Dark Ages – Western Europe - 500 to 1500 AD

• Loss of knowledge

• Loss of organized labor

• Religion as a unifying labor element

• Defensive

• Feudal

Byzantine – 330 to 1453 AD

• Influences from outside Western Europe

• Religious Architecture

• Massive masonry construction

Medieval – 5th to 15th Century

• Brick, stone

• Master crafts with apprenticeship

• Paid, skilled labor

• Fortifications and religious buildings

Medieval

• drawings on parchment or tracing floor

• Pile driver around 1500

• Tall spaces,

• Thin walls,

• Flying buttresses

Romanesque – 6th to 10th century

• Barrels and arches

• Tall spaces

• Master crafts with apprenticeship

• Small openings

• Massive structures

Gothic - 11th to 15th century • Tall spaces, large openings

• Church as patron

• Master crafts with apprenticeship

• Flying Buttresses

• Delicate structures

• Water powered timber mills

• Fired bricks, standards for size

• Early use of iron

• Rebirth of Architect, classical design

• Guilds of paid craftsmen

• Patrons from the mercantile class

The Renaissance – 14th to 16th century

Renaissance Age of the Architect as Master

• Leonardo Da Vinci

• Michelangelo

• Bramante

• Palladio

• Form, balance, symmetry

• Rebirth of the classics

Renaissance

Architect as Master Builder –

Brunelleschi

• Architect-Clock maker

• Largest masonry dome

• Integrated approach to design and construction

• Form, balance, symmetry

The Duomo – 1436 Brunelleschi

Baroque – 16th century Architecture of Excess

• Expressing the triumph of the Catholic church and the absolute State

• Borromini

• Bernini

Age of Enlightenment

• 17th century

o Christopher Wren

“If anyone calls, I’m designing St. Paul’s”

o Plate glass

o Plumb bob

o squares

o level

o drafting compass

The New Democracy • 18th century

o Cast/wrought Iron hangers, columns, machine cut nails

o Imported materials

o Water power

o Thomas Jefferson, Monticello

o Federal Style

o L’ Enphant and the plan for the city of Washington

19th century o Steel,

o Transportation

o Engines

o Large capital projects

o Arts and Crafts

o City of Denver - 1858

AIA 1857 – elevates the profession

o 1889 – Louise Bethune, 1st woman architect in AIA

o 1888 Standardized contracts

o University of Denver 1864

Industrial Revolution

• Mass production • Decorative architecture • Steel wire • Bessemer steel • Engineering • AGC 1918

20th century - divergence

• Skyscrapers • Curtain wall • Life Safety Codes • Age of Associations • Separation of Services • Spearin Doctrine • Unions • Davis Bacon • Job Safety • Adversarial relationships • CAD

Notable 20th C. Architecture • Falling Waters • The Empire State Building • The Seagram’s Building • Sydney Opera House • Bauhaus • Modernism • Post Modernism • De-constructivism

21st C. Architecture • Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Thom Mayne • China, Middle East as hotspots • Sustainability • Materials sciences • Intelligent Buildings • Virtual Design and Construction

The Design and Construction industry has fallen behind all other industries except agriculture in its investment in and implementation of technology NIBS

21st c. (just getting there)

Tools of the trade

Stick in the dirt CAD to BIM to VDC

T Square, mylar, plastic leads, Sepias, wash-off’s

Etch-a-sketch, graphite

Ink on linen

Lead on parchment

Design Evolution

Scratches on slate

Tools of the Trade

Kneaded Erasers

Blueprints

Labor Intensive

Blue Lines - Reproduced

Early CAD

Black Lines - Printed

Visualization, Problem Solving Tools

Building Models with Intelligent Information

BIM/Virtual Design and Construction

• Commissioning • Operations • Maintenance • Disaster planning • Asset management • Facility management • Big Data

• Work Plan • Site logistics • Field mobility • Quality assurance • Quality control • Fabrication • Automation

• Constructability • Coordination • Quantity take-off • Scheduling • Safety Planning

• Execution Plans • Level of Detail • Visualizations • Analytics • Plans/Specs

Leverage of Mobile Apps